Shooting Fish - No Barrell

[dockmurgw]

I just posted this video on another thread, but thought I would start a new one rather than have it lost in another thread. I found it online, and I'm on a different end of the lake, but its the same. This is the big event for many of us in Vermont, shooting fish in Lake Champlain. I have used everything from my 30 06 deer rifle to a 44 mag revolver...it's an absolute ball. Shooting is near the end of the video.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6FnzroUBE[/ame]

 

[nachogrande]

SO IT IS REAL

Back in the 80's I read a newspaper article about Vermonters being allowed to shoot fish for a limited "season". It didn't specify just how deep/shallow you should submerge the barrel. Long story short, I ended up with a shorter barrel on my Mossberg, & a good laugh for my "buds" at my expense.

 

[jscheck]

I have officially seen it all! lol

 

[ditrina]

Then there is the Florida, Louisiana way..

 

[Rustyt1953]

For you, Sal:

 

[Watchdog]

Then there is the Florida, Louisiana way..

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Funny little gif, but just to keep things on the up and up here, let's mention that blast fishing is highly illegal in Florida and Louisiana. And probably anywhere else in the U.S. I've no doubt it happens, though.

 

[Chukar60]

I used to shoot carp with a bow in the local lakes and rivers. Very fun and quite challenging. Having to allow for light deflection at different depths and how low to hold was something you just developed a sense for.
Can't say I ever tried "shooting" fish with a gun.
As the older gent said "this is what we grew up with"

 

[Leslie Sapp]

It's illegal now, but this was once common in the clear rivers and streams here in North Florida. My dad used the 7.7 Arisika he brought back from the Pacific.

At a later date, but still probably well past the statute of limitations on such offenses, my brothers and I would harvest mullet with a shotgun. We'd catch a whole school of them feeding on the surface with their noses out of the water, kneel down and send a load of 7 1/2's across the school. After that, we'd put on our masks and snorkels and go pick up the dead.

 

[misswired]

A blasting cord with knots tied closely might have worked in some of those backwoods streams? ....a boom for every knot, somewhere in the deep woods???

 

[DeathGrip]

Then there is the Florida, Louisiana way..

That gif stops short and we don't get to see what the heck happened to the second stick that he lit and held on to.

Maybe my eyes are wrong?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Then there is the Florida, Louisiana way..

On a whim, I showed this to Logan and he said it's from the Xbox game "Red Dead Redemption 2".

Kids.

 

[Ranger17]

I used to shoot carp with a bow in the local lakes and rivers. Very fun and quite challenging. Having to allow for light deflection at different depths and how low to hold was something you just developed a sense for.
Can't say I ever tried "shooting" fish with a gun.
As the older gent said "this is what we grew up with"

Yep bowfishing is a blast. I enjoy it at daytime but it really gets fun at night. Trolling around with the lights aimed into the waters not only gives a cool perspective for shooting but one can also see game fish (not legal to shoot) in their habitat. That can be neat to view.

 

[rags]

Then there is the Florida, Louisiana way..

Funny little gif!

 

[ladder13]

Then there is the Florida, Louisiana way..

Only thing better would be a bump stock

 

[nachogrande]

THE FLORIDA WAY

That gif stops short and we don't get to see what the heck happened to the second stick that he lit and held on to.

Maybe my eyes are wrong?

Light the dynamite & throw the matches.

 

[vonn]

Saw a few grenades tossed in RVN in attempting to get fish,didn't see any fish!

 

[Tom S.]

Saw a few grenades tossed in RVN in attempting to get fish,didn't see any fish!

I heard lots of stories about fishing in Nam with grenades. One of the stories was told to me a guy in the brown water navy stationed on a PBR. He said what floated up wasn't anything he'd ever want to eat, but the Vietnamese were happy to scoop up everything they could get.

 

[BigBill]

Heard about this before. This is a sport? Do you eat the fish you kill?

 

[dockmurgw]

Heard about this before. This is a sport? Do you eat the fish you kill?

Yup, sure is, and a fun one to...at least fun for me. I believe it's the only place in the country where shooting fish is legal, and its only in Lake Champlain. Good chance to get the cob webs out of guns that normally sit, if it goes bang it can be used. I try not to hit the fish, just stun them. The ones I hit go home and get filleted, if its just stunned I let it come to and swim off. I have even seen tree stands set up in the flooded woods so that the shooter can look straight down and not have to deal with the glare on the water. I remember when my son was a squirt, him and his buddies would grab the rifles, head out with boat and be gone all day. End of the day they would come back with the boat loaded. Sure ate a lot of pike in those days.

 

[steelslaver]

I have heard that a 30 caliber bullet in a mountain stream pool equals brookies for breakfast.