Gliding over a swimming nutria or small gator, a thought flickers momentarily: Wouldn’t it be fun to draw and shoot? But common sense overtakes you and the wildlife show continues, for in the Louisiana marshes at night everything is dark and different but alive and interesting alligators, fish, birds, mammals, the bright lights shining in the clear waters to give you a bird’s-eye view from the deck of the airboat as you stand with a bow in hand, waiting to shoot.
The first time Joe Bell ventured from his home in northeast Indiana to southern Louisiana for a bowfishing trip, he didn’t know what to expect. A custom precision rifle-maker, Bell has hunted for big-game animals throughout the United States for years with his bow and rifles. But bowfishing was…
