bowfin Archives - Mississippi Sportsman

July 15, 2025

The author untangled this big choupique under the water at a running cut into the Mississippi River.

Mississippi mother lode

July 17, 2019 Joshua Chauvin

Joshua Chauvin explains how he sets limb lines in the big waters of the Mississippi River and its oxbows to catch really big choupique and catfish. […]

Bowfin aren’t present in huge populations, but they can grow to hefty sizes — and are legendary fighters.

Bowfin: An ancient fish with an attitude

September 4, 2014 Hal Schramm

Grinnel, mudfish, dogfish, beaverfish, blackfish, cottonfish, cypress trout, lawyer, choupique, scaled ling, marshfish, speckled cat — just some of the local names for a fish whose official common name is bowfin. […]