Can anyone Identify this Fish?

[ThayerCabin]

It's a Bowfin. I've been researching a lot about them, I've been dying for a chance to find and catch one here in MA. There's been a couple of reports, but I believe there may be a some in a small pond that I frequent. It used to be feed by a streem years ago. I've heard it used to have carp and american eels. Now it's primarily all bass and sunnies. Any new species is exiting for me, and a bowfin is an ancient preditor, one that I want to meet.
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