Freshwater Spearos...short video

[bbarnett51]

I get jeolous seeing all of these awesome videos in the clear blue water. However, I have been spearfishing since I was 14, I'm 39 now, in the lakes of Arkansas. I absolutely love it even though 15' is the best I get and usually its 8'-10'.

My home lake is Greers Ferry which is a beautiful lake surrounded by rolling hills and mountains. We can spear any species, rare in freshwater, and have a nice variety. Flathead and blue cats, many kinds of bass, big walleye, and all the rough fish species you could want.

This is a short 45sec video. I cut out a lot of good footage so that it would be short for facebook. It's nothing like what you guys get but I hope you enjoy the other world of spearfishing!
https://youtu.be/CvL13EfwDXM

 

[Seya]

Awesome man I love fresh water spearing videos
I wish we could spear more we are limited to only a few fish here. I'd love to get a walleye but we cant
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[Eric Sedletzky]

The only freshwater fish we can spear here are carp AFAIK.
There are rivers in Norcal that have carp and I thought of diving some of the deeper holes to take a peek.
I'm part Russian so I grew up eating carp when my grandfather would catch them in the Russian River in Sonoma Co. My grandma would make a pickled carp cocktail with other things in it including beets, kidney beans and other stuff. It's called 'eekrah'...roll the R ...This would be the best pronunciation I can come up with. It's served cold generally spread over bread or on a cracker. As I remember it was very good. She would grind up the fish in a meat grinder then when it was pickled all the bones softened and became edible.
I've heard of some carp recipes that supposedly are quite good. Here it's considered a trash fish, but in many parts of the world it's a mainstay and widely consumed as a normal part of their diet.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Cool video!! I did a national comp there a few yrs ago and it was tough to find any fish. And the temp of 90+ on the surface and cold deeper made it horrible,

 

[bbarnett51]

It would definitely be hard not knowing the lake. I have 20yrs of Lake knowledge and is still tough at times. That's a big lake and the best spots are humps that can only be found with a depth finder and beforehand knowledge that it exists.