Walleye — Naturalist Field Plate | Printable Fish Wall Art for Anglers

Walleye · Sander vitreus

A museum-quality naturalist print of the Walleye, illustrated in the tradition of vintage natural history field guides — with accurate taxonomy, a native range map, and true-to-life detail. Researched from trusted sources and composed with care.

Every Ashborn plate is built the way a naturalist would have wanted it: the correct order, family, genus and species; a faithful range map; and the details that reward a closer look — the reflective eye, the spined first dorsal fin, the white-tipped tail, and the rocky shoals where it spawns in spring.

The name is the fish. Behind the retina sits a reflective layer — a tapetum lucidum — that bounces incoming light back through the eye a second time, giving the walleye its glassy, gathering stare. It is the same structure that makes a cat's eyes shine in headlights, and it means this fish sees in water where its prey sees nothing. That is why it feeds at dusk, at dawn, and in the stained water after rain.

What you receive
· High-resolution PDF (print-ready, CMYK)
· High-resolution JPEG
· Ashborn Printing Guide (PDF)
· 3:4 ratio — prints beautifully from 6×8 in to gallery size

Perfect for the angler, the lake-country fisherman, or the nature lover — a natural fit for a study, a lodge, or a cabin wall, and designed to hang alongside the other plates in the Ashborn collection.

This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Frames and room images shown are for presentation purposes only.