Talk:Bowfin
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Nocturnal Feeders? Whoever wrote this article doesn't know a thing about bowfin behavior, or has not observed them extensively in the wild. Bowfin are more apt to feed in the middle of the day as in the dead of night. Using the term "nocturnal" implies that the fish is exclusively a night feeder, and remains torpid or under cover during daylight hours. This is obviously false. While bowfin may occasionally feed at night, they hunt and feed throughout the daylight hours. An argument could be made that they are crepuscular, but even this is a stretch. Bowfin are sight feeders, attacking their living prey from ambush points.
- Do you have a source to cite for all this? The ones in the external links don't seem to mention day or night, which suggests that the "nocturnal" should be deleted, but we need a citeable reference to add anything else. Stan 14:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I remember growing up and fishing the lakes of central Florida, Mud Lake in Polk City, Florida in particular, catching Bowfin (Mudfish is what we called them). We caught them typically from 2 hours after sunrise until the midafternoon. They would hit lures intended for largemouth bass in the areas typically inhabited by largemouth bass. We also caught a number of largemouth bass with bite scars from Bowfin (Mudfish). Many times we would find dead bass on the surface as well that had similar scars. This was about 1982-1985. These were not alligator bite scars either, the rows of teeth marks were two narrow, and alligators were still endangered at that time.Fyrdawg589 12:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
