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I kind of rank the species I fish for, there are those I always fish for every year, those I wish I fished for more and those that frankly I don't care that much about but if I catch one well it's nice enough but don't have the time or inclination to target them. The list's are not fixed and some fish will move up to my main interest, while others fall away.

 

Passion for and take up a lot of fishing time

 

Tench

Perch

Carp (Passion for cooling recently)

 

Enjoy and do a little

 

Pike

Zander (Has gone up from aspirational the last few seasons)

 

Aspirational list - those I wish I fished for more

 

Barbel

Chub

Eel

Catfish

Rudd

 

Not much interest

 

Roach

Bream (But developing an interest in the big ones, might find this going up the charts :D )

Dace

 

Any one specialise in just one species? Or are you all rounders? Or do you favour one or two species over all others?

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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Roach are my favourite by variety is the spice of life; fished for roach, crucians and tench yesterday, after tench later today.

 

Over the course of a season I'll fish for most freshwater species and one or two sea ones as well.

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It's seasonal for me. Early summer is mostly tench. Barbel usually late summer. Chub, perch and grayling, September to March. Rainbow trout on my local water, January to June. Rainbow trout on Farmoor, May, with the odd trip at other times. Brown trout, March-May. I take what I can get, though. The odd day fly fishing or spinning in summer for chub and perch, the odd barbel session at the back end, the odd trip to the beach.

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I will always be a sucker for barbel and so they come top of my list. As Anderoo says everything else is a close second but I am aiming to do far more trotting on the river this season and also would like to do more lure fishing for pike, perch, trout and chub.

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Easy one this - first is chub, everything else equal second.

 

 

well ,it had too be chub for me too (i'm not called chavender for nothing) same as Anderoo really all the rest are equally second, i love catching everything and anything thays there before me .and everyone is like my first ,giving me that giddy excitement i felt as a kid .

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It's seasonal for me.

 

 

Snap - this time of year its tench and crucians (just had a new PB of 3-13 - see blog! ;) ) and barbel on the float whilst they're still on the shallows post spawning. As we get later in the year attention turns to trying for bigger barbel on the lead and as we head into autumn its chub, perch followed by grayling and dace as we head into winter - plus trying to track down those elusive Kennet roach. Similar to Tigger I love trotting so the autumn/winter river campaign is anticpated as much as June 16th...

 

 

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Passion for and take up a lot of fishing time

 

Perch

Carp

Tench

 

Enjoy and do a little

 

Pike

Barbel

Chub

 

Aspirational list - those I wish I fished for more

 

Tench

Bream

Koi

 

Not much interest

 

Roach

Eel

Bleak

Dace

Zander

Catfish

Ide

Species Caught 2011: Mirror Carp, Barbel, Ide, Rudd, Roach, Bleak, Perch, Bream,

 

Species Caught 2010: Perch, Pike, Roach, Rudd, Bleak, Bream, Gudgeon, Ruffe, Ide, Tench, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Barbel, Chub, F1, Crusian Carp, Goldfish

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It’s a shame to rank them but if I had to the main species for me are chub & perch with barbel coming up fast on the rails (trotting though, never tried static fishing for them). Tench have moved up the ranking quite a lot since my spring activities and Wingham so I’ll always have time for them. I’ll always have room for roach too but locating good sized specimens would be a time consuming exercise I think.

 

Other species don’t hold as much interest for me but it is marginal, the only fish I really don’t have any interest in are carp, bream and pike.

It's never a 'six', let's put it back

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