Recipe: Tripletail Crudo
The preparation of tripletail makes for a light and refreshing meal.
Tripletail will readily hit live baits, lures or flies, put up a dogged fight, and often unexpectedly take to the air.
The preparation of tripletail makes for a light and refreshing meal.
Tripletail are ready takers for a variety of lures. show them what they want!
Secrets to sight-fish this unusual species on fly.
Best techniques and lures to catch tripletail.
Atlantic tripletail are surely among top contenders on any angler’s list of weird fish. With a mottled brown, compressed body they have a habit of lying on their sides on the surface, looking like a big floating leaf, their noses tight to a trap float, piling or weedline.
Pelagic by nature, they are common seasonally in tropical and semitropical waters, in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Sight-fishing for them is the most common strategy, and they’ll readily hit live baits, lures or flies, put up a dogged fight, and often unexpectedly take to the air.
Light tackle or medium casting tackle is perfectly matched to most tripletail, which average 10 to 12 pounds; though big ones, up to 30 or 40 pounds, may demand 30-pound line to prevent them tangling in structure and breaking off. Their firm, white flesh is tops on the table and suitable for many recipes.
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