Video: Josh Bowmar is Now the Holder of a New Ohio Bowfishing State Record

If you follow along on social media, Josh and Sarah Bowmar just recently purchased a new boat for the summer, and have already taken down an Ohio bowfishing state record!

Josh and Sarah have been taking full advantage of their new Tracker Grizzly 2072, taking it out to cast for crappie and for sweet summertime cruises, but they’ve recently had really great success bowfishing around the lakes in their hometown.

Water wasn’t the clearest today but we still had a blast taking the boat out on the water for her maiden voyage! #CrocLife

A post shared by 🎯Bowmar Bowhunting🎯 (@bowmarbowhunting) on May 1, 2018 at 4:08pm PDT

On May 21, the couple took the boat out for a typical afternoon cruise, when Sarah spotted something big swimming in the water. Without giving away too much, the YouTube video below picks up just after Josh placed his arrow into a massive bigmouth buffalo:

Later, Josh shared the following post to the Instagram page he shares with his wife, Sarah:

ITS LIVE ON YOUTUBE! (Link in profile) I’ve been bowfishing this lake in Ohio for 15 years and have never been lucky enough to arrow a Buffalo let alone the New State Record! Thanks @sarah_bowmar for spotting the fish cruising to our normal spot, we whipped the boat over there and killed the motor drifting in silently and the rest is history 💪🏼 team work makes the dreams work. #bowfishing #newrecord #beast #dinosaur

A post shared by 🎯Bowmar Bowhunting🎯 (@bowmarbowhunting) on May 22, 2018 at 6:38am PDT

Currently, the Ohio bowfishing record for buffalo is held by Brent McGlone, who shot a 40.8-pound fish in Lake Erie on October 11, 2013. Bigmouth buffalo are often confused for common carp, however the two species are not closely related.

What an awesome fish, and a great story to go along with it! Congrats on the new state record Josh, and props to your spotter for seeing the fish in the first place!

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