bowfin Archives - Mississippi Sportsman

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

Mississippi mother lode

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: An ancient fish with an attitude

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. […]