by Matt Pedersen AZ | May 28, 2021 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
A beautiful spring day and growing COVID vaccination rates combine for the perfect opportunity to gather outdoors with fellow aquarists to do a little fishing. We started our day at Square Lake in Washington County, a 30-minute drive northeast of St. Paul, MN, and...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Sep 22, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
This photospread starts with the story of inadvertently ordering the wrong fish, and ends with what I hope are helpful insights into one of my favorite photography techniques. The Rainbow Shiner, Notropis chrosomus, had been on my watchlist as a possible candidate for...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Apr 14, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Spring is upon us, and it’s that time again when some aquarists among us start thinking about the fishes that swim in our local rivers, streams, ponds and lakes. With good reason too, because our North American native fishes can, at times, rival the most...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 6, 2014 | Freshwater
Native fish keepers and enthusiasts are getting big treats as spring swings into high gear (although you wouldn’t know it with snow still on the ground in Duluth, MN where Senior Editor Matt Pedersen resides). Video shared last week by the Tennessee Aquarium...