A little help please…not sure what this
Yes, bowfin, or locally mudfish. They’ve got some mean teeth.
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Delicious. Tastes like chicken
They put up a good fight! I could never understand why they are not classed as a game fish.
ZX
Thanks guys. I was thinking Snakehead. Now I know.
Clean as soon as you catch…they can get mushy on you…and not in the loving way 
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Wasnt there a thread saying they ingest a lot of toxins and should be avoided?
Vegas Dave
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Originally posted by 30.06HammerThanks guys. I was thinking Snakehead. Now I know.
But, you played this wise and level-headed. Usually, several times a summer, we get someone on here ranting and raving that they caught a snakehead, 100% sure it was a snakehead. Then, they post a pic, and it’s a bowfin. 
They are one of the more interesting fish we have around here, really.
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Originally posted by Vegas DaveWasnt there a thread saying they ingest a lot of toxins and should be avoided?
Vegas Dave
Yes, they are more prone to having toxins, I think PCB’s and mercury are the big deal.
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We had 10 pounders in my lake at Hickory Hills.Bet they are huge now
Stonoman
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we have them in the savannah river all the way up to the lock and dam. you can see them hanging out right below the surface under a shady limb. they will follow the bait to the boat and chase it in a figure 8 pattern. fearless lil fish!
Back in the mid-80’s a buddy of mine was bass fishing in the Cooper River, and hooked a big mudfish on a spinnerbait.
He didn’t have a net, so he clamped a pair of vise-grips on his lower jaw to hold him while he got his bait back.
Long story short, the mudfish started twisting, and he lost his grip, watching as he swam off with his vise-grips still firmly clamped.
The following Saturday, I was fishing just outside the cut going into the old Berkeley Country Club landing, and saw something shiny out of the corner of my eye. It was his mudfish, with the vise-grips still clamped on.
I pitched a redshad Culprit worm at him a couple of times, finally got him to bite, and retrieved his pliers.
It told me two things…real vise-grips are good tools, and mudfish are almost indestructible.
sparkleberry (swamp) sailfish
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now that’s a great fish story Pitcher.
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Originally posted by Vegas DaveWasnt there a thread saying they ingest a lot of toxins and should be avoided?
Vegas Dave
Like any top of the food chain water predator as they grow and age they can build up a tad more mercury from eating all the lower food chain neighbors. Just like a large cat fish or large mouth bass.
I’ve eaten many, very underrated fish. Much better than swai or tilapia imo. I’ll guarantee I could make a “cat” fish stew out of mudfish and one with cat fish and you’d never know the difference.
Biggest odd thing about them is fresh hot out the grease the meat texture is very soft. let them cool a bit and it firms up.
30.06 what cracker said about the teeth and also look out for the sharp gill plates that love to get tangled in a net.
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Originally posted by fishnjimsparkleberry (swamp) sailfish
If you ain’t retie’n, you aint try’n…
Yep!!
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