Check Out This BOWFIN!!!!

[Norbert]

Wow wow wow! What a really cool looking fish...one more species I can't get in Oregon Looks like a cross between a snakehead and a bichir.

Great pics btw

 

[stotty]

very nice looking fish and a nice catch

 

[toxicfish]

The michigan record is 35", 14lbs.

What lake?

Wow wow wow! What a really cool looking fish...one more species I can't get in Oregon Looks like a cross between a snakehead and a bichir.

Great pics btw

I have heard they are often mistaken for snakeheads and killed

very nice looking fish and a nice catch

Thanks

 

[Camphilophus]

tattooed.. Lol jk, I've never caught a bowfin either and I'm from Michigan. Now I know where I'm going fisihing.. Can't believe something with a color scheme that ridiculous came out of our lakes!

 

[Death Pony]

Amazing looking how big do they get ?

They usually get up to 34"

 

[hotsauce]

dude! damn i wish i could catch one of those here in socal! nice fish!

 

[BLACK ICE]

My buddies lil sister caught one of those in a local pond when they showed me the pics I was shocked! I had no clue we had them here

 

[Aqua Sanctuary]

wow. i have cause a good bit of bowfin and i have never seen that!. COOL!

 

[Twisted Pleasure]

nice bowfin i caught once

 

[Bottomfeeder]

Bowfin, Dogfish, Grinnel, it's all good.
So I hear they have some nasty upper jaw teeth. True? Nasty fish. They eat frogs, fish, rodents, crayfish, maybe even ducklings.
In aquariums wild-caught juviniles usually are loaded with tape worms and may caugh em up...not so good in a tank