Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: Bushman452 on February 15, 2011, 02:14:01 pm
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Here in the state of Virginia we are being plagued by snakeheads which gives me more than good reason to try some summertime bowfishing. Has any of ya'll ever shot one these things before.
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I never have. Ain't they the ones that can come up on land and bite?
CP
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Very interesting fish. I think if you could surprise them when they are on land, they would be much easier to shoot. Nice looking skins too!!
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...and they eat good from what I understand. ;D
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Just happened to watch a show on netflix the other night. talked to mullet about it. it was about the bullseye snakeheads invading. one of the 'myths' the experts spoke on (wildlife experts in Florida) was the attacking on land. While the snakehead can 'breath' on land and move across ground, it is not an attack type of movement, just a typical fish movement across and they wear out fast.
They ARE very aggressive and will eat just about anything. The show also talked about them being good eating and said that is what has caused the issue that Florida is having. some bonehead brought them in and released them so that they could be harvested later for market.
The show is a segment of 'River Monsters'.
Bevan
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I don't know if they are commonly big enough or numerous enough to bowfish. They do come up for air, but I don't think they do it often. A few 2 foot long ones have been caught, but most are smaller.... FOR NOW... bum bum BAAAAAAAAA! ;D
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According to the show I watched, they are numerous enough.
Bevan
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What the heck??? That is a weird looking fish, I though you guys were pulling a snipe hunt on me for a sec till I looked it up. It was on the internet so it must be real ;D
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I asked mullet if he had run into any and he said not. I think they would make a really neat skin for some bows!
Bevan
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Shoot them all. we need to get rid of them.
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They have found a couple in NC the last few years, hope they don't get started up here.
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I've never seen one before, but it looks like what we call a Mudfish, or it's proper name, Bowfin. We also have Walking Catfish down here. They taste like crap.
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Wonder if they're in the Everglades? I'd like to shoot some!
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According to the show 'River Monsters' I watched, they are not in the glades YET. Just almost there.
Bevan
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Well Eddie took the words right out of my mouth! It sure does look like our Mud fish (Bowfin) down here. ;) Supposedly they are from somewhere in Asia, and tasty. Never seen one, but it is an interesting pattern on them though. Yeah, we have a lot of inbreds that think it would be cool to have these in the wild. Like pythons, cobras, monitor lizards, parrots, etc. It is bad enough to have to look out for the afore mentioned critters, but now you have to be careful of what you reel in. :o We already have our canals, and lakes full of talapia, and Nile perch, and those weird looking aquarium cleaning sucker type fish. They get pretty big. Look like some kind of Darth Vader fish. :o
Wayne
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Snake heads dont come out of the water or breath air. They are a very normal fish. I had them as pets wen I was a kid. Filter broke. They died. No walking or air breathing. I have heard they are good to eat.
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Here, in Thailand. They tastes very good. ;D
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Oat, if I hadn't just finished eating a little while ago, I would be very hungry right now! That looks delicious. How are things over there now?
Wayne
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Well....Looks like Bow Backing to me...... ;D
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wow, oat, that does look good!
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I caught a fish last summer out of a large creek below Lake Murray here in the midlands of SC. Thought it was a snakehead but one of our DNR biologist said bowfin. If it has a spot on the tail it is a bowfin or mudfish. And it tastes godawful.
Lane
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The head on a Snakehead is longer also, as opposed to the more round type of Mudfish head.
Wayne
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Lane, if you are gonna eat a mudfish you have to skin and fillet it and put the meat on ice as soon as you catch it. Then it is white and flakey meat, if not it will get mushy. It is good fried or in fish cakes.
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Bowfins are very cool - and protected in some areas due to their rarity. Glad you mentioned the differences between the two. That said, I HATE them ;D or at least their heads...
Back in the day, I had to take a vertebrate anatomy class and memorize every bone in a bowfin's skull and how they compared with every other vertebrate.
Fun Fun Fun.....
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One old man told me a long time ago how to cook Mudfish. He said you need to get a cedar plank, or shake, and clean it well, soak it in water, and fillet the Mudfish, and season both sides, and put olive oil on the board, and put some Cajun season, and garlic on it. Then lay the seasoned fillet on the board, and wrap it with wet cotton string, to the board. You need a good bed of coals, going, and then take the plank with the Mudfish filet's on it, and place it at an angle to the hot coals. When the fish turns nice and golden, cut the string, and dump the fish in the fire, and eat the plank. ;D ;)
Wayne
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A good big mudfish, is excellent to eat. You have to fillet them and trim off everything that is'nt white boneless meat.No skin,no red side meat,no membrane and you have a very white ,tasty fish. My dad and I caught some nice ones out of the oxbows and creeks in the Big Pee Dee river swamp. Yummy ! ' Frank
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Sparrow, you moved quite aways from home didn't you? :o Big Pee Dee. Some good fishing in there. Never got to fish there, but been by it, and and the Little Pee Dee river. Read about the fishing, and always wanted to go there sometime. How's the fishing in Washington? You do any Salmon fishing there? When I finally get to Montana, I will be going over to Salmon Idaho, to fish for them . My Buddy and his family go and they get some huge ones.
Wayne