They are native and widespread all across the eastern half of the county and in southeastern Canada, from Quebec west to Minnesota and from the Carolinas west to Texas. That alone, at least in my opinion, should be enough for bowfin to earn some respect, yet for the most part they are considered a trash fish.
They were here, along with species like the gars, long before every other gamefish we target today existed. They have remained relatively unchanged since the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago.
The problem is they look very similar to snakeheads and, thanks to that media blitz in the early 2000s, many people still kill snakeheads, even though most states have relaxed the edict that none shall be returned to the water alive.īowfins are living dinosaurs. Though largely overlooked as a rod-and-reel target, the uptick in snakehead interest has meant more bowfins getting caught. While neither species has quite decimated the scene as once predicted, they have created some potentially harmful confusion because they thrive in waters that hold native bowfins. There are two species of snakeheads living in the U.S.-the northern snakehead, which ranges from Virginia through Southern New York, and the bullseye snakehead, which lives in South Florida.
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