Yes a lot are prolly the same fish. Not like they roll into a marsh pond on the incoming feed and then swim the outgoing out, pack up their bags and swim another mile away for the fun of it then repeat life.

You ever watched a group of fish before and after they get tan over by an airboat or tower boat a few times? They start acting different. Rinse and repeat this process and you will change their behavior.

Just because this topic got lit up in the fly fishing section and everything was deleted, I would not expect different results here.

 

Yep
You can see the tan lines clearly

 

Thanks for your reply and that was not my post to muddy up this is 👍😎 nothing below the belt !this isnt ment to stir up chit its for a honest assessment/and to educate. 🤔 as i dont feel your seeing the same fish maybe to much time im the sun ,😋 butt as i said im here to learn i love all methods of fishing !and Eager-to-Learn!

 

You ever seen the old tourney guys mark a school of fish with a popping cork? They do this because yes they do move around some, but they do not move very far and can spot the cork. The fish might fall out on the outgoing tide, but they normally come right back up with it as well.

 

This is just plain dumb. Lets assume for a minute that fish X came into Pond A to feed or hang out on the high tide. Along comes Joe Bowfisher with his spotlights. Fish X gets spooked and as the OP suggests scoots out of that pond. Well fish X may not come back into Pond A on the next high tide but he IS going into some pond and yes he is going to be more cautious. So stop trying to justify bow fishing as to not having an impact on fish behavior. If you want to bow fish and its legal then that's up to you but stop trying to say it doesn't impact fish behavior. Thats just silly.

Look at it this way. If bow fishing is so sporting and doesn't impact the fish behavior then why don't they do it during the day time instead of spotlighting them at night????

 

I mean come on you really feel the fish you're flipping on Are the some ones from last tide ?

Seems like you're trying to make a statement rather than ask a question but I'll pretend you're serious and treat it like a question. These slot fish do not move very far. Just look at tagged redfish recapture locations vs where the fish were tagged and released. Back when Louisiana had a tagging program we would see fish recaptured in the same area weeks or months after tagging.

 

Good to know. Love to catch one of those CCA tagged reds…. Lol.

 

I wasn't trying to say Bow fishing didn't impact the fishing ,we All know it does! I was trying to figure out if last nights fish that would be the spooked fish ,was still holding in that area, or followed the bait and moved on down the river at tide change thats all !

I know Trout will come down the river in schools,if you want to keep catching them you follow them ,but the next day you may not do as well so i figured they moved on up the river/ Intracoastal Waterway....

I guess my thinking also comes from beach seining ,we would start way south just say st Augustine area ,and in a months time we would be off Fernandina. because we had to follow the fish ,i guess Reds are more permanent?

 

I guess my thinking also comes from beach seining ,we would start way south just say st Augustine area ,and in a months time we would be off Fernandina. because we had to follow the fish

Did you ever consider that maybe you had to chase the fish because, well, you were chasing them out of the area you were netting...?

 

Here in Louisiana I can guarantee that a lot of the fish hold in marsh ponds day after day/night after night. Most of the ponds in the marsh being sight fished, either with rod or bow, hold enough water that the the fish can still remain in them at low tide. You mentioned St. Augustine and that may well explain some of your confusion. You guys get 6 foot tide swings, we don't get that unless there's a hurricane, here a 2 foot swing between high and low is considered huge, so the fish don't have to leave the ponds/flats. .Juvenile redfish don't move very far here. Typically you can catch fish in these ponds regardless of tide level (though moving water helps the bite) because the fish stay. I'll also repeat "**** Bowfishing"

 

Fuc

**** BOWFISHING

 

Interested point about tide swing 👍thanks ...

 

To the OP. Please answer my question. I'll ask again. If bow fishing is so sporting why don't you do it during the day instead of spotlighting?

 

FORMER bow fisher here… I really enjoyed bow fishing during the day when I bowfished areas that had good water quality. Changed the game up enough to “feel” different and was more challenging. Never shot reds though. Not legal. Just gar, carp, tilapia, few others…

I really enjoyed it when I was younger. I don’t think I’d enjoy it as much now and haven’t been in 10+ years.

 

Should I weigh in on this?

 

@ifsteve
I didnt start this post to fight about Bowfishing its ment to learn about red fish behavior!

I didnt respond to you because every reply you make you act like you got a burr under your saddle!

And that reply about why they dont day time shoot is plum crazy ,they kill truck loads of fish in day time specially carp and use them as fertilizer mostly !

As ive said before i join to help others and learn my self ,lets try to be nice to one another!🙏👍

 

^^^^ No its normal for them to travel/migrate nothing to do with us seining for them .....infact at the end of season its normal to load up on blue fish and Gaff tops ,as the whitting move out,we are on American beach by that time off Amelia Island.....

whitting spawn in spring time moving inshore into the surf ....

I hate a blue fish they eat the durn net up ,spend the next day fixing it ....

We made one haul on south side of Mayport jettys i never in my life seen so many gaff tops ,and i mean 4-5 ponders , we actually turn the lead line loose to roll them out and still landed over two trucks loads ,we loaded a bunch of them up and cleaned them at fish house and sold the meat ,back then you did what you had to to make a dollar ,we also cleaned a bunch of bluefish for a fish fry....

 

Bow fishing is a sore subject for a lot of NOVA snakehead fishermen. They decimate areas most nights and the snakehead population is down because of them. They wreck the rod and reel spots. There is no way these guys eat all the fish they kill.

I really dislike most bow fishermen because of the ones that over harvest.

 

Post # 22 I didnt start this post to fight about Bowfishing its ment to learn about red fish behavior!

 

Ok lets not talk bowfishing. Lets just talk fish behavior. Spotlighting a redfish effs up their behavior. Period.

 

Aren’t snakeheads one of the most invasive fish in the US?

 

^^^^^^^; Finally someone with more than two active Brain cells ,yes you are correct !

And theres no such thing as over kill with carp or snakeheads .....they will never weed them out !
Just like the Burmese pythons In everglades!a normal python lays around 40 eggs this last record python18'-9" can lay up to 120plus eggs

And no they dont eat all they shoot most carp ect...are used as fertilizer! But there are recipes for several like the Buffalo and Gars ....

 

Fun fact ...Did you know one of your most idolized fly fisherman was a awesome archery guy also ,taught others to shoot he was really good just like with the fly rod ! I think he had a couple shows on trad but it didnt really take off ....

 

I wouldn’t begrudge a guy who shot 1-2 to eat, but this type of activity is not sportsman like at all:

 

You need to learn about invasive species!thats biggest issue with bowfish haters ,they have very little knowledge about whats really going on !

 

Twice Now! this is a double post !

 

Dude, don’t go down that rabbit hole. The Sudies have been beat into the ground in my area about snakehead. They have had no negative effect on the eco system. They are not the Frankinfish that they were made out to be.

if YOU really want to learn about where I fish and how snakehead are doing look up VDGIF biologist John Odenkirk. Everything you need to know is there. He is the foremost authority in snakeheads in the US.

 

You are miss informed! And as i have already said this is not about bowfishing it was only listed as pressure on reds get a life Dude!

Stop beating a dead horse geeezzzzz!

Invasive spread
The northern snakehead has been introduced into Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, eastern Europe, Japan, and the United States. Because they are voracious predators that quickly grow and reproduce , they have the potential to outcompete native species, making them a significant ecological threat.?

 

What’s up with all the dumbass posts on MicroSkiffs lately? Are you guys really so bored you have to argue about stupid shit all day? Someone had to say it.

 

You’re still hanging in there so ?😘

 

Its only dumbass post cause silent is right in his reply !to their ""unknowledgeable" replys, yes thats a word ...means lack of knowledge 😁