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, so I've broken out "me Clifford", because you've got me thinking too...
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?