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The extraordinary bowfin

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Monday, July 14, 2008

"Cast to those bushes," I said to Larry Stark one hot afternoon on an Arkansas oxbow lake. He did as I suggested and crawled his lure over the muddy bottom. It traveled maybe three feet before it happened — something picked up the plastic worm and started off with it. No thump-thump as when a bass hits; something just picked up Larry's worm matter-of-factly and swam away with it. The worm obviously belonged to that something the minute it picked it up. "Reel up the slack, Larry... fast!" ...

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