Talk:Bowfin
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"They can grow up to 10 meters in length, and weigh 7 kg" Hmm... that's one lightweight bowfin. Also considerably a lot longer that what fishbase reports. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.81.142.154 (talk) 19:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] American Caviar
Thought this was interesting, It produces the only true American Caviar, said to rival Russian. I threw in a link at the bottom. See if you like it, or delete it if too commercial.... Msjayhawk (talk) 02:02, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] orange spot
this needs to say something about the orange spot that distinguishes males from females.
==Nocturnal Feeders?== Whoever wrote this article doesn't know a thing about bowfin behavior, or has not observed them extensively in the wild. Bowfin are more apt to feed in the middle of the day as in the dead of night. Using the term "nocturnal" implies that the fish is exclusively a night feeder, and remains torpid or under cover during daylight hours. This is obviously false. While bowfin may occasionally feed at night, they hunt and feed throughout the daylight hours. An argument could be made that they are crepuscular, but even this is a stretch. Bowfin are sight feeders, attacking their living prey from ambush points.
- Do you have a source to cite for all this? The ones in the external links don't seem to mention day or night, which suggests that the "nocturnal" should be deleted, but we need a citeable reference to add anything else. Stan 14:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I remember growing up and fishing the lakes of central Florida, Mud Lake in Polk City, Florida in particular, catching Bowfin (Mudfish is what we called them). We caught them typically from 2 hours after sunrise until the midafternoon. They would hit lures intended for largemouth bass in the areas typically inhabited by largemouth bass. We also caught a number of largemouth bass with bite scars from Bowfin (Mudfish). Many times we would find dead bass on the surface as well that had similar scars. This was about 1982-1985. These were not alligator bite scars either, the rows of teeth marks were two narrow, and alligators were still endangered at that time.Fyrdawg589 12:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Update to feeding patterns: I landed one tonight at 1945 May 16, 2007 on Lake Murray from a dock in Chapin, South Carolina. He was approximately 8 pounds and put up a tough fight. Scratched my lure all to pieces as well. He was caught on a 3/4 ounce surface popper that was marketed for catching striped bass. It does somewhat resemble a baby largemouth bass.
Sunset for tonight was forecast to be at 2021 EDT, and we have an approaching cold front that really has the atmosphere churned up right now.
Finally in true mudfish form he evacuated his bowels all over my dock when I pulled him out of the water as well.Fyrdawg589 00:36, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Splitting Ammiiformes
Granted, there is only one living member today, but, shouldn't we split Ammiiformes off, especially since we want to eventually get around to discussing the other, albeit extinct, species?--Mr Fink 16:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Trash fish"
They're not so trashy. Smoked, they're really excellent. Rich like salmon.
