What do you think of the tail on this

Bobthefloat · Post by **Bobthefloat** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:40 pm

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?

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:56 pm

Which river is it from ?

Bobthefloat · Post by **Bobthefloat** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:05 pm

Wanderer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:56 pm Which river is it from ?

Wandle

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:46 pm

It's unusual.

Duckett · Post by **Duckett** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:57 pm

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

Old Man River · Post by **Old Man River** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:58 pm

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

Bobthefloat · Post by **Bobthefloat** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:01 pm

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

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:24 pm

That tail is just like an African tiger fish's, ergo it's a tigerroach.

Did it have big teeth?

Olly · Post by **Olly** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:56 pm

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?

Carp Artist · Post by **Carp Artist** » Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:27 pm

A nice fish, whatever its parentage might be.

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