Walleye Print
Walleye Print
Size
12 × 12 in overall, unframed. The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, so it fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size, with or without a mat.
Printed on 189 g/m² (10.3 mil) enhanced matte paper.
Want it ready to hang? The same plate comes framed in Black or Red Oak.
Denton's pike-perch, the glassy eye that gives the fish its name.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; a frame with glass or acrylic keeps it clean.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, and ships on its own (separate from any shirts or framed prints in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 008
From the book
- Species
- Sander vitreus
- As named in the book
- The Pike Perch or Wall-eyed Pike; Stizostedion vitreum.
- Artist
- S. F. Denton
- Book
- Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, 1897
Then and now
Moved from the genus Stizostedion to Sander in 2003.
Field notes
That glassy eye is a mirror that lets it hunt in the dark.
Look at the eye in Denton's plate: that milky, pearl-like shine gave the fish its name. It's a working part. Behind the retina, walleye have a reflective layer, the tapetum lucidum, the same thing that makes a cat's eyes glow in headlights. It bounces light back through the eye so the fish can see in dim or stained water.
That shapes how it lives. Walleye feed hardest at dawn and dusk, often on yellow perch, which can't see as well in low light. When the sun is high they slip into deeper water or the shade of boulders and logs.
New York's 1896 report called it the "Pike Perch or Wall-eyed Pike." It isn't a pike at all: it's the largest member of the perch family in North America.