# @outdoor_life on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DEqb2VCMkqo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25998662-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-01-10T23:12:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

The big New Jersey bowfin was pulled from the same small tidal creek as the previous state record, caught in 2017.

Frank Hubert Jr. had been watching the New Jersey weather carefully in mid-December. It had been unseasonably warm for several days, with temperatures rising into the mid-50s. Hubert says the water temperature in Mantua Creek had jumped from somewhere in the 40s to 52 degrees in just a few days, so it was time to wet a line. Hubert’s strategy that day was to focus on shallow areas with dark, muddy bottoms that were out of the main tidal flow. His small kayak was ideal for probing the flats as well as the deeper parts of the creek that were closer to 6-feet in depth. Around 2 p.m., he made a cast with a shallow-running lure called a “Dragon Destroyer” that was invented and made by his nephew, Jesse James. Moments later, this giant bowfin exploded on it and proceeded to put up a heck of a fight.

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#fishing #fishingseason #fishingtrip #bowfin #newjersey #bowfinfishing #outdoors #nature #outdoorlife
🎥: Frank Hubert Jr.
Story by: Bob McNally

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