• Bio
    • Media Appearances
  • Kayak Fishing
    • Hank’s Kayak Fishing History
    • Kayak Fishing Posts
    • Kayak Fishing for Bowfin
    • Field Reports
  • Bowfin
    • Bowfin Fishing
    • Bowfin Resources
  • Writings
    • Fishing Essays
    • Fishing Book Reviews
    • Product Reviews
    • Welcome to Bowfin Country: The Book
  • Sponsors

Welcome to Bowfin Country

Welcome to Bowfin Country

Tag Archives: caviar

Proteus and the Bowfin

15 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by Henry Veggian in Bowfin

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Bowfin, caviar, Environment, fish biology, Fishes, Fishing, living fossils, rough fish

January 2015

It was eight years ago this week, on a warm January day, that I landed the Bowfin in the photo below. I was recently arrived to the North Carolina Piedmont, and if you look closely, you will see that I’m wearing a hat from Lock 3 Bait & Tackle. It’s my favorite tackle shop on the lower Allegheny River, just down the road from where Rachel Carson was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, and a little reminder of how anglers cling to the superstitions of their old haunts. That hat didn’t last much longer after I landed that Bowfin. It wasn’t because I gave up on the Allegheny – I still fish it about once every year – but because this fish marks a break in my life: there is before the Bowfin Era, and after. Continue reading →

Follow Hank on Youtube

https://youtu.be/4wrGRk5mnNs

Receive new post notice by email.

Join 1,447 other followers

RSS Welcome to Bowfin Country

  • Late Winter Bass Fishing
    “Nature has its own clock. Humans have their clocks. I live and fish somewhere between the two.”Continue reading →
  • Jackson Bite FD: Product Review
    Accessibility, Comfort and Stability: The Jackson Kayak Bite FD is one of the best all-around fishing kayaks on today's market.Continue reading →
  • Back-Tracking, Double-Guessing & Sloth: Notes from a CKA Event on the Cape Fear River
    Saturday, July 25th, 2020. The forecast says baste your hide and prepare to be cooked. When I arrived at the …Continue reading →
  • Review of the FlipIt ID Tag Holder
    The continual innovation in kayak fishing gear is amazing. Here is another in a recent line of product reviews. This …Continue reading →
  • Product Review: The Redline TailSpin
    My review of this clever reinvention of a classic lure design is now up on the KBF Blog. Disclaimer: I …Continue reading →

Twitter Feed

My Tweets

Flickr Photos

outdoor life april 2017HV Shearon harris Channel Catfish 6 (5)U lake 7.25 21.75 July 2020 (6)IMG_0175
More Photos

Relevant Web Sites

  • Hank's youtube Channel

Blog Stats

  • 7,708 hits

Archives

Blog at WordPress.com.