Bluegills: Biology and Behavior

Introduction

doi: https://doi.org/10.47886/9781888569933.fmatter

I was fishing one summer day at Lake Istokpoga in central Florida with the marine artist Keith L. Reynolds, whose pen and ink drawing graces the dedication page. In Keith’s perceptual world of light and shadow a fly rod becomes an extended brush, a metaphorical tool for painting distant patches of water using a small hairy creature of his own creation. At that moment my own world seemed pale and dull in comparison, a sweaty arena limited to distilling nature’s complexities. Art seemed far more exciting than science.