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#343934 - 04/02/07 03:31 AM what do they mean by bow?
robosimono Offline
Alevin

Registered: 04/02/07
Posts: 10
Loc: cheney, wa
Hi, i have been fishing on and off for most of my life, but the fishing lingo started and ended with "now that there, kid, is a fish". So as i am reading the WL.com reports i see people refering to a type of fish as "bows" so I'm wondering what they are talking about.

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#343942 - 04/02/07 08:05 AM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: robosimono]
Lotech Joe Offline
Fry

Registered: 10/27/06
Posts: 32
Loc: Liberty Lake, WA.
Rainbows I'm guessing.
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#343947 - 04/02/07 09:52 AM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: Lotech Joe]
Knucklebustersonly Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 03/07/06
Posts: 2561
Loc: WA
rainbows as in rainbow trout....

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#344045 - 04/02/07 02:36 PM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: Knucklebustersonly]
robosimono Offline
Alevin

Registered: 04/02/07
Posts: 10
Loc: cheney, wa
thanks. isn't there also a "bowfish", or is this a figment of my imagination?

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#344152 - 04/02/07 07:34 PM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: robosimono]
Knucklebustersonly Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 03/07/06
Posts: 2561
Loc: WA
There is a fish called a bowfish, but they aren't present really in Washington lakes...

Bow: Rainbow in washington

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#344283 - 04/03/07 06:43 AM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: Knucklebustersonly]
Bill G Offline
Juvenille at Sea

Registered: 03/13/06
Posts: 129
Loc: Buckley Wa.
It's not bowfish it's bowfin and they are in the Mississippi drainage. I wonder why they don't call them Rains instead, but that sounds just as bad. Lets just say trout.
Bill

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#344288 - 04/03/07 09:30 AM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: robosimono]
Raffpap Offline
Parr

Registered: 02/14/07
Posts: 42
I'm one of those guys who often uses slang, ie bows for rainbows, cutts or cutties for cutthroat, brookies for brook trout (actually a char, not a trout). Sorry for the confusion but old habits die hard!

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#344335 - 04/03/07 01:14 PM Re: what do they mean by bow? [Re: Bill G]
j 7 Offline
Repeat Spawner

Registered: 02/09/07
Posts: 1422
Loc: Your monitor
 Originally Posted By: Bill G
It's not bowfish it's bowfin and they are in the Mississippi drainage.
Bill


Bill,

Bowfin are in the Great Lakes drainage as well and they call them "dogfish". When I lived in Michigan we used to catch them when we were bass fisshing or we would shoot them them when we were bow fishing for carp. I wish I had some pictures of those ugly things. They have a couple of rows of nasty sharp teeth.
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