Fish ID required

[Anderoo]

Weighed 10oz and was caught today from the Thames:

 

 

What do you reckon?

[Kappa]

Weighed 10oz and was caught today from the Thames:

 

 

What do you reckon?

 

Silver! Or a hybrid.....? Deffo not a bronze bream.

 

Rich

[Tigger]

Arn't the orange fin's a sign of a hybrid ? Actually (just looked at a few pic's) I think they do have an orange tinge to the fins so it could well be one.

Edited January 22, 2012 by Tigger

[tincatinca]

Looks as if it has the attributes of a silver.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Bream

[Chris Plumb]

This might help...

 

http://www.fishingmagic.com/features/diaries/12177.html

 

C.

[Guest redfin2]

It's a Skimmer, get a life

[Anderoo]

Cheers guys. Hopefully Mark Wintle will see this and comment. If it is a true silver I think it's probably a PB! It was a gorgeous looking fish with a lovely silvery, bluey sheen.

 

I had a real mixed bag today. A few nice roach up to 12oz in spanking condition, the (hopefully silver) bream, a Rudd, and strangest of all TWO brown trout! Both times I thought I was connected to the mother of all roach. It's good to see the brownies in the Thames, a very positive sign indeed.

[lutra]

Cheers guys. Hopefully Mark Wintle will see this and comment. If it is a true silver I think it's probably a PB! It was a gorgeous looking fish with a lovely silvery, bluey sheen.

 

I had a real mixed bag today. A few nice roach up to 12oz in spanking condition, the (hopefully silver) bream, a Rudd, and strangest of all TWO brown trout! Both times I thought I was connected to the mother of all roach. It's good to see the brownies in the Thames, a very positive sign indeed.

With transparent fins, i would say it looks like well do on a new PB.

[Grumpalot]

Length of snout forward of eye less than diameter of eye, orange underfins, white-ish scales (its old name was "white bream") - that's a silver.

[Vagabond]

Only just seen that - it has all the characteristics of a silver.

 

Bluish sheen, orange lower fins and the bright mirror-like appearance of the scales.

 

The transverse lateral count from dorsal fin to lateral line is about 10 or 11 - consistent with silver (bronze have 11 to 15)

 

One very obvious feature that doesn't show up in photos is the lack of slime (they are not much more slimy than a dace) although only those who actually catch them will know about it.