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Shannon Tompkins : CHRONICLE

Careful to avoid the fish's spike-studded mouth, an angler hoists a healthy bowfin caught from a bayou feeding a Southeast Texas river.

Tompkins: Bowfins present unique challenge—Southeast Texas sloughs, oxbows, bayous and rivers can fairly vibrate with a primeval energy that either fascinates or intimidates human visitors to swamps. READ STORY

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