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 ...

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 ...

On more than one occasion, I have taken the liberty of bragging to my friends about my world-record catch. Claiming to hold a world record draws curious looks and demands question. I proudly proclaim ...

If you can’t beat ’em, hook ’em. That’s the theme next week at Highland Park Fish Camp, where they’re staging another Mr. Mud fishing tournament in and around the St. Johns. Rarely does a name better ...

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 ...

Pop quiz. Pick the best answer or answers. You have 30 seconds. Go. A bowfin is: 1) A freshwater fish so ugly it’s a mercy they’re uncommon. They have a prehistoric body style unchanged by Mother ...

You'll need to catch a Gravid Bowfin in Monster Hunter Wilds to complete the Fishing for a Favor side mission. This is actually much harder than it sounds, given that the Gravid Bowfin can be found ...

The bowfin, has just been added to the Massachusetts list of fish eligible for pin awards. This little-known species, more common in the Midwest and South, will take the place of the no-longer-awarded ...

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While Wilds doesn’t have true aquatic combat, it does have a plethora of rare fish to catch whether for requests or for journal completion. One of the slightly rarer catches needed for one of the ...