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What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:40 pm
by Bobthefloat
I caught a fair few of these this morning and I dont remember the Roach looking like this 10 years ago from the same river.
What are your thoughts chaps?
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:56 pm
by Wanderer
Which river is it from ?
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:05 pm
by Bobthefloat
Wanderer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:56 pm
Which river is it from ?
Wandle
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:46 pm
by Wanderer
It's unusual.
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:57 pm
by Duckett
Roach-Rudd hybrid? Mind you, I ought to come clean and add that, despite listening to every DaceAce film on the subject, I still find them more varied and more difficult to identify then anything else, so they tend to be my default setting for fish I’m not sure about!
Phil
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:58 pm
by Old Man River
I thnk it is …..very elegant, but not a clue as to how it ended up like that , must be a hybrid of sorts, but what sort ?
Not up to counting scales etc ….
David
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:01 pm
by Bobthefloat
All the biggest ones today had tails just like that.
The big Roach I used to catch there over ten years ago were all old warriors and looked as you'd expect
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:24 pm
by Dave Burr
That tail is just like an African tiger fish's, ergo it's a tigerroach.
Did it have big teeth?
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:56 pm
by Olly
On a couple the back fin appears slightly farther back in the photo - with one or two a straight line from pelvic to back fin. Just an illusion?
Re: What do you think of the tail on this
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:27 pm
by Carp Artist
A nice fish, whatever its parentage might be.
