Ben Erb is a lifelong fisherman and Minnesotan who likes catching bass and walleyes just as much as the next guy. But his secret passion is targeting what others might call “rough fish,” hardy but ...

Frank Hubert Jr. with the state-record bowfin he caught in December; Hubert caught the fish on a custom lure that his nephew made. Photos courtesy Frank Hubert Jr. Frank Hubert Jr. had been watching ...

Jimmy Fee with a bowfin that sucked up a fresh shad chunk. September is a funky month. It’s still kind of summer but also a little bit fall. It’s a transitional time, which means summer patterns for ...

Karl L. Gasko, of Syracuse, holds up an impressive 29-inch bowfin caught by his son, Karl J. Gasko, on Oneida Lake, behind Castaways Restaurant. The fish was caught on a minnow. According to a chart ...

The question of bowfin vs snakehead isn’t so much a matter of which is better—but of which is which. These long, snake-like fish are easily confused with one another. And that’s a problem, because ...

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Minnesota recently opened a catch-and-release record category for bowfin, or as they're known in different regions: mudfish, grinnel, choupique, or dogfish. While not considered one of America's ...

Daniel Peck, of Westvale, holds up a 34 1/2 inch,l 14-pound bowfin he caught in the Seneca River in August. It was caught about 1/2 mile east of the bridge in downtown Baldwinsville. Peck used a small ...

The first state record fish for 2021 has come to the scales, this time in Monroe County. Chase Soptelean of Brockport was fishing for northern pike in Yanty Creek with cut bait when something hit his ...

For the past 30 years, the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park has paid $1 a year for its waterfront spot next to the Arizona Memorial visitor center, officials said. That’s about to change in a big ...