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They're called bowfin, grinnel, grindle, dogfish, etc....same fish, different name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowfin
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Yeah, I always called them "grinnel" as a kid. Odd, how our Encyclopedia Britannica didn't have an entry for them, as you know that was way before the internet.
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I could be wrong on this one, but I've always thought that Bowfins and Dogfish are one and the same. Sort of a Custodial Engineer/Janitor thing. They do put up one heckuva fight
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Turn your head and.....
I was still on page 1 when I quoted lol
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They're pretty much considered useless and eat so much of the baitfish that people wanna kill em off
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Since we have such a dense population of them where I live, I've called them Bowfin, Grinnel, oh damn's, and peices of $H!7. The way I see it is that since so many bass and other speices are thinned out by harvesting, it's not going to make much of a difference if I do split a bowfin from gullet to butthole... Bowfin decimate the fingerling bass population and the few I catch and get rid of aren't going to affect the population as a whole.
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Then why do it?
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He's referring to the Dogfish population. Not the bass population. I think
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The while the bowfin may not be a trash fish, it does compete for territory with largemouth bass and since largemouth are heavily harvested and bowfin aren't, something needs to be done to thin out the population. Plus I had one destroy my LC Redemption Spinnerbait... and that just ain't cool.
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Yeah....what a jerk that fish was to destroy a lure meant to fool fish into attacking it. Damn those stupid Bowfin...don't they know spinnerbaits are just for bass?
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Had me for a minute there when I first started reading. I am glad there was a pic. We call them grennel or cypress bass down here. They do put up a heck of a fight though.
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The fish wasn't a jerk for destroying a spinnerbait, but rather, having the gaul to destroy an expensive spinnerbait. I for one have no problem when mudfish remember their place, but they have no business hitting $5+ spinnerbaits, dry flies, salmon flies or topwaters, and I am prepared, if elected guvanah of alubama, to remind the grinnel of its proper place with force if nessesarie. |
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