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Carpster	posted 07/03/2006 05:52 PM EST.     Where do carp generally stay at day, once they are done spawning? What time of day is best? I know bowfishing after the spawn during the day isn't ideal, but I don't want to spend $100s on lights, generators ect. for night bowfishing. Thanks!
Mike	Response #1 posted 07/03/2006 05:58 PM EST.     You can still find them in the shallows. Not in the numbers like the spawn but they're there.
Parker	Response #2 posted 07/03/2006 09:25 PM EST.     they r pretty much everywhere around here (southern wisconsin). We have hot spots in shallow rivers with lots of cattails, but later at night, right before dark they r all over on the lakes sucking on top of the water. same thing with early morning. day time is fun, but night time is a blast. we dont use a lot of gear with lights, just a couple 10-20$ spotlights. (we have a converter though so they hook up to a battery) works good for us
Carpster	Response #3 posted 07/03/2006 09:36 PM EST.     What candle power do you use? I have no idea how powerful they need to be...
Parker	Response #4 posted 07/03/2006 11:58 PM EST.     we have a 2 million that works pretty good, thats usually what we hook up to the battery or cigarrette lighter in the boat. we have a 10 mil too, but we lost the plug in for it so it lasts like 45 minutes. we had an AWSOME 3 mil but it broke. lit up a BIG circle, but had a good focused beam about 3 feet in diameter. i think 2 or 3 mil is a good direction to go in, get a lightweight one, if u have an old battery use that and they sell these converters that hook up to the battery (the alligator clams) and then the other end there is a cigarrette lighter plug in. this set up has never died on us when out in the boat. if ur lookin to do a whole nighter without the sound/expence of a generator, its the way to go.

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