Good way to harvest baby bowfin??
- Thread starter chefrific
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now ive never tried fishing for them. Ive never actualy seen one. But i have done research in the past on them. They love slow moveing bacwatter areas. like marshs and stuff sorta like lungfish. But not as stagnet. You could try takeing a minnow trap type made out of wire place it with the top of it sticking out the watter a inch or two. And useing tadpoles and baby bluegills as bait inside it.
cast net works the best for catching any fish from the wild as long as the fish are small its a big section of webbing with wights on the ends to make it sink faster you throw it out and pull it in as fast as you can check a hunting / fishing store for them useually pretty cheap
If you want to actively fish for them (instead of trapping, which isn't a bad idea), I'd try jigging around debris in backwaters or pools with some stinkbait or cut or live minnows. I've never hooked little bowfin, but I've never really tried. Try rivers or creeks rather than reservoirs, because of early kill-offs (by govt agencies during impoundment) and aggressive stocking of gamefish that goes on.
We catch them in the shallows (especially where it is rocky or weedy) with fish tank nets. Sometimes we get them in the seine, but I really don't think there is a proven method for catching them.
1"~2" bowfin will still swarm over the male so even your hands work. You really don't need complicated equipment when bowfin are this small.
I've attached a link where I photographed a group at this size http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27704&highlight=bowfin
I've attached a link where I photographed a group at this size http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27704&highlight=bowfin
gar man;2054999; said:
They don't exists naturally near Council Bluffs Iowa. So I'd say you really don't have much of a chance finding them locally in the wild.
