Shooting fish in a lake
Ephrata native Sean Manderville tosses a carp he caught into a bucket to be weighed. Manderville, a long-time carp shooter, caught the largest fish at the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, a monster weighing nearly 30 pounds.
Charles H. Featherstone/Columbia Basin Herald
A bowfisher takes aim at a carp during last Saturday’s Moses Lake Carp Classic, which saw fishers from across the Pacific Northwest catch over 200 of the invasive pests.
Some of the 38 boats getting ready to hunt carp on Moses Lake last Saturday morning during the Moses Lake Carp Classic.
Moses Lake Carp Classic organizer and avid sportsman Ty Swarthout on his boat Saturday during the carp tournament. While Swarthout has started carp hunting — done with a bow and arrow — he stayed on the sidelines for the tournament.
Ephrata native and avid carp shooter Sidnee Pixlee waits on her boat with her dog Nala prior to the start of the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday.
Ephrata native and avid carp shooter Sidnee Pixlee waits on her boat with her dog Nala prior to the start of the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday.
Ephrata native Sean Manderville tosses a carp he caught into a bucket to be weighed. Manderville, a long-time carp shooter, caught the largest fish at the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, a monster weighing nearly 30 pounds.
Ephrata native Sean Manderville tosses a carp he caught into a bucket to be weighed. Manderville, a long-time carp shooter, caught the largest fish at the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, a monster weighing nearly 30 pounds.
Ephrata native Sean Manderville tosses a carp he caught into a bucket to be weighed. Manderville, a long-time carp shooter, caught the largest fish at the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, a monster weighing nearly 30 pounds.
Ephrata native Sean Manderville tosses a carp he caught into a bucket to be weighed. Manderville, a long-time carp shooter, caught the largest fish at the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, a monster weighing nearly 30 pounds.
Ephrata native Sean Manderville tosses a carp he caught into a bucket to be weighed. Manderville, a long-time carp shooter, caught the largest fish at the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, a monster weighing nearly 30 pounds.
Dallas Wells, a bowfisher from Vancouver, Washington holds up a carp he shot in Moses Lake on Saturday during the Moses Lake Carp Classic. Wells, who has been bowfishing carp for the last six years, said this year’s carp classic was his first tournament. The carp classic was organized to help clear out some of Moses Lake’s carp and improve water quality. For more details, check out the Wednesday edition of the Columbia Basin Herald.
MOSES LAKE — Sean Manderville reached into the big, blue plastic barrel sitting in his boat and pulled out a carp.
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