A team of carp shooters in a fan boat, which looks like it would be more at home in the bayous of Louisiana or the Florida Everglades, return from a day of carp shooting during the Moses Lake Carp Classic on Saturday, May 20. “That boat’s loud,” said tournament organizer Ty Swartout.
May 30, 2023
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MOSES LAKE — Ty Swartout said I came close to spearing a carp, but I honestly don’t think so. “Oh, that was close,” Swartout told me as we stood on the bow of his bass fishing boat as it slowly drifted across a very shallow portion of Moses Lake parallel to SR 17. “I think you got a piece of his tail.” I was holding a green compound bow with a reel attached by a long string to a big yellow arrow. It had been a long time since I shot a bow, and even longer since I went fishing. Standing on a boat trying to shoot fish? Well, this I’d never done before. “Remember to aim below the fish,” Swartout told me.