* All Things Fish *

 Hello, Blog. It's been a while~! To get you up to speed: 1) 2019: I finally broke free. YAY!!! I finalized and published two (count ...

I write this post to hopefully help other illustrators and artists protect their rights and avoid an excruciating, exhausting, stressful, an...

I'm swamped. And it's all good. In short, 2019 was one for the books...! I moved myself and my sons out of our home of 28 years (...

Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love Ocracoke. I started visiting this glorious island 20 years ago with my then very young sons....

People often ask me which are my favorite fishes to illustrate. Hands down: the weirdos and oddballs. Fishes that don't look like your a...

Jessie dressed to the nines for the most casual of family gatherings.  Jessie Grove was born over 103 years ago. On June 22, 2019, Jessi...

Whew! It's been a VERY busy couple of years. No time to post here... but... I'm baaaack! (At least for now) After 6 years of deve...

I noticed an event on FB that will be held in memory of persons to be un-named. It was dubbed "Balloons and Beers." Apparently, th...

Every morning I brace myself for more vitriol, negativity, attacks, destruction, and lies from the alternate reality that this nation's...

I don't eat Salmon. I won't serve Salmon. I've banned Salmon from my home and openly shame my immediate family members for even ...

The Vaquita is a small porpoise endemic to the Gulf of California. It coexists with the Totoaba, a fish targeted for their valuable swim bla...

Cichlids are one of the most successful and diverse family of fishes (eclipsed only by Gobies and Cyprinids) with roughly 112 genera, and at...

I've recycled and experimented with all kinds of left-over food as bait: bread, ham, bacon, shrimp, turkey.... "Whatever that guy o...

This made me laugh so hard, tears ran down my face. Totally relate. I still regularly put my patient and nature-loving sons through a "...

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A friend of mine described this phenomenon on Currituck Sound after a hurricane blew through the Outer Banks of North Carolina. His descript...

Flashback: Ocracoke Island, August 16. A low pressure system had been hanging off the coast for a few days. The ocean was BOILING. It sounde...

From the ground: From SPACE: (They are one in the same.)

There's a thing about Fish Geeks: only Fish Geeks really "get" other Fish Geeks. We are a large and diverse tribe of obsessive...

Mimicry is one of the coolest adaptations in Nature. Stripes in the grass confuse. Stripes in the water warn! Banded sea snake, Mimic octopu...

Smart dude! Boiling The Frog Ep 1: Senator Al Franken Takes On Climate Change from Senator Al Franken

One tiny drop in the Ocean from Wild Sky Productions on Vimeo .

Once again, sharks have made the news , and not for good reasons. While I do not mean to minimize the seriousness of the injuries caused, I ...

Photo credit: Carl Safina On my way back from the Keys a few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between two students. One sat next to...

Mackerels, Tunas & Billfishes of the United States, by Val Kells This just in... Fresh off the presses! Top-notch quality, spot-on ...

It's no secret... I love sharks. They fascinate me~! While I'm not close to being a shark-fishing expert, I've caught my share...

Image by Mike Laptew  © The Earth is flush with many spectacular rituals and phenomena. Think: mass coral spawning, Northern lights, ph...

Original 1898 illustration showing protruding jaws (feeding/gulping position) What is a 'goblin', anyway? According to Mirriam-W...

A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes by Val Kells & Kent Carpenter I work long hours. Sometimes from 6am to 8 or 9pm. As I write this, it...

This should happen across the US. Even the most innocuous bit of plastic will eventually find its way to an ocean. Stop the plastic, stop th...

When I first saw this trailer on FB, I thought I was in for another dose of meat fishing. Not so! To my happy surprise, I was served a he...

The Fish Cave (aka: my office) Life in the Fish Cave has been something of a pressure cooker. I've had little time to think about a...

I've been following this pair of Ospreys as a way to fill my head with happy distractions and to find hope and light in the face of so m...