This weekend I’m attending to the first annual Team WON Carp Caper. We are heading to the Kaskaskia River in southern Illinois to bowfish flying carp. As part of Team WON we’ve decided we would love for you to share in our adventure by giving away a huge prize package valued at $500 from products donated by our wonderful sponsors.
Part of the prize package giveaway:
A gorgeous Hot Caliber pendant from Hot Caliber:
A $100 E-card for Cabelas donated by The Sportsman Channel:
A pair of these cute comfortable spa slippers from Acorn Slippers Online:
A package of delicious jerky from House of Jerky:
These unique and creative chocolate shotgun shells from Chocolate Ammo:
Now, don’t get your thong in a bind but ….
Umm … From The Hunter’s Wife (me):
To enter the giveaway:
Answer this question in the comments section below:
How would you protect yourself from flying carp? Flying carp that fly out of the water and into your boat. Or head.
What would you use to protect yourself?
Because I need to be heavily protected and armed.
Rules:
One entry per person
Contest will run from today, August 8, 2011 – Monday, August 15, 2011.
One winner will be selected from 1 of the 5 blogs listed below and will win the entire prize package.
Better your odds of winning:
After you leave your comment here, please visit the following blogs to enter there as well for more great prizes, giving you a better chance of winning all the prizes listed on all 5 blogs.
Barbara Baird – Women’s Outdoor News
Gretchen Steele – Walkin’ With the Wild Woman
Stacey Huston – A Focus in the Wild
Paige Eissinger – Women’s Outdoor News
The winner: 1 entry will be randomly selected by EACH blog. Between those 5 finalists – 1 winner will be selected as our grand prize winner.
Good luck all!
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I think I would not want those flying carp touching me so I’d wear a rain slicker and carry a tennis racquet to keep them back in the water.
I would use my Ninja reflexes and sword to protect myself. However I do not think you have either Ninja reflexes or a sword Jodi, so I suggest you get a full set of football pads and helmet to protect yourself.
Sounds scary to me, so I’d probably use a football helmet.
I think you need some hockey helmets and barrier nets
I wouldn’t wear anything on my head or body, I guess when I saw it coming at me I would just slap the crap outta of it til it landed safely in the boat!
Use the force…Luke. Jedi mind control
hahaha….If you are on a boat I would get one of those netted cabin tent covers and put it all around the boat!! And just fish out the door!!! Be safe, lol…..
I’d have to wear some kind of helmet and craft up a super-shield made of bullet-proof glass to fend off the fish missiles. Might have to add the Cap’t America logo just for giggles.
Helmet and shield!!
I would be wearing my full hockey gear; that is the full faced helmet, chest protection, shin guards, pants & cant forget the stick for swating the darn things and pucks for throwing @ em.
Have a great time & b safe
i’m not the Cat that answered first
so, i’ve added my last name to distinguish between us.
the very FIRST thing i’d do is buy a helmet! i’m such an unlucky klutz – there’s no doubt in my mind that a flying carp would hit me right in the head.hopefully, i wouldn’t be standing at the time, because i’d FOR SURE fall out of the boat! and definitely something to cover the chest area, because if by chance i didn’t get hit in the head by a flying carp, one would surely hit me in the chest… and that has to hurt [don't ask my how i know that!]!
great contest – have fun!
Bubble wrap and a BIG frying pan!!! Be safe Jody
I’m a sponsor, so I’m not eligible, but I had to answer anyway. Since I’m a golf widow, I would have a handy assortment of irons and drivers at my disposal. I think a 7 iron would probably work nicely. And I will wear 2 golf gloves to ensure a good grip.
You are braver than me lady – I was attacked by one of those flying carp once and now I refuse to go back to the flying carp river with Hubby. I simply huddled in the bottom of the boat with my life jacket on holding a throw cushion over my head until he finally took me back to the truck. It was quite traumatic… I’m not sure which was worse, the fish or the laughing at me he did afterwards but I believe I’ve been scarred for life!
A raincoat, my nephew’s catcher’s mask and my purple aluminum softball bat!
I would wear my daughter’s WI Hockey Helmet with the clear face shield cover.
That way you can see and be a part of all of the action. I would also include a hockey stick on the boat for more protection and slap shots if needed.
As The Hunter’s Wife, I’m sure you’ve stood by your husband through many a hunting season, so I would have him return the favor this time, stand by you and protect you from getting hit or slimed by these flying creatures from the deep.
Two words: Stay Home
I would fight them off with my superior ninja skills & with nun-chucks. (might have watched too much fight science lately
Or just beat him off with a shotgun. I think you should get to shoot them with a shotgun, how fun would that be??!!!
My husband! Flying carp are scary!
Viking Helmet, Hog Hunting Spear and in the spirit of the shopping stores putting out all their Halloween items, a Skull Mask!! So, now you can spear two with the horns on your helmet, one with the spear and drop one dead at the sight of your mask! Boosting your total to 4 carp at once!!
I think I would wear my motorcycle helmet with a shield. A rain coat for sure and definitely have a tennis racket for protection. And if that didn’t work I would use my husband as a human shield.
I wouldn’t wear anything.. no clothes at all.. that’ll keep the carp at bay… (sorry for the visual)
LMAO!!! I would be usin’ the camera I had in my hand while taking pictures of and laughing my a$$ off at Jody trying to avoid flying carp! OMG! I would love to be a fly in that boat watching that!!
To protect your head, I would have to say a hockey helmet w/cage. If you don’t have access to that, a regular bike helment and some skiing goggles. You’re bowfishing right? Shoot them before they have a chance to smack you
Good luck & have fun!
I like an old motorcycle helmet with bubble style faceshield (cause I had an old motoercycle helmet with bubble style faceshield) and bat them away with an old wooden tennis racket. You can swing a tennis racket quicker than a baseball bat… and to combat fly’n carp you need th’ quickness!
NOT an entry – But Glynn – I’d love it if they’d let us use shotguns! hmm would that be trash fish trap or slimy skeet?
Lets see I’d have on a hockey mask complete with the face mask, my riding slicker, and a catchers mit to load them in the cooler. Who knows maybe someone will eat carp. lol…………. and my the way Mark, David said YES
I would first go to Cabelas buy a helmet and a Gun . As they flew on the boat I would butt them, if that didnt work Id shoot them with the Chocolate ammo. After my adventure I would relax in my Acorn slippers and eat Jerky wearing my Caliber necklace.
Protect myself? WHY? Shoot far, sista, I’d just ride in the boat at usual and let the ‘hit’ land where it may.
BUT. IF I were to choose to protect myself, that’d be simple.
I’d NOT BE
– in that boat;
– on that river;
– anywhere near those crazy-arsed flying carpa piscis. !
Vini Vidi Comedi
Hire a Ninja Cameraman like myself…Sony Z7U’s stand up well to flying Carp!!!
I would say a super cute hot pink bike helmet and a motocross vest. A face guard would just get in the way of my shot!
I would wear a bucket over my head, with holes cut out for the eyes, so I could see the carp coming at me, then zap them with my hot shot to stun them into the boat.
If I had all the bucks I would ever need, I’d get a flotilla of boats to run
abreast down the river to get the beasties jumping. I would be in the door
of a blackhawk shooting down on the flying missiles at a height just safe
enough to not get hit but still be in good bow range. Now we all know that
the standard M-60 door gun would be a lot of fun, and extremely effective,
but you can’t put the help
in harms way. Good beaters are hard to find… Then, when I connected I
would swing the carp into the rotors and into instant chum. While all this
was going down, Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” booming up and down the
river for all to hear… SWEET!
I’m sure I’m not the first person to think of this…but the first thing that came to my mind is, I’d hide behind my husband–so the flying carp would hit him instead of me!
Thanks for the giveaway!
would not catch me on a boat #1
would not go somewhere I need to worry about protecting myself #2
will be home eating chicken as I don’t eat fish #3
Shoot em before they get to me.
I would wear a giant cat costume with a giant paw to swipe at them. It might not work but it would be funny as heck!
How about a specially built carp-proof cage? They make shark proof cages, so why not?
How about just get poison ivy and girl up….;p