Wildie ancestry ........... or not?

[Julian]

Caught this ten pound common today from the Mill Pool (full journal report to follow soon).
Would you say this is fairly close to being a wildie or not - just curious to know views of members:

[Hovis]

Well Sir its got the length for it.

At 10lb is fairly big for a wildie. Cracking fish well done

[Julian]

To give the size a bit of context, the three-section hooking mat it is lying on is exactly 12 inches per section. You can see the carp is just over two of those sections in length , so the carp is slightly over two feet in length.

[LuckyLuca]

Wildie or not that's a lovely long lean fish Julian.

[Snape]

I would say it qualified as a feral type common carp which could therefore be called wildie.
It is doing a pretty good impression of the wildie in Fennel's guide here http://www.fennelspriory.com/downloads/ ... cation.pdf

[Loop Erimder]

Lovely fish anyway

[MaggotDrowner]

Lovely fish anyway

I think so to. Too much time is spent worrying about the pedigree of fish. Mostly with roach and roach hybrids but also carps. A nice fish is a nice fish as far as I'm concerned. And that is a nice fish, Julian. Well done on your catch. I'm envious.

[The Sweetcorn Kid]

Superb.....well done.

[MGs]

Lovely. Whatever its parentage.

[Gary Bills]

Deeply forked tail, longish tail root, lean body..it seems to tick the boxes, Julian.