The Silver Bullet
A happy Brady Miller arrowed two silver carp at a bowfishing tournament in Lafitte.
By Jerald Horst - August 2, 2010 | Louisiana Sportsman
I first met Hypophthalmichthyes molitrix on a warm summer’s night in 1997. A scimitarshaped
crescent moon hung over the humid night’s air in the Atchafalaya Basin.
One of my best friends, the late Sandy Corkern, and I were on a frogging mission in Lake
Chicot oilfield in the heart of the Basin. I was at the tiller handle, and he was in the bow doing
the grabbing.
Spying the glowing orbs of a huge frog, I turned the boat sharply to the left. Immediately, a
silver missile almost 2 feet long arced into the boat, violently ricocheted off the gunnels six or
seven times and jumped back overboard. I knew it was a fish, but it happened so quickly that
I couldn’t identify what kind it was.
“What was that?” asked Corkern after he turned to face me.
“I don’t know,” I replied, “but it looked like a silver bullet.” MORE...