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Join Date: February 23, 2007
Location: Georgia
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Can you identify this creature?
I know what it is, do you?
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Join Date: February 13, 2011
Location: Freestone County, Texas
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grindle..bowfin..
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Location: Georgia
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good job
I am guessing he was close to 20 lbs. The skull is about 6 inches wide.
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Location: NE FL.......
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The old fishmonger seconds the bowfinn judgment..............
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Prehistoric fish that still lives..in case someone don't know.....
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Its my Ex-Wifes lawyer, I'd know that grin anywhere.
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hahaaa
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Mmmmmm...now I'm hungry...thanks.
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Good God my exwife! I will have nightmares for sure tonight!
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#10 |
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Join Date: July 8, 2010
Location: North Georgia
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YEP, Bofinn caught one last weekend in lake Seminole.
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Join Date: August 5, 2010
Location: Jackson County Florida
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Hey Big P I live on the Florida side of Lake Seminole (assuming we're talking about the same one) I've never heard of this fish let alone seen one...
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Location: Southern Arizona
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Haven't seen one in years. Still as ugly as they were when I used to catch em when I was a kid.
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I thought that was a variant of the mother-in-law fish. I stand corrected.
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Join Date: August 11, 2011
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Wow that fish is just plain creepy lol
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What does that fish eat?
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Join Date: August 5, 2008
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Yep, bowfin or what some around here call a grennel. We used to catch them a lot in swampy sloughs while bass fishing. Tough fish. They can live in a mud hole that's half diesel fuel and survive being out of water way longer than most fish. They will absolutely destroy a bass lure with those teeth. LOL! Also the most inedible fish I know of here in Alabama. I've seen people grind up gar or carp into patties or balls and make it passable as table fare but not a grennel. I'd rather try to eat a shad.
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Chupacabra
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Curious? Is it fish or something belonging to the eel family? You Boys down South got some gen-u-wine nasty looking critters in the waters down there. No chance of skinny-dipping I suppose?
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I was going to say Skookum. But that thing's a fish?! In Florida waters? People wonder why I don't go in the water. Freaking monsters.
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We catch them in TX too...freshwater fish....
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Didn't know you had them down there. They lay in holes or behind obstructions on the river bottom and will jump at anything but if you want to go after them deliberately cray fish, minnows or salamanders are our favorite baits. Stay away from all that stinky bait like some cat fishermen use it just messes up your hands, ruins your lunch and makes your tackle stink. It will work but so will a crappie minnow and they are cheaper.
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Join Date: August 19, 2010
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Around here we call them dogfish. They are very aggresive and will strike just about anything, they have an incredibly strong bite that will tear up a good lure, last time I encountered one it broke the line and I had to say goodye to my favorite jig.
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