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Anyone enjoy "trash fish?"

Some of the hardest fighting, most aggressive fish I've ever caught are Bowfin. I have no idea why these aren't more popular. I don't eat largemouths so not being edible is no reason not to target Bowfin. I've heard their meat is so nasty even dogs won't eat them. But nothing, and I mean nothing, in the lakes and rivers I fish attack for fight like Bowfin. In the summer, they come up twisting back and forth to the point their tails are hitting their own noses. And they will try and bite you. They have a rock hard head and many many sharp teeth. Snakeheads have nothing on these native fish. I picked this one slowly up boucing a jig along a dam for winter bass some years ago.