Primitive Bow Build, Catch and Cook | Tilapia | Bamboo Fish Arrows
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- This week we're heading back down to south Florida to meet up with my buddy Scott to put some primitive bow fishing equipment to the test. South Florida is home to many invasive fish species including armored catfish and tilapia, some of which can grow quite large. But hitting these spooky fish with primitive bamboo arrows is challenging to say the least. After a while we manage to get an arrow into a big tilapia and get to sample some on the dinner table.
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My grandad who grew up in the 30's said that the creeks had so many fish in them (back before industrial logging silted a lot of holes in) that you could simply shoot under any log and would hit fish better than half the time and that his personal best was 3 fish on a single arrow. As a boy he used arrows he tipped with honey locust thorns he said.
Awesome content brother! Keep it coming.
Hunting that country with primitive gear seems like a live action video of Maurice Thompson’s Witchery of Archery. Keep up the good work!
I visited a fishing tribe in the heart of the Amazon, and they used an arrow similar to yours, but for the barbed tip, they would leave a hole at the end of the cane shaft, and insert a sharpened piece of hardwood, tied to cotton twine, and wrapped around The arrow. When the fish is shot, the barbed tip comes out, and the arrow becomes a fishing pole with the line attached to it.
I hope this message finds you blessed and happy. I've faced a major challenge this last year and have been homeless since. Your videos have helped me overcome some scary obstacles! I can't thank you enough for all the tips you share. They're literally, life saving. Stay blessed. Much love. -Kristi.
When viewed as a challenge to overcome rather than something to avoid, adversity makes us stronger. Stick with it Kristi!
You know what I love about bowfishin'? Don't matter if the fish are biting! If you want to help foster a community of bushcraft skills, come join the advancedbushcraft subreddit and feel free to post your content. Your bow and arrow with a knife video is such high quality bushcraft content, I can't thank you enough. That's exactly the content the community needs to combat the popularity of collecting gear instead of skills.
Most people would have given up after the 15th shot or so. Also, most people probably don’t realize how much work goes into making a 12 minute video like this. All those detail shots take time to set up!
My 10 yr old daughter and I love learning the primitive ways. Watched all the ads and hoping it will help your channel. Shared on my Facebook. Great job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Your fried fish looked delicious! 😋
Awesome! Thank you!
Watching the Ads does nothing just so you know
@@MustObeyTheRulesI don’t think that’s true dude
@@J.L.Y it’s absolutely true. Watch time on videos is what helps make them money. Not watching the ads. If you wanna help them, just watch the videos from beginning to end. Skip the ads
Afternoon. I just wanted to thank you. I've only been practicing archery for a few months and it can be confusing when you rely on CZcams videos for advice. So many different schools of thought when it comes to chucking a stick.
I've found your methods and way of explaining them invaluable, so again, thank you!👍
Practically no narration, but I loved it nonetheless, Clay. This was entertaining, but also informative.
Theres nothing better than eating what you caught. I miss ehen i was a kid and we did this
Nice fishing guys I'm whatching from pilipin 🇵🇭 please don't forget me thank you for the great videos take care all the time
Livin the life out in the Florida sun, chasin fish with a bow, enjoy for us all; and I hope your flu is gone again!
+1 for this video showing all of the misses and the reality of bow fishing
Growing up the creek behind our house get very clear in late summer so you could see the fish and me and my siblings would fill a deep freez with fish with our bows. I learned that light refraction makes the fish look higher then they actually are. I found that aiming the width of the fish low helped. I couldn't miss after my grandad told me that. This is awesome. Great video
Hey Clay, love your videos so much. I notice you use a lot of sinew in a lot of your bushcraft videos such as this one. I’d love to see a video where you explain and demonstrate the process of extracting and processing this sinew for use. Thanks so much, love your content!
Tilapia is invasive their? How cool is that, so you can take any tilapia home and have a fish fry, tilapia is delicious!
Love the new bow builds from different woods. I would love to see you make a yew recurve and remove the all the sapwood. I bet it performs better
Serrations would look good on the tip, preventing the fish from getting off
Came for the bow fishing, stayed for fly fishing bluegill! A canoe and a fly rod are my therapy!
I love it!
I would have opted for a spinner reel. Standing in the swamp with alligators is not the way I want to spend a short retirement.
Glad to see the water sample from last week didn't do you in.
You should get together with Ryan Gill from Hunt Primitive and do hunt together. Would be awesome to watch
We did a hog hunting video together a few years ago.
just finished watching your season on alone. incredible inspiration and testament to willpower. also amazing footage. taking all those angles requires a lot of energy that people dont know about.
also found your channel before i found the show. great videography
Love bow fishing with my hickory slefbow and my 4-5ft cane arrows. I even made the broadheads for fishing. my favorite is gar here in southern Louisiana
Nothing like fishing in the water next to submerged 12’ alligators.
No doubt!
I like your experiences my friend, this is Brazil!!! Friendly hug.
I just kept yelling AW-W!😊
🤣me too
Awesome video clay, just have a question, how to fix a crack on a bow limb on the side and longitudinal? Thanks
That's hard to answer without seeing the crack. If it's not flexing at the crack you may be able to just fill it with wood glue and go on about your business. If it's flexing and threatening to open up, maybe wrap it with some sinew after the wood glue.
Great video man can't wait for the next one
These forest is amazing to build a bow, unfortunately I live in north east of Brazil and here have nothing like this, we have good woods but nothing to do a bowstring or good arrows. The biome here is caatinga!!
You never disappoint Clay, awesome time. Let’s eat!😊
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legendary video. i wish there was water where i live
That looks like a lot of fun. Can you teach us some more primitive fishing methods. Im a good fisherman but often wonder what would i do without any of the gear.
What an amazing meal, well rewarding !
The first fish you speared I believe is called a plecostomus (pleco) I had them in my aquarium, and just like you said in the video, an (armored catfish)
Great looking bow!
Will there be a season 2 of the Skills Challenge?
Love stuff like this
Excellent video Great info Dale Thanks again
That was cool. Cool Canoe also!!
I just love you brother you got some amazing skills I wish I could be like you everything I watch I attempt I love that real that you did on the bow I got one of those type of recurve bows and it works LOL thank you so much brother for your skills may God bless you with everything you need and desire
❤❤❤ Happy June Clay! Your videos give me a lot of peace. Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
To you as well!
Might help to have some sort of gaff once they’re on the arrow to ensure they don’t get off
So fun
Looks so fun I would feel like a young boy again
ดีมาก😊
Sunfish family make for great fun on light fly rod!
You got that right!
Trad archery and fly fishing, doesnt get any better than this
That Bowie knife is BAD ASS !!!
I like it too!
Bang up job Clay!
Perfect video for a relaxing Saturday morning 😊
Enjoy!
Might as well just spear them being that close xD good fun though
Thanks for showing all your misses.
Amazing
I like video ❤❤❤
As i never had a real dad, youve officially become my step dad .... my mom approves 🤙
Because of the parallax from the water, do you aim above or below the target. Trying to wrap my head around that one. I'm thinking below? Never mind, I just should have continued watching! 🤣🤣🤣
great work man love the old privative ways my passion as well
Much appreciated
Def need a ton of practice, how were you missjng like that man 😂❤
Hi Mr. Hayes, I just wanted to know what your mixture of gelatin and water is for when you do a sinew backed bow? Thank you so much for your time.
Shorter flame hardened arrows IS the way to go...
SO YOU SAID YOU'RE SICK NOW IS THAT FROM THE WATER LAST VIDEOS?
Amazing Talent!❤
Surly you ate some of those big bluegills ✌🏻👍🇺🇸
Meu amigo parabéns pela captura você é muito bom frito garantido show
Love the bluegill fly fishing segment!
Thank ya
I came for the doggos
Nice
Bluegill are so fun on a fly rod! Wish we had more of them around here. But how did that plecostomus taste? 😆
More of a serious question: How do you keep all that sinew from just coming apart when it gets wet?
Great hunting❤
I'm in Illinois and fly fishing is something I want to get into for bluegill and bass but I've seen guys catching carp on fly rod too
I've never tried carp but I hear they're a blast, and a challenge to hook on a fly!
TNX 4 VID LOL
What about crossbow made by this way?
@ClayHayes is seasoning wood all about removal of the moisture content? Have you ever noticed a difference between a forced dried stave and a stave thats been slowly dried for years? Just curious
Looks super fun except for the 12 ft ankle biters!
Yes sir 👍
Awesome!!! 👍
7:13 arrow speed on this shot was a little higher 😂
Great content
Yummy😊
Nahhh you just had cold nasty words 🤣😂🤣😂 lol ! I totally understand !
haha!
points out 12foot gator just completely becoming invisible.
*jump cut into clay walking in waist deep swamp*
Would a landing net work with bow fishing ( avoids pulling up on arrow)?
Are you catching all those fish on poppers?
Yep, a little yellow bee pattern.
Trusty dog
❤
Love the videos! Random question though, I have a hunting lease in Mayo, FL. and I’ve bought a truck topper to try and camp out in my truck bed close by my hunt stand. I’ve never tried this before and we get a lot of bear activity. Are these black bears in north Florida harmless or are they going to try and mess with us while camping? Also might be doing solo trips so makes me a little nervous. Thanks for any advice!
They’re pretty harmless for the most part but there’s always the possibility of running into a belligerent bear. Personally, I wouldn’t worry at all.
@@clayhayeshunter okay thanks! Never had an encounter in person!
Question if you would have carved barbs in the arrow head would that have helped keep the fish on the arrow just asking for if and when I get a chance to make my own arrows
Not in this case. One broke the tip completely off and the other was hit in the gill plate and didn’t penetrate enough.
What is the best type of wood to attempt this in northern idaho?
Pacific yew works great. Serviceberry as well.
Bread and fish. ☦️
Where was this filmed? Florida? After seeing the armored catfish I know it's Florida lol
Are you related to any of the Hayeses from Hayden Colorado
Not that I know of
I'm all for primitive hunting, but dude, you _need_ a net. It's not cool majorly injuring animals and letting them die slowly (I know that wasn't the intention, but with arrows like that, it was kind of a give in).
Yep, we should have had a net. That was an oversight.
But when you fish with nets the fishes will suffer as well by drowning without oxygen off the water...
@@a.wilson1979 That's why you cut off the heads of the fish soon after.
Ugh, these videos are killing me! I gotta get back out there and catch some fish. It's been way too long...
First
i do not want to CALL A GATOR to me
thanks. i blame you for me having a nightmare about a friend geeting swallowed up by a gator. i woke up, and then when i fell back to sleep, the dream continued. i dont have any encouters with them. 0 experience but what i see in tv. it amazes me that you really don't mind them. what do you do when they approach you/ charge at you?
Screw deflections.... it took you 15 shots to realize shoot UNDER the fish? Bud.... you're better than this!
Look up "refractive index of light" which is why you are having so much trouble shooting fish. Also, bowfishing without an attached spool-line is unethical. Bye.
Amazing Talent!❤
Thanks
@@clayhayeshunter
You're welcome!😊
Amazing