Bowfishing Bows · Ranked by CareScore™
No filter. A $280 bare Cajun and a $500 lever-cam sit on the same sheet. Price does the talking. Span keeps a cheap bow with a skinny window from winning on sticker alone. Read the notes: some streets include a reel and some do not.
Who this is for: Shooters who want the most printed water-spec per dollar, kit or bare.
The short answer
The best bowfishing bow for the money (best value) is the Cajun Shore Runner EV with a CareScore of 76.7/100 at $279.99, ahead of the Muzzy V2 (60.9).
Ranked by the published CareScore v1.1.8 methodology with weights re-tuned for this buyer — June 2026 data.
The cheap Cajun. $279.99 for the bow. No reel in the box. 3.2 pounds, a 7-inch brace, 32 inches axle to axle, 20–50 pounds. Constant draw up to 30 inches — they never print a floor, so draw length stays blank. Sold out on the maker page at fetch. The SKU is still on the collection.
Muzzy's adjustable water compound. 25–55 pounds, 25–31.5 inches of draw, 33.8 inches axle to axle, a 7.8-inch brace, 70% let-off, 3.95 pounds. Extra-long limb bolts so you can change string without a press. Right hand is $299.99 on FeraDyne at fetch. Left hand is $349.99 on the same page. We used the RH street and wrote the clash down.
Thirty-one inches axle to axle. 6.375 inches of brace. Twenty to fifty pounds. Cajun built this one for the front deck, not a treestand. Bear's current street is the Reclaim ready-to-fish kit at $459.99. The older Winch Pro kit is the same bow at $499.99 — we did not add it as a second product.
Same 30-inch platform as the F-31. Lighter limbs. $299.99, SKU 1601296, in stock. 15–29 pounds instead of 25–40. That is why both ship: the span and the peak are different scored numbers, not a reel kit. Still 8 inches of brace, still 4 pounds, still zero let-off, still right hand only.
Fin-Finder's standard water compound, not a Cajun. $309.99, in stock, SKU 1601197. Thirty inches axle to axle, an 8-inch brace, 25–40 pound limbs, zero let-off cams, four pounds, right hand only. They print snap-shooting on the page. Draw length is 'up to 31 inches' with no floor, so that spec stays blank.
AMS's no-let-off dual cam with the RAP post system. 24–50 pounds, 22–32 inches of draw, 7.5-inch brace, 3.25 pounds. Axle-to-axle is 34.75 inches on the 50-pound post and 34 on the 40-pound post — we recorded 34.75 and wrote the other number down. Maker PDPs 403'd at fetch. Specs match the AMS product copy that still ranks in search, plus bowfishing.shop at $449.99 and Sutherlands' B820-LH.
The current Deviant. It is a Muzzy, not a Cajun. Hybrid lever-cam, 15–50 pounds, 19–29 inches of draw, 7.1-inch brace, 60% let-off, 3.8 pounds. FeraDyne's bare-bow variant is $499.99 (SKU 9000) and was sold out at fetch. The $599.99 Pro Kit is the same bow plus a reel. We dropped the kit.
