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Golden Redhorse: Fantastic Native Sucker
Season 6 Episode 15
Get to know the Golden Redhorse! They fight hard, they're beautiful, and they're a great fish to introduce kids to fishing (soft mouth, no spines). D…
2 months, 1 week ago
Emerald Bowfin: Honey Badger of Fish!
Season 6 Episode 14
Get to know the Emerald Bowfin, one of two native species of bowfin found in North America! Always hungry and angry, this gamest of fish is a dedicat…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
American Star Drum: Estuarine Candy!
Season 6 Episode 13
Get to know the American Star Drum: an abundant, silvery little bulldog-faced fish that feeds everything from popular sportfish to beloved birds and …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Southern Appalachian Brook Trout!
Season 6 Episode 12
Travel to North Carolina with Katrina, Guy, and guest Tyler Pait to get to know the beautiful Brook Trout of the Southern Appalachians! You'll learn …
3 months ago
Abyssal Rattail & Rough Abyssal Grenadier!
Season 6 Episode 11
Head with us to the abyssal sea floor, a fascinating and important place with rolling hills, rock outcrops, and amazing creatures drifting by and sti…
3 months, 1 week ago
Alabama's Watercress Darter!
Season 6 Episode 10
Head to Birmingham, Alabama with us to get to know this fish and several other endangered urban darters. We explore the city and the well-known sprin…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Blackbanded Sunfish of East Coast Blackwaters
Season 6 Episode 9
Get to know a beautiful and rare native species found in pockets of tea-like blackwater habitats along the East Coast. Katrina and Guy are joined by …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Pumpkinseed: Find Your Happy Place
Season 6 Episode 8
Get to know the Pumpkinseed, "perfect in all its parts, looking like a brilliant coin, fresh from the mint." Learn what makes this fish tick, where t…
4 months ago
All The Fish Names: Etymology Deep Dive!
Season 6 Episode 7
In contrast to the clinical, objective science of descriptive taxonomy, naming a fish is the one time scientists can be creative, personal, poetic, w…
4 months, 1 week ago
Rockhead Poacher: Livin' Loud
Season 6 Episode 6
What looks like a rock, vocalizes using its own bizarre internal instrument, and vibrates like a cell phone when picked up? Get to know the Rockhead …
4 months, 2 weeks ago