What were you fishing for when you caught it?
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by viktor_vaughn_DOOM_1
What exactly is a dog fish? I know the marine type of dog fish just not freshwater.
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by el_monstruo
Appears to be a bowfin which is sometimes referred to as a dogfish.
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by DoomDiver1
Ah, thanks. I have heard them called Grendel before but nothing else. Nice to know.
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by el_monstruo
fishrmans
Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl
Bowfin...Dogfish.. catch a lot of them in Wi. Good fighters, fun to catch. I have not tried eating them.
Bowfin mud fish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupiqueare a good fighting fish. From what I heard they will eat most anything. I have caught a couple of them fishing of the dock on Minnetonka, this one hit on my sucker minnow. I hear them barking a lot in the back water on shallow muddy bays. I guess that's from their ability to gulp air? From what I have read they are actual dinosaurs dating back to the Jurassic period or 200 million years ago.
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