It's surely not clear whether "all-scalers" were part of the original stocking, Skeff - ?Skeff wrote:The Redmire stocking was described as having a handful of all scalers (or similar) - so looking at dates and sizes I believe Clarissa would have been stocked as a fingerling. Similar for the Bishop.
I'm not sure you can state with certainty that even the Buckley fish, Cheshunt fish or Croxby fish were UK born? If you take a lifespan of up to 70+ being possible, what was the stocking date for these waters? I've got this noted somewhere because I'm a bit sad like that! I'm going to have to look.....
"The famous Ravioli was one of these all-scaled fish, bred from typical mirror or leather fish which I handled in 1934.."
Don Leney in 1954.
I'm a sad man too, Skeff,
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Apparently, the Mapperley fish might have been German fish, stocked in 1911...but other accounts say they came from Burton-on-Trent...
We're on safer ground with Cheshunt, perhaps - William Senior was fishing it for carp in 1874, which is well before Thomas Ford and the arrival of the first "kings".
Croxby - rumoured to monkish carp. It would have been a small pond then..
Clifford has found mention of its carp going back to 1848, so that perhaps points to them being English fish?
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