[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-24-06 AT 06:49AM (EST)[/font][p]I agree with CATCHEMALL about how hard Bowfins fight AND they can really mangle a lure, especially a spinnerbait.

Many years ago, when we were still using FLOPPIES in our computers, I played a computer fishing game from a floppy. It had a lot of different ways to lose points, time, baits, and otherwise get penalized. I remember one of them was: "Your bait was just mangled by a Bowfin, lose ten minutes while you retie." I had never seen a Bowfin and had no idea what they were talking about until later than year when I was in Michigan on the Au Sable River and caught a Bowfin. It did in fact mangle my spinnerbait and I understood what the game had been talking about. They are fun to catch but you need to use CHEAP lures if they are in the area.