VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University recently welcomed a special group of high school students to campus for three days of activities, conversations and tours designed to introduce them to the
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.