Mud Muskies aka bowfins

[Johnsfolly]

30 minutes ago, Ham said:

I waiting on numbers to increase before I make a dedicated trip for them

 

If I am still in MD next summer or the following - bring your kayak and we can spend a couple of days chasing northern snakeheads in Blackwater NWR or hit south FL for the bullseye snakehead. Still would love to get you out on the Tar river for american shad and the Neuse for Hickories.

[Ham]

13 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

If I am still in MD next summer or the following - bring your kayak and we can spend a couple of days chasing northern snakeheads in Blackwater NWR or hit south FL for the bullseye snakehead. Still would love to get you out on the Tar river for american shad and the Neuse for Hickories.

I'd Love that too Buddy 

[FishnDave]

44 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Look at you using Fishmap 😁

A wise and experienced piscatorial pursuist keeps trying to introduce me to that website.  Its slowly sinking in... 😜

[FishnDave]

On 8/22/2021 at 7:54 PM, Johnsfolly said:

Swamp muskies are fun to catch. 

"Swamp Musky"?

But I can't have "Missouri Mahseer"??  

🤦‍♂️

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, FishnDave said:

"Swamp Musky"?

But I can't have "Missouri Mahseer"??  

🤦‍♂️

They both are predators that are usually alone when you encounter them.

They both have a mouth full of lure destroying teeth.

They both fight very hard.

They both can take quite a few casts to actually hook one or even land one.

They both make bass fisherman curse when they get them next to the boat 🤣!

I'd say the musky and bowfin (aka BowFun!!) have quite a bit in common. So I'm sticking with swamp musky which I am patenting for the merch potential😅

[45acp]

On 8/22/2021 at 5:26 PM, MoCarp said:

I have noticed bowfins getting some love in the last few years…caught them as a kid down south in the Mobile AL drainages…grinnel is what we called them, fighters that would smash a lure. They would get over 10# regularly, definitely ruin a lure…many states giving them gamefish like protections….buddy of mine told me black river ditches in NE Arkansas we could catch all we wanted…..figure a few should be in some of or weedier waters…cool fish

My daughter finished her undergrad work at William Woods in May.  Biology degree.  She wasn't quite ready to join the rat race so she got a summer gig with MODoC.  She's on a crew doing water quality surveys, mostly in the bootheel area.

They tromp through those field drains with portable shock packs collecting/identifying/quantifying the various aquatic critters that they dip up after zapping the water.  Bowfin are one of the species that they collect in most of those ditches.

[Johnsfolly]

37 minutes ago, 45acp said:

They tromp through those field drains with portable shock packs collecting/identifying/quantifying the various aquatic critters that they dip up after zapping the water. 

I remember doing a lot of that kind of work in my 20's. Only difference is that we had dipnets and water samplers and no shock equipment. Still lots of fun!

[Johnsfolly]

Found this story online. That a big bowfin caught in NY state.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2021/08/western-ny-man-sets-new-state-fishing-record-for-a-bowfin-he-caught-using-cut-bait.html