Check out this site if your interested in Bowfin.

http://www.bowfinanglers.com

Lots of info on them and even several recipes. There is a local lake around here loaded with these guys. When it was to hot to catch much else, we would head over there and fish the spillways for them. Incredible fight. Caught more 5-10lbs than I can count as a kid. Had no idea you could eat them.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. Mark Twain