Green finned Bowfin

[BassAddict]

I caught a Bowfin in one of the ponds I fish and I don't recall ever seeing one with colors like this little guy. He ate a 10" lizard too. I wonder if they are spawning and that has something to do with the green color. I don't know . Cool looking though.

Eric

[flbassman]

Weird. Did you keep him?

[bayoufisher1]

We call them a choupique, and yes the green color is when they spawn. I love to catch them because of their fighting ability.

[skeeter944]

those look awsome! i want some of them in my pond!

[Fishing4Soup]

i wish i had those in a pond near me! They look like hard fighters.

[Bender]

I caught one of those 3 springs ago. At the time I wasn't 100% sure what it was since I had just started fishing in MI and didn't have them in the ponds I used to fish in Indiana and Ohio, not that I had ever caught anyway. They are pretty strange looking.

[jordan41]

wow ive never really seen a fish like that looks like a fun fish to catch.

[Floridafisherman]

the ones i catch are only gray is that weird?

[pig n jig]

Didn't you lip him ? I anit ever seen the green fins like that, we call them grinnel , or dogfish here.Why would the male have green fins ? That is a male there right ? I have seen a bright orange ring around the black spot on their tails before, whats that all about ? P N J

[flamez]

lol just the other day i was fishing some super shallow water because i was getting tired of catching bass so i start throwing in these backwater coves with the intent on getting a good bite but ofcourse all i would get was bass my friend comes over tosses his buzzbait first cast and nails a mudfish xD made fun of him the whole day everytime i hooked into a fish ide say G i hope this fish is a mudfish and ofcourse it would only be a bass kept telling him i sure am tired of getting this bycatch im just nothing like you master mudfisherman xD caught around 25 bass :P

[zooker]

it is a strike eye pnj -same as on a peacock bass- predatory fish or birds would hit the tail -some thing that would grow back- not a fatlal strike to the head..

zooker

[BassAddict]

Man those things fight like crazy for sure. Especially if you get a big one. Here's a picture of one I caught ealier this year in the same pond. It probably weighed 7-8 lbs. I caught one in the pond behind this one that weighed 9.7 lbs. That's was an AWESOME fight! They are nasty though.

Eric

[Floridafisherman]

yea they are, they can do some damage to your fingers if you put them near there mouth

[flamez]

lol im the crazy guy sticking my hand down a seatrouts mouth a mudfish mouth dont scare me just ask tournyfisher

[seaphantom]

Bowfin are great to catch... very strong fighters, vicious strikers... not bad looking...

I don't see why people hate them so much, (probably because they're annoying @ tourneys, when you have to only catch bass).

a great gamefish.



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