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A regular rest will work just fine. People upgrade to the more enclosed rest as bow fishing can involve a lot of movement and the bow fishing specific rests help keep the arrow in place. For a beginner, just use your standard rest, and if you run into trouble with the arrow coming off, maybe look at buying a bow just for bow fishing that you do not mind drilling holes in (if do not come with it already).
Answered on 2/27/2012 by Johnathan Karch from 3Rivers Archery
