Forum: Rough Fish & Bowfishing

Looking to do some bowfishing and wanted to see if anyone had a suggestions for a lake in the metro area with an abundance of Carp. I know I've seen plenty on Medicine lake - any others you guys can suggest?

Bought a new/used bow to try out at a bow fishing gathering last year, never happened so it sits gathering dust, just wondering if anybody bow fishes and has room for one more?? I will split costs and have boat if needed, no lights, or anything, just a boat. (185 tournament sport) Al

Anyone planning on heading up to Rainey River this April? I thought it only appropriate, since we spent our honeymoon fly fishing trout and our 5 year fishing in the Golf of Mexico, that spend the 10 year sturgeon fishing. Hoping the 15 involves fishing in Alaska.

Caught about 20 cats yesterday (biggest around 22/23 inches, a couple large redhorse, a carp, and a couple walleye up on Horseshoe in a couple hours this morning. Bite started to slow about 9:45 this morning. Caught all on a Lindy Rig with a crawler. Good luck out there!

I hit the St Croix bright an early saturday morning looking for some walleyes. The first spot held a bunch of fish, but the eyes were hard to come by. The sunfish were more than willing to bite though. I worked crawlers and leeches in 15-30 feet of water catching bass, sheepsters, sunfish...

Me and a buddy fished the river this morning for a couple of hours. The action was fairly constant, no more than five minutes between bites. We caught mostly sheep with a few redhorse mixed in and I caught one little walleye that was about 13", my friend caught the smallest rock bass I've ever...

Got a late start on Memorial Day weekend due to having to work on Saturday, but at the end of the work day I was able to have a little have a little fun catching a couple of carp with my hands from a customer's stream that he wanted gone. Finally got up to the cabin late saturday...

I finally did it! Catching a carp on the fly rod has been on my bucket list for about 4 years now. Saturday presented itself with a few hours, some great weather, and a great tip from a passerbyer while fishing lake Hiawatha. He tipped me off on a foot accessible backwater on the mississippi. I...

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Here are the Rules: SPECIES - Only Bowfin (Dogfish) caught in Minnesota waters are used for determining the season's Grand Champion. TOURNAMENT HOURS/SEASON - All daylight hours from ice-out through June 15 each year are open for competition. TOURNAMENT WATERS- All MN bodies of water with...

I can't say that I have ever fished for carp on purpose with a rod and reel but I am thinking about it. Yesterday my son and I walked down to the trap on Howard Lake and there were huge(20lb +) carp swimming all around. What do guys use for bait? I think that it would be fun to hook a few and let...

Brian (Magicstik) and I had made some plans to spend some time chasing bass around the Milaca area that we or I had done well on in the past. Below is a break down of the day. Lake #1 Mille Lacs We got to the lake early at first light just after a few duck hunters. I had been able to put a...

I work in the 8400 tower in the Normandale Lake office park overlooking Normandale Lake. Every morning I look out the window, and when the water is calm, I see a lot of hawgs swimming around. I'm guessing they are probably carp, but I can't be sure from 17 floors up. Since I moved here in April,...

BWCA Trip Report Lance Bainville and I embarked on another BWCA trip last week from Wednesday June 2nd through Sunday June 6th. We planned the trip soon after getting back from our trip last year. We wanted to target Lake Trout this year and we had a few options with heading in at the Moose...

A friend and I were out on Rush Lake yesterday (Rush City, MN north of Cambridge). We found fish in the large shallow bay on the southest side of the lake. Some were spawning in the morning but overall they weren't very active. Water temps were 75-76 in the bay. I'm still not sure if they were...

The carp are in spawn mode in the metro lakes. Dog

Just looking for a few places to try a bit of after work river carp fishing, looking for something on the south side of Mpls perferably. Need to be able to park about a 100 yards or less from the spot. Going to try and get down under the Mendoa bridge and see what's there tonoight or so, but...

A friend and I went out Saturday to Lake Volney down south of New Prague to try carp fishing. We tried this lake once 3 or 4 years ago but were clearly too late in the year. The water temps were about 67 this time out but we found very few carp and didn't see any spawning activity. The cloudy...

From the Pope County Tribune: 5/17/2010 6:59:00 PM Email this article • Print this article Two-day carp bounty offered Attention carp hunters - here's a profitable opportunity - rather than a carp tournament, a carp bounty will be offered. For two nights only: Friday, May 28 and Saturday,...

I really don't spend much open water time at Mille Lacs but what I saw on Saturday seemed a little odd to me. There were spots that we stopped to fish that the slip bobber fishermen out number the the lindy rig fishermen. This was in water that was 25'-29' deep. I really didn't expect to see people...

Was on the lake from 6 to 11:00 yesterday morning with an old friend from college with no luck. We fished 3 different spots that all had around 10 boats on each spot. We worked anywhere from 8 FOW out to 30. Tried multiple live sets ups as well as pulling cranks without even a bite. We never...

The weather did not deter us at all. We were loaded up by 11:00 and on our way out to the launch. We got to the launch and dropped in the boat and started heading for the campsite Saturday around 11:30 a.m. The wind was howling and the sun showed it self at random. Besides the wind the day turned...

Me and a buddy left from Mississippi County park (stearns county) and shot up the Mississippi 8 miles rite above 7 islands. We stopped at one of my usual spots where a smaller tributary comes in. It is usually 6-8' deep with plenty of current, not this year. The tributary was all but dried up along...

Just bought a new used bow for bowfishing, haven't done this for many years but looking to get out a few times, so if anybody has a opening for one more, maybe give me a shout. Not sure whether by boat or long the shore is better but looking to try whatever works. Also anybody know if during...

Does anyone know what water temp carp spawn at, have they already spawned this year?

From Sam Cook's blog..... Fish diversity spices St. Louis River outing today I was out on the St. Louis River all morning today with crews from the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources. They were checking trap nets for muskies as part of a muskie research effort. But the...