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Sorry, but speaking for myself,...I'd rather eat 20 paddlefish dinners,....shoot 400 times a day 100 miles closer to home,...and put the couple hundred bucks it would cost towards other adventures. Looks like that first place payout doesn't even pay for dinner.
You guys shoot em up tho' and have fun!

The first two hours of daylight are the productive shooting times on the tail waters. After that it gets to be a real fiasco. After boats charge the channel 100 times and drift it back, plus the other twenty boats "stalking" fish at half throttle,...it's no wonder the fish are down when people show up later in the day.

I wonder about the closing of the basins to archery myself. Open to snagging, but closed to archery? I'm sure it would impact the population less than the snagging season.
If they allow for a scientific release of a certain number of tags, they must consider that number of dead fish is "acceptable". I'm going to lobby my few contacts for the basins to be open to archery paddlefish.