Whops, I almost caused a local panic by stocking the bowfins. Last night I when to the pond, I was accosted by the man who cuts hay in a field near the pond. He walked around it to see if he could see one of the musky. Instead he saw one of the bowfins hanging out under the dock. He assumed it was a Snakehead and was irate that I would stock them in a pond. Had I been away this week I might have come home to a drained pond and some angry DNR guys.

Snake Heads have been found in Lower Potomac River an in two ponds in Maryland in the last few years, so people are panicking at the sight of any strange fish. I had to show him pictures of what a Bowfin looked like before he believed me.