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.

caught the New Jersey state record bowfin, he figured he’d have to kill the beloved, air-breathing fish to prove it, so he took a nice picture and released his catch back into the swamps.

I got a report of an angler fishing the middle St. Marys catching a good mess of crappie from the deep holes. There were also ...

He found the bowfin lurking in shallow ... creek by a then-8-year old Pierce Dopkin from Clementon. Hubert' said the catch was certified by a biologist with the NJ Fish & Wildlife, which runs ...