My wife caught a Bowfin near Rockland last year. I wasn't with her, but we've caught them at Conneaut before so I know she can identify one. Now I wonder if it was a Burbot or if these are the same fish?
My wife caught a Bowfin near Rockland last year. I wasn't with her, but we've caught them at Conneaut before so I know she can identify one. Now I wonder if it was a Burbot or if these are the same fish?
Very cool, Rockland is right around my camp. Would love to run into a Bowfin someday. Was your wife fishing with livebait?
Nope, she was using a musky mayhem showgirl
Thats awesome. I know people get them while fishing for toothies form time to time. Maybe I will run into one someday.
Well, here are some rare-ish species we have caught in this section of river over the years:
Tiger trout (1)
Sauger (4)
Saugeye (1)
Tiger musky (5)
Paddlefish (1, while musky fishing)
Atlantic Salmon (1)
Lake Trout (2)
Bowfin (1)
Mud Puppy (1,while musky fishing)
Gar (1, and haven’t seen one for several years)
Turtle (1, in the mouth with 1 hook while slow trolling for muskies)
1 and maybe 2 endangered species of Darters (while catching walleye bait)
1 big freshwater drum (while trout fishing)
This is all I can remember at the moment.
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Awesome! Lake trout and salmon? haha Thats wild. I wonder how they got there. I'm surprised that people don't run into more sauger. Populations are supposedly really strong in the lower river.
The US hatchery located at the dam will sometimes throw leftover fish into the river. The year we hit those 2 lakers, they reportedly released about 50 of them. The last laker we caught was about 8 miles downriver. The salmon I caught 1995 was only 200 yards downriver from the hatchery.
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