Sons Bowfin

[LefroyFisherman]

Haven't had the boat out as of yet, but my son and I have been hitting local rivers and inlets around Innisfil on Simcoe. Today he caught a 7-8 pound Bowfin. He caught it all by himself, I'm surprised the line didn't snap! Got a good picture of it flipping out of our hands. He managed to catch some sunfish, rockbass, bass, perch, Bowfin, and 2 gobies today which we killed.

 

 

[Musky Plug]

Looks like a great day! Congrats! 

[Bill]

Great catch for the young lad

[Garfisher]

If you hold them upside down they'll go into a tonic state and not thrash about haha

[LefroyFisherman]

Interesting

[David Chong]

Did your hands go green?

[LefroyFisherman]

Nope, is that a thing? Because of the spawning I guess. 

[David Chong]

9 hours ago, LefroyFisherman said:

Nope, is that a thing? Because of the spawning I guess. 

Yes, I've had  the fluorescent green on their underside come off on my carpet in the past. Really weird!

[lew]

The smile on the little guys face tells the whole story !!

I never caught a bowfin, infact don't think I've ever even seen one but they sure look like they could give you a real tussle.

[misfish]

I,ll bet he was real excited to fight that one .

Have a caught a few while flipp,n for bass . They hit hard and fight like crazy. You think you got a mother of a bucket on, til their head comes up and ya say,well you know.LOL

 

[LefroyFisherman]

Oh ya it was a good fight, I’ve never caught one either lol! His rod was bent over like crazy. 

[AKRISONER]

Buggers always make me think I’ve got a PB largemouth on lol. They eat frogs too and cut 40lb braid like a bugger!

[OhioFisherman]

17 hours ago, LefroyFisherman said:

Oh ya it was a good fight, I’ve never caught one either lol! His rod was bent over like crazy. 

We used to catch them once in awhile were Akri is located, they seemed to average around 4=6 pounds, they get much bigger though, one of my friends got one pushing 20 pounds there.