Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - May 2019

Americana Outdoors ventured over to Bossier City, Louisiana to bring you coverage of the 7th annual Bass Pro Shops U.S. Open Bowfishing Championship! Founded by John Paul Morris, this competition has catapulted bowfishing into the tournament spotlight and paved the way for bowfishing to become one of the fastest growing water sports today. This year, 118 teams from 23 states competed in the tournament. At this event, we had the exciting opportunity to browse through the most efficient bows and gear there is for you to use, and enjoyed getting a first hand look at what’s in store for the latest models of top of the line bowfishing boats in the industry! The location for this event worked out perfectly, being the fishing hub that it is, there are not only a lot of fish but huge fish. Hosting the event in Louisiana brought a lot of local teams out the event as well as other teams from Texas and other states giving this a huge turnout despite the weather conditions. As it gets close to weigh in time, about 40 boats in we’re already at 400 pounds of fish that have been weighed in so far. A lot of giants have been catched allowing some teams to be recognized. Team Pos- sumcods wins the Big Grass Carp with a big fish weight of 58.3 pounds. No Limit Bowfishing wins the Big Common Carp with a weight of 51.6 pounds, and lastly team Obscure Adventures wins Big Buffalo Carp and the overall big fish with a weight of 73.3 pounds. Now for our top three winners, one of the teams will be going home with a grand prize of $25,000. Teams Midnight Warriors, Southern Style Bowfishing, and Pure Shot Outdoors placed in the top three for this years 2019 U.S. Bowfishing Championship. Your 3rd place team goes to the Midnight Warriors with a total weight of 491 pounds. Our 2nd place team is the Southern Style Bowfishing with a total weight of 505 pounds, and last but certainly not least, our first place winner and the grad prize of $25,000 goes to team Pure Shot Outdoors with a whopping total of 600.3 pounds! Congratulations to all our winners and teams that have came out to participate in this event. MASSIVE WEIGHTS TRIUMPH IN 2019 BASS PRO SHOPS U.S. OPENBOWFISHINGCHAMPIONSHIP

These diehard bow fishermen weathered some rough conditions for the duration of the tournament, but the thunderstorms couldn’t keep these guys down! The competitors successfully removed over 58,000 pounds of invasive species from area rivers, including Carp, Buffalo, Gar, and Suckers, that have been plaguing the lakes and rivers. Tune in and see which teams came out on top at the 2019 U.S. Open Bowfishing Championship! Be sure to click here for the latest tournament information! 2019 Bass Pro Shops U.S. Open Bowfishing Overall Champions - Pure Shot Outdoors