Nico's Nature

06/19/2025

Throwback Thursday:
Catching invasive Lepomis gibbosus - Pumpkinseed Sunfish back in Germany.

06/16/2025

06/12/2025

Throwback Thursday:
Nico catching his first ever tench at his grandpa's pond.

06/11/2025

Pond shrimp just hit different!

06/09/2025

The amount of comments I see calling alligator gar an invasive species is alarming. They are native to the U.S. and have been for over 100 million years! Protect your native species!

06/09/2025

Plecos eat literally everything

06/07/2025

It's SAS Auction Day. Hope to see you all at Mountain Mike's!

06/06/2025

Contrary to their name, and not at all what you'd think. The bristles on your bristlenose pleco are actually the only soft part other than its belly.

06/05/2025

Throwback Thursday:
Old picture of Nico making Stockbrot (stick bread). Same idea as smores, but it's just bread... very German!

06/02/2025

They do be doing that...

05/31/2025

I was looking through some old photos from my fishing club in Germany—the first club I ever joined by choice. At the time, I was the youngest in my state to pass the fisheries exam, and joining the club was my first step in to volunteer work.
Fishing in Germany is very different from the U.S. You not only do you need to complete a 40-hour course just to get a license, but there's also a much bigger focus on being a steward of the water. Correctly identifying fish, casting technique, and even properly dispatching fish are considered essential knowledge. The trophies I’m holding weren’t for catching big bass, but for things like casting accuracy and passing aquaculture quizzes. And yes, they gave a 16-year-old a bottle of champagne with my prize—definitely not something that would happen in the US either.