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If you're wanting to run your bowfishing lights on 110-120V AC (generator), then you are going to be required to run a power converter. If you are running LEDs, this power converter will take the AC voltage from the generator and convert it to DC voltage for your bowfishing lights. All LED lights are DC by nature. There is no such thing as an AC LED. If an LED fixture is advertised as AC, it still uses a power converter to transform the power to DC which is how the actual LED chips receive power. There are various slang names...

Line Cutterz By Hunter Engelman, Modified Outdoors Bowfishing Charters “To Invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Thomas Edison. Vance Zahorski, the founder of line cutterz has created the most universal outdoorsman’s tool in the 21st century that was first built with only some welding putty and part of a dental floss cutter. Now, it is created with corrosion resistant dual sided blades, and ABS Plastic. For those of you who have never heard of line cutterz, they created an adjustable ring to cut up to 100 lb braided fishing line with almost no effort...

We have a long list of things to be thankful for this year. At the top of that list is someone who has made it all possible. This person is YOU. Thank you for believing in us, for subscribing to our emails to learn from our experiences and research, and for trusting our innovative product development. We have been able to pioneer the best hunting, flounder gigging and bowfishing equipment because YOU took the time to give us feedback on what you liked, what you didn't like, and your recommended ideas for improvement. We might not always express our immediate gratitude...

Ice Hole Spear Fishing is an Age Old Tradition that has been documented by Europeans as far back as 1763. While it has been around even longer than that, the principle of the sport has remained the same over the past several hundred years. There is a fishermen in the dark with a decoy and pointed stick, waiting for a fish to come up close enough to spear.We now have portable gas heaters, power augers to drill through the ice, brighter portable lights, and significantly stronger and more durable fish spears. We have put the odds in our favor to comfortably spear more fish,...

You read that right. A group that has spent the majority of the past couple years writing about flounder gigging and bowfishing are now writing about the rut in deer hunting. Believe it or not, we’re all big hunters when the season presents itself. Bowfishing and flounder gigging are seemingly easier to do year-round, and lawfully allowed of course.  The open of deer season is different for every county across the states, as are the rut seasons. Here locally, we are seeing signs of the rut starting as early as November 1. In years past, the rut has ranged from...