What did I see?

[CATCHEMALL]

I was fishing in Wolf creek on Cumberland and I saw what I think was a pontoon with alot of lights on the boat. This boat had probably a hundred feet light up in the water. It also sounded like he had a generator running the lights. Was this guy trying to catch shad or what? Just sounded to loud to do any fishing around. If somebody could tell me what this was I would be greatful.
Thanks

[bevo]

Bow fishing. They run the lights off generators.

[Brutus]

That had to be a UFO. Did you see any laser blasts.

Sorry:P

[MsgMills]

I was fishing on Taylorsville Lake during a tournament one night and the same thing was going on with another Pontoon, real bright lights and running a generator....Real annoying when the lights were blinding you and messing up what night vision you had to fish with....

[tracker4stroke]

they could have been bow fishing

[LoweBow]

Deffinately bowfishing.
I chased bass for many years before giving it up and taking up bowfishing tourneys. Much more fun, but not near as much money.
My boat put out 200,000 lumens of light w/ 4-400watt metal halide stadium lights and 4-500 watt quartz.

Tons of bowfishing boat pics at.

http://www.bowfishusa.com/community/...?topic=10357.0

[peter]

Very interesting.

[Richman]

If you're not certain it was a pontoon???

Possibly the KDFWR running a shock boat. They run a lot of lights with a gen set and have a railing around the front that may look like a pontoon. They generally stay in close to shore however.

Rich

[CATCHEMALL]

>If you're not certain it was a pontoon???
>
>Possibly the KDFWR running a shock boat. They run a lot of
>lights with a gen set and have a railing around the front
>that may look like a pontoon. They generally stay in close
>to shore however.
>
>Rich

Maybe this is what it was. I dont think it was a bow fisherman. This boat had the long florescent lights down each side of it. It looked like it had two 8' and a 4' on each side. This makes the third time I have saw it around wolf creek in cumberland. It usually stays on the shallow flats around the area and moves real slow.

[Moose1am]

I'd think it was the shocking boat sampling the fish population. They run a big john boat down here and they use a generator to shock the fish into nets for collection. They put the fish they catch in a big tank of water and then stop about ever 15 minutes to count, measure and record the catch. They they will sample for another 15 minutes. I'll bet that it's the Kentucky DNR doing lake sampling. They tend to conduct these lake surveys at night in the summer months. And they do tend to follow the shoreline when doing these surveys. I have watched the IN DNR fishery biologist do these surveys on two occasions. You may want to talk to them after they finish their survey later that night and see what they caught. It's very interesting to see what type of fish are in the water.

I got to work on one of these shocking boats once on the Wabash River when I was still going to school. We caught all type of big river fish that day. When the fish get shocked they swim up to the surface and are stunned for just a few seconds and then you use a long handled net to capture the fish at the surface and put it into a holding tank on the boat. The fish come fast and furious at times and it's hard to catch all of them. Normally two guys will stand up at the front of the boat and capture the stunned fish. It's very interesting to see this done.

Regards,

Moose1am