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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:10:26 PM EDT
[Last Edit: doc540]
"Amia Calva" or bowfin, grinnel, mudfish, swamp trout
They have both gills and lungs and can come up to gulp air when the water has no oxygen. They can burrow into the mud during drought and go into a kind of suspended animation until it rains again. On spinning tackle they are a serious fighter, and will eat any other living bait. I think they're by far the hardest fighting freshwater fish. Some are colored a beautiful green. Considered by most sportsmen to be a "trash fish", the Cajuns will eat them like they eat everything that lives.     
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:14:28 PM EDT
[#1]
Mudfish? Many times.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:15:22 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nefarious1: Mudfish? Many times. Hard fighter, no? I've had them roll like a gator. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:15:46 PM EDT
[#3]
A bowfin? Yeah.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:16:34 PM EDT
[#4]
So, it’s like Cajun soul food?
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:17:01 PM EDT
[#5]
Caught one once in some mid size crick in central Missourah.
Tossed it back. IIRC there were some gar in there with it. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:20:06 PM EDT
[#6]
bowfins/grinnels
all the time in SE OK. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:23:04 PM EDT
[#7]
You should have seen the look on my 20 something year old face the first time I ever caught one. Didn’t know what the damn thing was. I thought i caught something rare until I finally figured out what it was. Up until then I didn’t even know they existed.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:24:03 PM EDT
[#8]
Caught quite a few.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:25:31 PM EDT
[#9]
I hooked one in a gravel pit in Southeast Texas in the early 1980's. First one I had ever seen. I beat that thing off the hook wit a boat paddle after i saw the teeth.
Lake Livingston is full of them now on the north end now. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:25:41 PM EDT
[#10]
I clicked for sturgeon pics.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:27:03 PM EDT
[#11]
Don't have them around here, the most prehistoric fish I catch around here is sturgeon.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:27:06 PM EDT
[#12]
We call them Choupique where I'm from and yes I've caught them
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MP, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:27:48 PM EDT
[#13]
I pull them off the dock at my dad's place all the time. They will eat any trash bait I put out.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:30:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: fingas]
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lungbuster: I clicked for sturgeon pics. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:30:35 PM EDT
[#15]
I caught one that weighed 4.5 pounds fishing for crappie in Lake Okeechobee in 2000. It damn near broke my jigging pole. It was one of the hardest fighting fish I had caught in fresh water.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:30:47 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nefarious1: Mudfish? Many times. This |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:33:24 PM EDT
[#17]
Had the TN state record for almost 10 years back in the late 70s 14 lbs 12 oz caught on a rod and reel. Yes they are good eating.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:35:56 PM EDT
[#18]
Does Alligator Gar count?
 (not my fish but caught a smaller one) |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:38:38 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lungbuster: I clicked for sturgeon pics.  Attached File15' is the biggest one I have ever hooked on the Columbia below Bonivile dam |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:42:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: California_Kid]
[#20]
I've heard of Mud Sharks (i.e. Dogfish Sharks) but never that frightening thing.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:44:26 PM EDT
[#21]
I can smell this thread...
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:46:52 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GaryM: Caught one once in some mid size crick in central Missourah. Tossed it back. IIRC there were some gar in there with it. whats a crick? |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:47:42 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By eeshooter45: Does Alligator Gar count? https://s3.amazonaws.com/busites_www/tsfmag/meta/page/0209WEB_smartt_1486678490.jpg (not my fish but caught a smaller one) we catch them all the time. short nose gar? alligator gar |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 10:53:32 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: whats a crick? Back in Michigan my relatives had a small crick which ran through the swamp. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 11:26:42 PM EDT
[#25]
No, but I caught another prehistoric one. A sturgeon. Just a few weeks ago.
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WI, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2024 11:39:44 PM EDT
[#26]
We call em Dogfish up here.
They'll smash topwater lures in one of the small local lakes. Also have caught a bajillion lake sturgeon, and ONE paddlefish in the Chippewa river. Probably the rarest catch in my lifetime, they're not known to be in my area of the river! The paddlefish scared the fuck outta me... I thought it was a shark lol |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 11:46:39 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: whats a crick? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: Originally Posted By GaryM: Caught one once in some mid size crick in central Missourah. Tossed it back. IIRC there were some gar in there with it. whats a crick? Pain/discomfort one gets in the neck. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 11:56:37 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guyknight: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/this-gif-793.gif 15' is the biggest one I have ever hooked on the Columbia below Bonivile dam |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:08:15 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fingas: We call them Choupique where I'm from and yes I've caught them |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:13:29 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: whats a crick? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OKnativeson: Originally Posted By GaryM: Caught one once in some mid size crick in central Missourah. Tossed it back. IIRC there were some gar in there with it. whats a crick? |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:14:21 AM EDT
[#31]
We catch pike here and eels have started running again.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:14:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Suhrthing]
[#32]
They're called blackfish or bowfin in east NC, and i've caught MANY.
Yes they put up a helluva fight for their size, and they're hell on tackle. I couldn't care less if I never caught another one. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:20:03 AM EDT
[#33]
I caught one in Lake Shelbyville, Illinois about 40 years ago. Had no idea what it was. We had it on the shore for several hours and someone walked by and said it was a "dogfish," also known as a Bowfin. Anyway, we kicked it back into the lake and it swam off! The thing had been out of the water for hours and it was still alive able to swim - crazy.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:25:38 AM EDT
[#34]
Baw dats some Choupique
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:30:12 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lungbuster: I clicked for sturgeon pics. Same here. Lol! |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:40:51 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Karankawa]
[#36]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By eeshooter45: Does Alligator Gar count? https://s3.amazonaws.com/busites_www/tsfmag/meta/page/0209WEB_smartt_1486678490.jpg (not my fish but caught a smaller one) Dang. Thought the one I caught was big and it wasn’t half that size. My oldest brother was terrified of gar and water moccasins. I chased him with both. Once across the spillway at Balmorhea. He’s a big guy and not scared of anything else. Pretty funny. Man we had fun there. I was used to catfish and it’s crazy how fast gar die out of water. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:41:02 AM EDT
[#37]
Originally Posted By Bigtwin: Don't have them around here, the most prehistoric fish I catch around here is sturgeon. #metoo |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 12:43:13 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guyknight: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/this-gif-793.gif 15' is the biggest one I have ever hooked on the Columbia below Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By guyknight: Originally Posted By Lungbuster: I clicked for sturgeon pics. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/this-gif-793.gif 15' is the biggest one I have ever hooked on the Columbia below Fixed it for you.  Those things get huge. My grandfather had pics of them pulling one out with a team of mules. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:27:59 AM EDT
[#39]
Looks like a snakehead fish.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:29:31 AM EDT
[#40]
I had to look up the difference. Pretty cool how the Bowfin is Native to America. It certainly looks prehistoric.
 Attached File |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:32:35 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BillofRights: I had to look up the difference. Pretty cool how the Bowfin is Native to America. It certainly looks prehistoric. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/12451/IMG_2794_png-3212232.JPG Wonder if they are related somehow? Snakeheads are non-native and invasive. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:33:30 AM EDT
[#42]
Sure have.
My cousin caught a master angler one here in MI. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:44:49 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GaryM: Caught one once in some mid size crick in central Missourah. Tossed it back. IIRC there were some gar in there with it. Where is Missourah |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 4:00:02 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K30MuleLAR15: Where is Missourah |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 4:05:05 AM EDT
[#45]
There’s a place I go in the river that is just loaded with bowfin and gar.
The first bowfin I caught in my kayak was pretty exciting. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 5:27:00 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lungbuster: I clicked for sturgeon pics. You weren't the only one. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 5:27:42 AM EDT
[#47]
Yup, caught quite a few. The first one I caught was in Lake George, Florida....and I grabbed it by the lip. I was probably 12 or 13 yrs old, and was used to normal freshwater fish from Georgia, not dinosaur fish with piranha teeth that wanted to eat you.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 5:50:10 AM EDT
[#48]
Nope. Caught my 1st saw fish though. That was cool.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 6:17:22 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nefarious1: Mudfish? Many times. And alligator gar. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 6:19:20 AM EDT
[#50]
I was expecting the Sawtooth fish. Even after reading all of that, i still hate this fish. Yeah, I've caught Bowfin before.
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