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Rainbow Runner.
(Elagatis bipinnulata).

Rainbow Runner (Elagatis bipinnulata).

Other Common Names:
Hawaiian Salmon.
Yellowtail Runner.
Regnbueløber.

Identification:
Upper body sea blue with two light blue lateral lines.
Belly silvery white with one bronze–yellow lateral line.
Bright yellow and forked tail.

Typical Location:
In open ocean around logs, flotsam, weed lines and in warm current.
Around buoy’s and FAD’s (Fish Aggregating Devices).
Around deep water reefs, wrecks and drop off continental shelf.

Fishing Methods:
Trolling live or dead mullet, mackerel or squid.
Trolling smaller lures, minnows and poppers.
Drifting with small live bait, often with chum.
Deep water jigging.

Fighting Characteristics:
Fast but short runs near the surface.

Fishing Khao Lak's Comment:
Not a great fighter, but can sometimes be caught in large numbers.
Also an excellent table fish.


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Black Marlin | Black–blotched Stingray | Blackspot Shark | Blacktip Reef Shark
Blue Marlin | Bluefin Trevally | Bluespotted Stingray | Bonefish | Bridled Parrotfish

Broadbill Swordfish | Bull Shark | Camouflage Grouper | Checkered Seaperch
Cobia | Copper Shark | Coral Trout | Coronation Trout | Daisy Parrotfish
Dogtooth Tuna | Dorado | Dusky Parrotfish | Ember Parrotfish

Giant Trevally | Golden Trevally | Green Jobfish | Grey Mullet | Grey Reef Shark
Hammerhead Shark | Honeycomb Grouper | John's Snapper | Kawa Kawa Tuna
Leopard Shark | Long–Finned Bigeye | Longnose Emperor | Longtail Tuna

Longtom | Mako Shark | Malabar Grouper | Mangrove Jack | Maori Seaperch
Narrow–barred Spanish Mackerel | Peacock Rockcod | Permit | Queenfish
Rainbow Runner | Red Snapper | Reticulated Swellshark | Rosy Snapper

Ruby Snapper | Sailfish | Silvertip Shark | Skipjack Tuna | Smalltooth Emperor
Smalltooth Jobfish | Spangled Emperor | Sweetlip Emperor | Tarpon | Threadfin Salmon
Tiger Shark | Tripletail | Tripletail Wrasse | Wahoo | Yellowfin Tuna


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