8-12 pounders on light action rods is a blast!!!! i fish them quite a bit each year.I've caught several Bowfin...great fighters
That is an interesting link ....... I had no idea that people fished for them specifically.
I keep hoping to catch one. They're in a couple of the lakes I fish. But I don't target them. I suppose I'll catch one eventually while fishing for something else, but no luck so far.
We brought 1 home, fried it up and it tasted nasty, so bad we didn't eat it,,, so bad the cat wouldn't even eat it...
Most of the people who caught them way back when (30 years ago) would throw them up on shore as they were considered trash fish, I would see piles of them while walking though the woods.