Bowfins are controversial. The very mention of these “trash fish” on social media can incite warfare in the comments. They ...

The fish species Amia calva goes by many names including bowfin, freshwater dogfish, grinnel, and mud pike. No matter what you call it, this species is an evolutionary enigma because it embodies a ...

A New Jersey state record bowfin was landed last month on the Mantua Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River. The fisherman was Frank Hubert Jr, who resides in Wilmington, Delaware. Hubert told the ...

THREE RIVERS AREA — “Cast to those bushes,” I said to Larry Stark one hot afternoon on an Arkansas oxbow lake. He did as I suggested and retrieved his lure across the bottom. The plastic worm moved ...

Frank Hubert Jr. had been watching the New Jersey weather carefully in mid-December. It had been unseasonably warm for several days, with temperatures rising into the mid-50s. “I knew that warm ...

Southeast Texas sloughs, oxbows, bayous and rivers can fairly vibrate with a primeval energy that either fascinates or intimidates human visitors to swamps. On a fishing trip earlier this month to one ...

Well, the native fish folks are at it again, stirring the pot and doing weird stuff in public. They’re relentless like that—but in a good way. A week ago Friday I joined some of them in fishing for ...

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