do you know what this is?

[brian randolph]

I said bowfin but I'll leave it to the

[TurbineBlade]

Looks like a bowfin to me -- ask Dalton, he seems to get into those.  

Gene

[Scott Stankus]

I've never actually seen a bowfin, but I think you're right!

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[Rex Moore]

Or choupique (shoo-pick) as we called them in Louisiana:

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[Rob Snowhite]

Yup. Only seen them pickled in lab. Still want to see one in the wild and cast to it. Heard they are quite ferocious. 

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Or choupique (shoo-pick) as we called them in Louisiana:

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[Rex Moore]

I actually had one jump into my boat at night while frogging in Bayou Vermilion near Lafayette, Louisiana. Flopped right in front of my face while we were motoring along. That was over 30 years ago, and I still haven't quite recovered from the shock. :)

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[Dalton Terrell]

That looks like a spinnerbait to me, but I'm no expert...but definitely a bowfin hanging from it.

I haven't seen or caught any around here, but caught several in North Carolina as well as one in Michigan. Sweet fish!

Dalton

[Dave Stephenson]

Bowfin. I grew up down in southeastern Virginia swamps we used to catch him all the time. Some of the old-timers called them a grinnel if I remember correctly. Incidentally they taste like mud

[TurbineBlade]

Rex - I enjoy frog gigging and did some just a few weeks ago in MO.  You have to watch where you step and whatnot, but that's some real backwoods fun!  I don't think MO has anything on the Bayou though.....you guys have all kinds of random species down there.

I'd actually like to catch a bowfin but don't fish in places that have them.  Cool catch --

Gene

[Brian]

Yeah, looks like spinnerbait to me, too, but it wasn't my fish.  A friend of a friend caught it and sent the pic to me for identification.  Catch location:  NC.

[Scott Stankus]

FYI, I've also heard bowfin called blackfish. 

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Yeah, looks like spinnerbait to me, too, but it wasn't my fish.  A friend of a friend caught it and sent the pic to me for identification.  Catch location:  NC.

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[Misha Gill]

DINOSAUR FISH! Only time I ran into one was one the bank of the James River. It had a hook in its gut and line coming out its mouth, but the sucker was still alive! I almost didn't do anything because I thought it was a snakehead, but then I took pity and put it back in the water. Not that that changed the ultimate outcome, in all probability, but at least the fish got to choose the location of its final disposition. 

[Greggory DiSalvo]

you can get into bowfin on the Mattaponi, but the upper river gets super low in the summer.  Beautiful canoe trip where you have to portage over some trees here and there.  

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