bowfishing question!

[spiderbait24]

hi guys, i was just wondering if you guys tie your arrows with the line that comes with the bowfishing pack or do you wack on a swivel and some fishing line?


cheers.

[McNugget]

The line that comes with the pack is best (brick layers line), fishing line isnt as tough and is also a little more dangerous i reckon. It tends to get a memory and twist all the time. I have a mate that got badly cut because he didnt realise it twisted round his hand at the last moment before a shot.
I would think that if fishing line with a swivel was better, that maybe the kit would come with it??
Anyway i hope i helped

[jindydiver]

Danny
DO NOT tie your line to the back of the shaft.
When you release the line gets left behind and forms a loop, this loop is behind the bowstring for the full travel of the string and when the arrow leaves the string it has to come back past the string to follow. When it is doing this it can easily get tangled on the bow string and snag. If it doesn't break it will bring that arrow back at you with almost the same force it left with, except now it is headed for your head.

Some pictures showing what happens
http://www.amsbowfishing.com/information.php?osCsid=96ceea3255f2574b8db24a6f6af 40db1&info_id=6

[Dale Furze]

When I do happen to get the chance to go bow fishing I just shoot the carp with the normal shaft, no strings attached. I have had too many problems with string tangle. Now I just shoot for the head or just behind it, the fish don't swim too far after being hit there;). Most of my carp shooting is done in shallow water so arrow retrieval is fairly easy. If you are shooting down into deeper water I would try the proper spool and line setup.

Dale.

[GOLDGT]

Ha Danny,
When i was bowfishing i found the best way was to run a tight bit of trace line from the tip of the arrow down to the nock end of the arrow then i attached a small swivel to this trace line so it can slide from the front of the arrow to the back when shoot and then attached the main line from the reel to the swivel. That way the fishing line is never near your hands and when the arrow is in flight it pulls the line off the reel from the back of the arrow and not effect flight as much as being tide to the front of the shaft. Hope this makes sence.

Hamish

[spiderbait24]

thanks guys, why would you tie it to the back of the arrow??

im getting those bowfishing arrows, lost my other one.

[GOLDGT]

You want the fishing line to pull from the back of the arrow because if its just tied to the front it will drag the arrow off course and even more so when it hits the water and you add that extra drag.

[HareSplitter]

hey mate, the line that comes with it is fine for things like carp, but ive shot some pretty big carp that have been able to pull the canoe after being spooled and seen some big anough to pull me in if they spoll me :D , so i just went down to got one fishing store and baught some nylon cord 50 m of 3mm its about 300 pound, so i dont think any fish could snap it, also the safest thing to do is to get an ams safety slide they only cost bout 5-7 bucks and they are one of the most important things wen your bow fishing,
good luck

[spiderbait24]

the arrow im getting is the white bowfishing one, were the stirng starts at the top of the arrow and then once you shoot it it slips down the arrow, do you know the one?

[HareSplitter]

yer thats the ams saftey slide, good luck
jono.

[hutcho]

What I have done in the past is get a small high tensile pin and drill through the shaft in front of the nock and inch or so (quite small) then glued in the pin so that about 1/4" (will get the final measurements later)

Then before putting on the fish broad head I got a small large gauge spring that just fits over the shaft, on this spring I put a swivel with a 200-300lb breaking strain.

You tie your fishing line to the swivel and make sure that the line is out the front of your bow, when you shoot, the swivel gets dragged to the end of the line and stops at the pin.

The catch is that I used to use this out of my circa 1989-90 hoyt which was quite slow. not sure if the power of a new bow would be too much for the weakened area around the pin (hence making it as small as possible)