• Arb Notes: Fishing for Spring

    With the warmer weather of the past weeks comes the opportunity for new types of outdoor activity. One of these activities, made possible by the slow disappearance of the ice on the Cannon River, is the sport of angling. So to all you fishers out there pick up your bow and arrows and head on out! Bow and arrows you say? Yup bow and arrows.

    The sport of archery fishing or bow fishing is one of the fastest growing sports in the nation. The Student Naturalists were introduced to this sport at the end of winter term when they came across a large carp abandoned on the ice next to the imprint of an arrow on the snow. How did it get there? After a bit of guessing we arrived at the natural (or not so natural depending on how you look at it) conclusion, and after a bit of research we gained the whole picture…