-Anyone Bow fish on here? Do you know if it's illegal down here? Last time i bowfished was 2 years ago on Lime Lake in western NY. The way i had it setup is the line from the arrow was attached to an eye-hole on the side of my canoe, to keep my bow from getting pulled in the water. I shot a 4 1/2' pike throught the gills and he jetted under the canoe, threw me off balance when he tugged it and flipped it. Trying to climb on the bottom of a slimy flipped canoe when there is a pissed off bleeding Pike (aka freshwater barracuda) no more than 15ft. away is a bad feeling. Im not gonna lie i was screaming like a little bitch. I sat there for an hour until it just died.