Bonefish
A thin, crooked, and lean river fish that prowls slow waters and reedbeds with relentless, opportunistic hunger. Ugly to look at and worse to taste, the Bonefish is nonetheless abundant enough that the desperate fill their nets with it when leaner, better species are unavailable. It will strip a carcass clean in hours and take a toe or tail from any unwary wader who lingers too long.
Key traits
- Thin, crooked, and lean in build, the Bonefish is visually unappealing and equally unappealing as food.
- A scavenging opportunistic carnivore that picks at whatever death leaves behind in slow-moving waters and reedbeds.
- Will strip a carcass in hours, and is not above taking bites from living waders who pause in its territory.
- Abundant enough in slow waters that it is fished as a subsistence food during hard times, despite being neither prized nor palatable.