As you can obviously see from the main board, people are of the opinion that as long as bowfishermen aren't illegally taking a lot of fish, they should be left alone. Apparently if the law you're breaking is only broken by a select few, it's not worthy of a look. I've never been terribly impressed with the "it's so rare, I'm not even going to talk about it" argument, as it is just a lazy way to avoid putting forth the effort to have an intelligent discussion...but I don't really want to start a p*ssing contest on the main board. Aside from the "you're shooting an expensive and awesome sport fish for no good reason" that is just my personal opinion, my problem is if you stick an arrow in a 32" fish, what are you going to do? Throw it back? Go find a ranger and tell him to ticket you? Nope, you screwed up and killed a fish you had no business shooting. Toss it back, let it swim away for a few minutes, then go about your business shooting other fish that you can hope are legal. I'd put that right up there with catching a 10 or 11" bass or walleye and throwing it on the bank for the hell of it.
But that's just my opinion I guess. As long as only a couple people are doing that, then it's not worth talking about.
