Bowfishing is a total blast. If you have never tried it , do so. You will not be disappointed. Lots of action.
You can get into it with a cheap recurve, a bow reel and a couple of fish arrows.
Here, in the spring time, the carp will move into the shallows for spawning. They will be by the thousands.
The real fun though is the gar fishing. Alligator gar will give you a fight to remember. Another plus with gar is the backstrap or tenderloin. Take a apir of tin snips and go along the top of the armor like plating, open em up like a tin can and you have two of the whitest, tastiest backstraps you could wish for. Mmmmm............Mmmmmmm.....
....Mmmmmmmm.

There are a lot of bowfishing tournaments across the country now. Some pay higher prize payouts than bass tournies. Some of these tournies run 72 hours non-stop. A real Hoot.
The guys that are really into the tournies have some awesome rigs. Usualy they are wide flat bottom boats that have been rigged for bowfishing. Air motors for getting around the really shallow stuff, two raised shooting platforms front and rear, halogen lights that look like a football field going across the lake at night and a generator to run all of this.