Off Topic: Fish Sighting

[SneakyPhil]

So yesterday we are fixing to trailer my dads boat in Port Isabel after a morning on the flats. I'm standing on the dock with my dad waiting our turn and looked down into the water and I see a small fish about 4" long. It looked like it was dead. I pointed it out to my dad and told him that it might be a grouper. It was kinda like a light brown almost orange color. Then I thought that it might be an Oscar that someone mistakingly tried to release in salt water. Anyway it was floating on its side so I decided to grab it by its tail to take a closer look at it. When I grabed it with my fingers it took off and sliped out of my grasp. It was alive! Now that I think about it it may have been a juvenile triple tail. Kind cool. Anyway just tought I'd share.

[Cazador]

Yep, sounds like a Triple Tail to me. Pretty cool.

[bentman]

I would also say triple tail

[texaset]

sounds like a triple tail to me

[Tejas Wildlife]

Triple tails are cool.

[SneakyPhil]

I had offten thought about if we had them in my area of the LLM and some people told me that it was more of an open water fish. I seem to recall watching a show where they caught them in the bay around Corpus. Now seen a small one leads me to believe that they may come into the LLM as well. Guess I need to research.

[Skipshot]

Sure sounds like a tripletail to me. I have always been told that the only bay system they come into is West Matagorda and always wondered why that is. We have been catcing them for years in West Matagorda up to 20+ lbs during the summer months and as much as I have fished other bay systems I have never spotted one anywhere else.

[canny]

I caught one that weighed a little over 10lbs in Rockport many years ago on my first saltwater trip.

[waterdog]

Tripletail are a curious fish. The are like a mixture of other fish looks and habits. They have the general appearance of a large crappie in body shape, yet have the coloration of a google-eye(warmouth) or a rockbass. Their habits appear to be taken from other fish as well. They swim/float on their side just like a flounder. But they are truely a surface fish, lounging around like a gar. And thats exactly what they do, float around under some sort of floating structure such as sargasmo weed or any trash just waiting for some small fish to come along. Not knowing that the tripletail is a fish and not floating debris, once the small fish, shrimp or crab come close enough the tripletail strikes quickly. This behavior is exactly what gar do.

[SneakyPhil]

This is zactly like the one I saw the other day.

[ArcheryAddict]

Triple Tail. Supposed to be awesome eating.

[BCW]

They are excellent eating. Caught a few in West Matty.

[IDAHO_BOWMEN]

We caught three trippletail last weekend. Not much of q fish eater so I gave mine to Chunky. The put up one heck of a fight.

[walker1983]

maybe a juvenile triple tail?

[muley4x4]

That's awesome. Cool looking fish!