Bowfishing - homemade reels, shafts, heads & tips - Let see some pics!

[Lee Slikkers]

OK folks, still not quite Bowfishing season here but I was hoping maybe we couple get a bunch of pics of what some of you use and have made that works well for you.  (bows too)

Thanks!

[seabass]

Lee,i don't have pics.i am a bowfishing fool.i stalk them on the river with no boat.nothing better than getting in there with them.one of the best things that i have bought for this is the traditional strap on mount made by great northern.you can by one on three rivers website.i put it on all of my bows.i use a spool type reel.nothing fancy,i hand line the fish in.no crank.hope this helps.get in there and get them,Steve

[seabass]

i forgot to add.i did post a handmade cane shaft with fire hardened forshaft with bamboo skewer tined bowfishing arrow.it would be in the arrow thread.

[Lee Slikkers]

Steve, are you referring to the oak/bamboo points head or the sweet-a$$ gator bone head?  Excellent stuff...I am a complete novice to bowfishing and am basically searching for any info/help/tips I can on this site on the subject.

Thanks!

[bubby]

Lee i got this in a trade from prarie bowyer, them my son looked at it and went home and turned one on his lathe, i'm a novice bow fisher as well but that's gonna change this year, Bub

[Lee Slikkers]

Thanks Bub, that is the stuff I was hoping to see...

I don't have a lathe but my grandfather does I would imagine he'd give me a quick lesson and let me try my hand on it.  I had some old larger Osage cut-offs that I was hoping to make a spool like that from but I just cut up some sections and they have drying/splits running through the entire length.  Maybe if I hollow out the center section enough I could squeak by...have to look closer at them I guess.

Thanks again.

[bubby]

you can allways glue up some pieces of scrap boards with tb3, or maybe pm prarie bowyer and maybe make a trade,  Bub

[Auggie]

Prarie bowyer makes  some sweet ones,and he's awesome to trade with!

[seabass]

Lee,my head was the cane shaft with fire hardened oak foreshaft.used bamboo skewers for tines.i need me one of those nice turned spools.those are sweet.

[Gaur]

I was thinking of making spool from some of the big diameter bamboo we have here.  also thinking of making fish points with bone.

[Lee Slikkers]

I was thinking of making spool from some of the big diameter bamboo we have here.  also thinking of making fish points with bone.

Hey Bud!

I obviously don't have any boo here with a diameter like that in MI but I am thinking bone points myself...have a huge cow femur I air/sun dried last summer and an considering as a candidate.

[Gaur]

I could send you a piece of boo.  I thought it would be cool to leave the node core and have that on the outside. Then sand it out a bit like the piece of wood someone showed on this thread.  There are lots of buffalo bones kicking around where I get my horns.  Horns scraps would make nice points too.

[Lee Slikkers]

That would be really cool bit I can't even imagine what the cost of shipping a chuck of boo here would run...

(Waterbuff) Horn, hmmm...wonder where on earth I could find a piece of that stuff?  LOL...excellent (and pretty) idea! 

[Bevan R.]

You can get 6" bamboo from the place I get rattan.

[Gaur]

I don't think a 3" wide piece with the node would run that much.  Anyway I'll be coming home in June and could ship it from MN.