IF YOU DIDN’T know better, you may have assumed the fish was dead. You could have easily walked by it, a passing glance convincing you it was just a rotten log. Its dull gray back is the same color as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Cast to those bushes," I said to Larry Stark one hot afternoon on an Arkansas oxbow lake. He did as I suggested and crawled his lure over the muddy bottom. It traveled maybe three feet before it ...

(Tribune News Service) — The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum's USS Bowfin will be temporarily unavailable for tours starting Sept. 17 as the 80-year-old submarine undergoes scheduled maintenance and ...

The Gravid Bowfin in Monster Hunter Wilds is a fish you need to catch for the 'Fishing for Flavor' side quest that you pick up from Kayna at the Base Camp in Scarlet Forest. This fish is a bit of a ...