Before the recent creation of this web site, if you happened to stumble across my name on the web, most likely it was the mistaken credit for a photo of a bighead carp.

http://www.ipaw.org/news/strange%20invaders.htm
 
(I worked on that research project, and took numerous photos, but that particular photo was taken by someone on the crew a year before I arrived.)  I immediately let the photo source know of the mistake but it was too late--- I was “famous” for a photo that I didn’t take, of a fish I didn’t catch… and that fish was a bighead carp.  Great.

A few years ago, I began assembling scribblings on the backs of receipts... 

There are “people who fish”… and there are “fishermen”.  One of the few things I know about myself is that I am a “fisherman”.  To the point it could be classified as borderline illness.  Sharing this obsession is rewarding, therapeutic. I like to encourage people to “stop and smell the crappie”, if you will (another article).  I still enjoy catching fish, but more and more I get a greater thrill out of helping someone else hook up.

Born in Florida, but raised on the banks of Oklahoma farm ponds, I have worked (and fished) in Hawaii (plant research project), North Dakota (duck research project), Colorado (Leadville National Fish Hatchery), Iowa (Rathbun Research Fish Hatchery and ISU fisheries research projects), and Michigan (MSU fisheries research projects).  I’ve visited Australia 3 times and have seen New Zealand, Alaska, and parts of Europe.

Oh yeah, and I met my wife electrofishing.  (Another story.)

Stay tuned.  I’ll see what else I can get out there.

Thanks,

Andy

http://www.markzona.com/