Olaf Nelson
@moxostoma.bsky.social
Fish obsessed printmaker, book designer, editor. Pepper gardener and fermenter. Hopefully a pretty cool dad. Maker of noises and noisemakers.
New woodcut print! Attn: woodworkers. Inspired by an old matchbox and farmers, carpenters, mechanics, etc. I’ve met with missing digits. (Czech = “use safety equipment to prevent injuries.”) Edition of 40. 20” x 20”. $100 unframed. Etsy or message me. #printmaking #woodworking #sawstop #powertools
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
New woodcut print! Attn: woodworkers. Inspired by an old matchbox and farmers, carpenters, mechanics, etc. I’ve met with missing digits. (Czech = “use safety equipment to prevent injuries.”) Edition of 40. 20” x 20”. $100 unframed. Etsy or message me. #printmaking #woodworking #sawstop #powertools
Join NANFA (North American Native Fishes Assoc.) NOW
nanfa.org/join.shtml & get next American Currents. $30/year=4 x AC, help fund grants, annual convention, regional meetups, tons of native fish expertise, etc. Cover illustration: Sicklefin Redhorse Moxostoma ugidatli by Joshua Knuth #fish #fishart
nanfa.org/join.shtml & get next American Currents. $30/year=4 x AC, help fund grants, annual convention, regional meetups, tons of native fish expertise, etc. Cover illustration: Sicklefin Redhorse Moxostoma ugidatli by Joshua Knuth #fish #fishart
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Join NANFA (North American Native Fishes Assoc.) NOW
nanfa.org/join.shtml & get next American Currents. $30/year=4 x AC, help fund grants, annual convention, regional meetups, tons of native fish expertise, etc. Cover illustration: Sicklefin Redhorse Moxostoma ugidatli by Joshua Knuth #fish #fishart
nanfa.org/join.shtml & get next American Currents. $30/year=4 x AC, help fund grants, annual convention, regional meetups, tons of native fish expertise, etc. Cover illustration: Sicklefin Redhorse Moxostoma ugidatli by Joshua Knuth #fish #fishart
Redhorse ID can be confusing, even for professionals, so I made these cheatsheets (in 2011!). They have since been used by state agencies, labs, and many anglers. PDF downloads aren't working on my site, so here they are as images. Share wherever it might be useful. #redhorse #nativefish #fishing
March 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Redhorse ID can be confusing, even for professionals, so I made these cheatsheets (in 2011!). They have since been used by state agencies, labs, and many anglers. PDF downloads aren't working on my site, so here they are as images. Share wherever it might be useful. #redhorse #nativefish #fishing
A few gar/cicada prints (4 or 5) left. If you're in IL/WI/MN/IA, in person delivery may be possible. $10 off for that, so $70. Here are a couple shots I've received from people who already got theirs framed. If you want one, message me. Don't use etsy if you want the discount. #gar #fishart #cicada
February 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
But they still get treated like carp. I watched a couple guys shooting spawning quillbacks with arrows. I asked what they were doing and they said "Killing carp!" They didn't like the info I then provided. When I came back later, there was a pile on shore. #25daysoffishmas
December 21, 2024 at 9:55 PM
But they still get treated like carp. I watched a couple guys shooting spawning quillbacks with arrows. I asked what they were doing and they said "Killing carp!" They didn't like the info I then provided. When I came back later, there was a pile on shore. #25daysoffishmas
There's a reason photographers are always telling their subjects to "smile like a Bowfin!" and love poets can't stop writing "She had a smile like a bowfin." The happiest fish on earth for millions of years. #25daysoffishmas #bowfin #amia
December 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
There's a reason photographers are always telling their subjects to "smile like a Bowfin!" and love poets can't stop writing "She had a smile like a bowfin." The happiest fish on earth for millions of years. #25daysoffishmas #bowfin #amia
Finally, we have the playful side of airborne gars: just a friendly game of leapfrog with a turtle. And you can have it in your own fish tank! From a magazine for kids, 1892. #garweek
December 20, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Finally, we have the playful side of airborne gars: just a friendly game of leapfrog with a turtle. And you can have it in your own fish tank! From a magazine for kids, 1892. #garweek
It's raining gars? Now that's my kind of biblical plague! (This 1894 drawing is actually those other "garfish" I wish weren't called that as it skews search results: family Belonidae, aka needlefish.) But that's not the only gar rain I've read about. Let me see if I can find the others... #garweek
December 20, 2024 at 2:51 AM
It's raining gars? Now that's my kind of biblical plague! (This 1894 drawing is actually those other "garfish" I wish weren't called that as it skews search results: family Belonidae, aka needlefish.) But that's not the only gar rain I've read about. Let me see if I can find the others... #garweek
Someone sent me this screenshot because they know I'm a big fan of #eels. Hope I get a chance to use this info some day. I ssume you already know this, Surprised Eel Historian @greenleejw.bsky.social ?
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Someone sent me this screenshot because they know I'm a big fan of #eels. Hope I get a chance to use this info some day. I ssume you already know this, Surprised Eel Historian @greenleejw.bsky.social ?
White Bass swimming under a Lake Sturgeon (Wolf River, WI, May 2022). I also saw them doing the same thing under other large fish, including Bigmouth or Smallmouth Buffalo (don't remember which) and more sturgeons. (Recorded my screen while watching wolfrivercam.) #25DaysofFishmas
#sturgeon
#sturgeon
December 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
White Bass swimming under a Lake Sturgeon (Wolf River, WI, May 2022). I also saw them doing the same thing under other large fish, including Bigmouth or Smallmouth Buffalo (don't remember which) and more sturgeons. (Recorded my screen while watching wolfrivercam.) #25DaysofFishmas
#sturgeon
#sturgeon
More Wolf River lake sturgeons (April 2019, screen capture from wolfrivercam dot com) #25DaysofFishmas #sturgeon
December 19, 2024 at 6:26 PM
More Wolf River lake sturgeons (April 2019, screen capture from wolfrivercam dot com) #25DaysofFishmas #sturgeon
This lake sturgeon (Wolf River, WI, April 2019) has seem some things. #25DaysofFishmas #sturgeon
December 19, 2024 at 6:21 PM
This lake sturgeon (Wolf River, WI, April 2019) has seem some things. #25DaysofFishmas #sturgeon
I missed Wednesday's #garweek puns and jokes day, so I'm going to turn my work in late and hope for partial credit. Starting with the GARMONICA!
December 19, 2024 at 5:35 PM
I missed Wednesday's #garweek puns and jokes day, so I'm going to turn my work in late and hope for partial credit. Starting with the GARMONICA!
My 2nd lake sturgeon (again, Wisconsin River) was a little bigger than the first, and a lot less serrated. Someone said it looked like I was about to rip into a wicked solo, and someone else made it happen. #25DaysofFishmas #sturgeon #acipenser
December 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
My 2nd lake sturgeon (again, Wisconsin River) was a little bigger than the first, and a lot less serrated. Someone said it looked like I was about to rip into a wicked solo, and someone else made it happen. #25DaysofFishmas #sturgeon #acipenser
My firs sturgeon, a young lake sturgeon from the lower Wisconsin River, was basically a randomly firing muscle covered in knives. And beautiful.
December 19, 2024 at 3:02 PM
My firs sturgeon, a young lake sturgeon from the lower Wisconsin River, was basically a randomly firing muscle covered in knives. And beautiful.
Beware: sometimes shortnose gar put on snout spots so you’ll think they’re spotted gar and get excited about catching a species not known to be in the river. (LaSalle County IL, 2022) #garweek #25daysoffishmas
December 18, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Beware: sometimes shortnose gar put on snout spots so you’ll think they’re spotted gar and get excited about catching a species not known to be in the river. (LaSalle County IL, 2022) #garweek #25daysoffishmas
Took multiple trips to the river to get a shortnose gar while wearing my Garr’s Beer shirt, and then this was the best photo I could get. #GarWeek #25daysoffishmas
December 18, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Took multiple trips to the river to get a shortnose gar while wearing my Garr’s Beer shirt, and then this was the best photo I could get. #GarWeek #25daysoffishmas
