Personally I prefer bowfishing for 10 pound plus largemouth bass. No dadgum carps, they are inedible, but a big bass, filleted out and baked in the oven with ginger can't be beat. Bedding going on soon, so sight bowfishing for fat females over beds is coming real soon. Fry them eggs out of that big ole bow shot bass with some sausage and OJ, best breakfast going.

When I can't find bass easily I just shoot me some crappie or maybe yellow cat at night. Them gars also inedible, not worth the trouble to kill like a big bass, crappie or catfish....yummmeee!

So how does it feel? Somebody that just loves to kill and eat what some others would only catch and release.

Sure there are places where some species of rough fish need controlled. But there are others, places that bring tourists, money and wealth to Texas, where trophy class carp and especially alligator gar should be protected and managed just like any other popular sport species and not killed for the sport of it alone.

To each his own, up to a point. But when killing fish begins to displace the actual sport of fishing, that is the endpoint of the killing, or should be.

Yes, I have bowfished and thoroughly enjoyed it. I support that aspect of the sport, but firmly believe it should be as managed as the rest of the fishery, to the maximum benefit of the user group and the businesses that cater to them.