After the first snow you can bet I am up at our family place in Wyoming to chase Mt. Lion with my Cuz. For years I have tried to talk him into taking some time off the ranch to enjoy the fishing. Well last week he dropped in for a break and to finally do some fishing. It has been very hot during the day, so I suggested that we hook up the air boat and make a night of bowfishing. 
I could tell at first that he did not think it would be an adventure, but by the end of the night he is addicted to bowfishing in the South Louisiana marsh. As we ran across a few marsh beds to get inside of a few shallower bays, I could tell he was uncomfortable and then remembered that he could not swin. I eased back and told my 6'8" cousin that the water would be less than a foot deep.
After several missed shots, he got used to shooting under the fish with the modern fishing bows and was wacking and stacking. I swear he was a giddy as a kid and getting just as excited as my fiends two sons with the spotting of every fish. I personally like my old set up and hand spooling my arrows, but I am starting to get used to our new set ups with the reels.
around midnight we had our 5 man limit of 25 reads, 26 sheeps head and 5 flounder. the hard part was keeping them off the gator gars. Shooting gator gars are a blast, but we wanted to load him up with red fillets along with the 75 pounds of shrimp he bought to take back up to Wyoming.
It was a great night trip and after two days of catching reds on the rod, he is now looking for a camp down on the bayou to enjoy bow fishing with our gang.
Mighty3
PS Take a mountainman fishing they will thank you for it

Holly smoke.... wonder you didn't swamp your boat with that much fish in it.
75 pounds of shimp??? Sounds like Wyoming is gunna have a little Surf & Turf.

Tuffy, up Wy way, shrimp and fish cost them more than black angus... Since moving back to the States, I have made it a tradition to have a fish fry and shrimp cooking, Boiled and fried, and we get half of the community to stop by. Hey, that has opened a ton of private land to us in the last few years.
many of the people in louisiana turn their nose up at a sheepshead, but it is as good if not better eating than reds. Actually redfish or red drum used to be what was considered a trash fish. until Paul Proudoumme came up with blackened redfish. that almost wiped them out until it was given gamefish status. Now it is also a federal fish and great eating, whilst the lowly sheepshead is still non game and no limit, but a far better fish at the end of cooking.
I was also a nay sayer to bow fishing until I went out and now I am addicted to slingling sticks at fish. That is where fishing meets hunting. only thing is again, there is NO such thing as catch and release.

Getting ready to make another saturday night trip. Anyone around South louisiana want to jump on give me a bell. I have plenty of room. just bring your own smile and get ready to clean some fish....

If anyone knows any good bowfishing guides in VA please let me know I have been wanting to go but don't know the first thing about it.

Here is a site I found. I don't know anything about them as I just googled it up, but they seem to have their stuff together and list references to contact.
http://www.osadv.com/bowfish.html
Bowfishing is addictive and it is a blast just learning. Down our way it is NOTHING to make 200 shots a night. I Put it this way, I took my cuz from Wyoming and he did not think it was going to be fun, by the end of the night he was a giddy as a kid with his first deer.
Check around as I am certail someone will have some connections as bow fishing hs been around awhile, but seems to be gaining a larger following.

ive been bowfishing for the 5 years or so what a blast unfortunatley all we have close to my house that are leagle to shoot are carp.i have started a bowfishing team -carp assasins- and we go stickin those slimy buggers aevery chance we get as statd above it is addictive everyone i have taken comes back for more our biggest night was 1800 lbs of bottom suckers my biggest fish was 36 lbs im lookin to beat that this spring if anyone wants to go in the helena montana area in mid june give me a holler