Pilotfish

Usually a foot or so; grows to 2 feet.

Pilot

Offshore waters. Name comes from accompanying sharks and other large animals seemingly as pilots. Oceanic species with a semi-obligate commensal relationship with sharks, rays, other bony fishes and turtles. Young are usually associated with jellyfish and drifting seaweed. Feed on scraps of host's left over, parasites and excrement; also on small fishes and invertebrates. Eggs are pelagic. Marketed fresh and salted or dried. Captured at the surface using hand nets

Slender shape with tapering head. Body marked by wide, dark bands. Fins also banded. Dorsal spines (total): 5 - 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 25-29; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 15 - 17. Body elongate, slender, and not strongly compressed; posterior end of upper jaw located at anterior rim of eye; dorsal fin with 4 or 5 spines followed by another spine and 25 to 29 soft rays (IV-V+I 25-29); lateral line without scutes; caudal peduncle with well developed fleshy keels and with dorsal and ventral peduncular fossae. Body dark to pale bluish, with 6-7 broad, dark bars; white tips on caudal lobes and on second dorsal and anal lobes

Summary of Distribution: Circumtropical in tropical seas. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Argentina. Eastern Atlantic: British Isles (rare vagrant) and Bay of Biscay to Angola, including the Mediterranean and Canary Islands. Eastern Pacific: Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada) to the Galapagos Islands. Common throughout the Indian Ocean
Note: Distribution range colors indicate degree of suitability of habitat which can be interpreted as probabilities of occurrence (fishbase.org)

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Readily takes small jigs and streamer flies. Only very light outfits provide much sport.