Bowfin Anglers

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Awesome sight. I agree with the sentiment they are one of the toughest native fish. The only time I have ever broken my 40lb test braid was when a bowfin took my Rapala while fishing for bass. Snapped the line in less than 10 seconds!
 
I love those fish, never caught one on a line, though. I was doing a project a couple of years ago sorting old Parks and WIldlife documents in a library. It killed me to read how many of these great fish were rotenoned (chemically slaughtered) when the Reservoir builing spree of the 1940's through 60's was going on. They were considered "rough fish" and killed off to make way for stocked LMBs, Bluegill, channel cats, and flat heads for the most part. It's a shame.

Anyway, thanks for the link, I enjoyed it.
 
I have seen it before, it is a great site. I have never caught a bowfin though or even seen a live wild specimen. I know a few places where they lurk, I just haven't caught one yet.
Make sure you check out the sister site..
http://www.garfishing.com/

EDIT: That www.roughfish.com site is pretty cool as well.
 
rjmtx;1188182; said:
I love those fish, never caught one on a line, though. I was doing a project a couple of years ago sorting old Parks and WIldlife documents in a library. It killed me to read how many of these great fish were rotenoned (chemically slaughtered) when the Reservoir builing spree of the 1940's through 60's was going on. They were considered "rough fish" and killed off to make way for stocked LMBs, Bluegill, channel cats, and flat heads for the most part. It's a shame.

Anyway, thanks for the link, I enjoyed it.
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It is a shame that dogfish have a bad reputation.
We use to kill them, even though we loved to ceatch them. They give a great fight. We stopped killing them about 20 years ago, Saddle Lake in Michigan was filled with stunted bluegill, and lots of big dogfish (5-9.5 lbs).
We started letting dogfish go to controll the bluegill population, and from there we saw the light. They are a great fish, that deserves repect.
 
rjmtx;1188182; said:
I love those fish, never caught one on a line, though. I was doing a project a couple of years ago sorting old Parks and WIldlife documents in a library. It killed me to read how many of these great fish were rotenoned (chemically slaughtered) when the Reservoir builing spree of the 1940's through 60's was going on. They were considered "rough fish" and killed off to make way for stocked LMBs, Bluegill, channel cats, and flat heads for the most part. It's a shame.

Anyway, thanks for the link, I enjoyed it.
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It is a shame that dogfish have a bad reputation.
We use to kill them, even though we loved to ceatch them. They give a great fight. We stopped killing them about 20 years ago, Saddle Lake in Michigan was filled with stunted bluegill, and lots of big dogfish (5-9.5 lbs).
We started letting dogfish go to controll the bluegill population, and from there we saw the light. They are a great fish, that deserves repect.
I always practice ceatch & release with Dogfish.
 
ewurm;1187194; said:
Awesome sight. I agree with the sentiment they are one of the toughest native fish. The only time I have ever broken my 40lb test braid was when a bowfin took my Rapala while fishing for bass. Snapped the line in less than 10 seconds!
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braided line is notorious for becoming worn and frayed, i cut the last 20' off almost every time i go fishing. I had the same thing happen with 60 lb braid Pbass fishing, the line was a week old, but had been used heavy for 3 days steady.
 
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