A record bowfin was caught on a NJ creek on a warm day last month. Bowfin are living fossils as they're last survivor of a primitive family of fish.

A New Jersey state record bowfin was landed last month on the Mantua Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River. The fisherman was Frank Hubert Jr, who resides in Wilmington, Delaware.

Hubert’s fish tops the previous New Jersey record bowfin caught in 2017. That fish weighed 11-pounds, 8.5 ounces, and it was also caught from Mantua Creek. After all the weighing and measuring, Hubert ...

In New Jersey and Pennsylvania specifically, it was illegal to shoot bowfins with arrows. They were afforded this protection prior to the snakehead influx because they were a native species. In the ...

A record bowfin was caught on a NJ creek on a warm day last month. Bowfin are living fossils as they're last survivor of a primitive family of fish.