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Shooting snakeheads with a bow.
johnston:
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
stickbender:
The head on a Snakehead is longer also, as opposed to the more round type of Mudfish head.
Wayne
mullet:
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.
Postman:
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.....
stickbender:
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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