Bowfin?

Bowfin is the only freshwater gamefish i have never caught... and it appears that the merrimack river holds them? does anyone know if this myth is true

Taunton River has bowfin

have u ever caught one

DW Field in brockton has them

have u ever caught one

http://www.bowfinanglers.com/ma.html

That's an interesting looking fish. What is used or what style fishing is used in catching them?

Last edited by pocketfisherman on Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:03 pm; edited 1 time in total

That's an interested looking fish. What is used or what style fishing is used in catching them?

They are a by catch of bass fishing all the time up in Champlain. I know a few that were caught in my club tourney last weekend. Im sure there is a more precise way to catch them .

Kinda looks like a snakehead?

They do look very similar to snakeheads, I sell tropical fish and I stock juvenile bowfin sometimes and people buy them because real snakeheads are illegal. Really cool fish, I might have to get to DW in brockton, I bet they put up a good fight!

Ive fished the Taunton for years and never caught one in there. Ive caught stripers, smallies, pike, tigers, walleye. but never a bowfin. not surprised though

I have been told by a very reliable source, a white spinnerbait or a shiner on a slip rig..In a certain spot in the Taunton river, about 2-3 weeks a year..

I know the Taunton River and DW in Brockton have quite a few... That shallow, front pond at DW that is filled with muck is loaded with them. They gulp air, so they love weedy, low-oxygen places. They eat lots of little mammals and like bigz said, a bass bycatch. If I were to go fish them there, which I may, I would use a frog/or plastics in those shallows.

A couple CT river tributaries hold em. Never heard of them in the Merrimac, but who knows.

Their flesh is trash... My man from New Orleans calls them ShoePigs. He's a good buddy and fishing partner, always up for adventure, and told me to go fly a kite when I asked him to fish DW for them with me.

In New Orleans, they live in any highway run off puddle.

What pond on the dw would be your best bet for bowfin? And how likely is it that you'll hook into one? I'm interested and thinking of giving it a shot. Thanks!

What pond on the dw would be your best bet for bowfin? And how likely is it that you'll hook into one? I'm interested and thinking of giving it a shot. Thanks!

I think he's talking about upper Porter pond. At the entrance to the park. I've heard of people catching them occasionally there. I just started to become interested in Bowfin recently and have yet to catch one. I live not far from D-Dubs. I don't fish it as much as I should though. I've caught a few bass out of there from shore and back in the early 80's the state used to stock it with trout. I yak fish mostly and the only place you can launch a yak or canoe is thirty acre pond across from the entrance to the park. Haven't done that yet either and I've lived in Brockton 25+ years.

DW Field in brockton has them

Say what? First I've heard of that. Which pond?