Practical Bowfishing

Book excerpt: In this new volume expert bowfisherman William Hovey Smith Explores every aspect of the challenging and exciting sport of bowfishing. In a step-by-step fashion, Smith guides the reader through the basics of bowfishing--how to select equipment ranging from bows, arrows, and fish points to tubs, spools and polarizing sunglasses. The author provides a wealth of information on topics such as how to rig a bowfishing boat, hew to find and enter a bowfishing tournament, how to hunt various species whether freshwater species like carp, gar and catfish, saltwater quarry such as shark, mola mola and stingray, or aquatic monsters like alligator gar and paddlefish. Complete and authoritative, this comprehensive book covers every detail of the rapidly growing sport of bowfishing. Stoeger's new