A rainbow trout dominates the composition, rendered in naturalistic detail with iridescent pink and lavender streaks running along its silver-green body, its eye wide and alert. The fish is positioned in profile against a clean white ground, showing every scale and fin with the precision of a natural history illustration, capturing both the delicate coloring and powerful form of the species. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.