Inot found out have caught them on a fly rod using a red worm and a red bead. I have watched some other fishermen using just flies successfully. I havehh not found out what flies they are using but some of the bowfin they caught were large. Bowfin put up a good fight on a fly rod and very good places to fish for them are almost in my back yard. The trout fishig locally is not very good so I fish for warmwater fish with a fly rod.