bowfishing

[calcutta37]

just wodering if anyone here has been bowfishing. i have a brand new parker that i bow hunt whitetails with and was wondering if i could use this bow to shoot fish. mainly to shoot reds in shallow water but would bring it offshore and when someone is reeling in a cobia there is all ways one or two following it so i want to shoot them and then have a big float or buoy to throw in the water after the shot. i know they shoot gators with bows just wondering if i need to buy a bow for bowfishing or can i use my parker?

[longsidelandry]

I think you could use that bow, no reason to have a seperate one. I plan on using mt Matthews to hunt and bowfish.

[Cajun Outdoors]

You can use it as I have a Parker also. It's just not real practical to set it at 70 lbs for bowfishing most of the time. I use an old Darton 45-60lb draw, that I crank down to 45 lbs. IMO you want something that's real easy to draw AND let down.

[LPfishnTIM]

slower is better, you can buy a pse bowfishing rig for $150 the reel sucks, I would replace it with a $80 bowfishing reel that retrieves the arrow and fish faster than hand reeling. a parker compound is too fast unless you use a really old one. 150 fps is plenty quick for bowfishing.