Tripletail

The fish hiding in plain sight.

The tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis) is one of the coast’s most peculiar and rewarding targets — a deep-bodied, slow-drifting fish that lounges at the surface near buoys, crab pot floats, and debris lines, looking more like a floating leaf than one of the hardest-fighting fish in nearshore waters. Anglers who learn to spot them never forget the sight of that broad, dark profile tilting lazily in the current.

This original graphite sketch captures the tripletail’s unmistakable silhouette — the rounded, overlapping rear fins that give the species its name, the deep compressed body, and the rugged texture of its scales — rendered with the clean precision that defines the Silhouette Series.

Print Details

• Size: 11" × 14"
• Medium: Museum-quality fine art reproduction of an original graphite sketch
• Paper: Premium archival fine art paper
• Inks: Archival pigment inks — fade-resistant for decades of display
• Options: Framed (professionally framed, ready to hang) or Unframed (ideal for custom framing)

For the angler who’s idled past a crab pot float and spotted something that shouldn’t be there — and made the cast anyway.