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In effect, you're fishing one portion of the water column, similar to making the same cast again and again

to the late Joe and Emma Dixon

With an eye toward bottom rocks and crevices, we try to avoid bottoms with structure so rugged that even heavy tackle is defeated by the debris

Below, Hayes makes a more thoughtful bowfishing reel from a tin can, a section of a hacksaw blade, pieces of wood, electrical tape, old bicycle inner-tube and braided nylon twine

Once you supply yourself with the basics to begin with, you can then play with tackle, depending on your own fishing preferences

Using a straight shank hook on a drop-shot gives you an upward-facing hook point that is poised and ready to pin a fish in the top of the mouth