Night Carping?

[Avid Angler]

How successful are the guys that go out at night bowfishing carp? Is it 20, 30, 40 fish a night?

Avid

[carpshooterdeluxe]

the 5 or 6 nights I got out on a well rigged boat last summer we averaged 100 fish a night. For some guys or certain lakes that can be the norm, but guys just getting into night shooting or guys shooting lakes with less than quality fish/clarity/legal night shooting areas, 20 should be considered good.

[Avid Angler]

Thanks for information.

I think it is a great thing and is another tool to keep populations in check.

I have also heard that good panfish populations (perch especially) will really eat a lot of carp eggs.

I think that is why you see carp populations explode when the panfish numbers get really low.

I think the DNR should stock perch in the lakes they think are overrun with carp. Probaly not a solve all, but a thought.

Avid