Thank you for checking out the Land of Lakes Bowfishing Association’s website. The

LLBA, Minnesota’s only bowfishing association, was founded by bowfisherman

committed to the preservation, promotion, and protection of the sport of bowfishing in

Minnesota. It was the LLBA members who worked with the MN DNR to have a night

season in 2008 and once again we will be enjoying it come June 1, 2009. We have

joined forces with the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance to work with the

Minnesota Legisla-ture and the MN DNR to better bowfishing opportunities and

assure that our sport will be around for future generations. We attend kid’s events and

festivals, as we can, to promote bowfishing to Minnesota’s future sportsmen/women.

And every year LLBA members team up with the John Glenn Cadet Archery Program

to take out 100+ kid’s bowfishing to experience what our great sport has to offer.

If you are not a member I encourage you to think about joining the LLBA. We have a

great group of people from all walks of life. With your membership you will be

eligible to participate in all shoots, events, and have access to the member’s section of

our forum. Your membership includes a yearly subscription to the Midwest Outdoor

magazine which has a monthly club page filled with LLBA news and bowfishing

information. And you will receive the monthly e-newsletter that gives you the most up

to date club information, bowfishing news, and helpful tips. But most importantly you

are supporting an association that seeks increasing opportunities for the sport of

bowfishing and educating Minnesotan’s about our great sport.

Minnesota’s lakes have a lot to offer the bowfishing community and in return we can

help with re-moving invasive and rough fish from its waters. Fish like the Common

carp have been for years destroying the ecosystem of our lakes and rivers and we

would like to assist lake associations who desire to eradicate these fish, just let us

know. Now today Minnesota faces an even bigger threat with the Asian carp. If these

fish take hold in our waters it will only spell out an ecological disaster for our native

fish and wildlife that depend on food from our lakes and rivers. I have asked the MN

DNR to use bowfishing as one method to at-tempt to further locate these fish and their

progress into the state. Time will only tell if they view us to be an additional tool, free

to the tax payers, in the fight against invasive species.

Thanks again for visiting with the LLBA. Enjoy viewing the website and I hope to see

members, new and old, at future shoots and events. And remember the mission of the

LLBA; to preserve, promote, and protect bowfishing in Minnesota.

LLBA President