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Is it possible to tell the species of fish from the bubbles?

 

A group of big bubbles is obviously carp. But what about a mass of very small bubbles covering an area the size of a dinner plate? I used to think small bubbles meant tench or crucians, but I'm wondering if a circular group of them means carp?

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Is it possible to tell the species of fish from the bubbles?

 

A group of big bubbles is obviously carp. But what about a mass of very small bubbles covering an area the size of a dinner plate? I used to think small bubbles meant tench or crucians, but I'm wondering if a circular group of them means carp?

 

 

Sounds very much like Tench to me.

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yes its just morse code ,the big bubbles are dashes the small ones dots ,but ofcourse you maybe able to get the sequence on paper but can you read carpese or tenchese ;)

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yes its just morse code ,the big bubbles are dashes the small ones dots ,but ofcourse you maybe able to get the sequence on paper but can you read carpese or tenchese ;)

 

I have also had small bubbles from a big roach

I thought it was tench also but after about 5 roach and no tench I could only come to one conclustion

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I refer the honorable gentleman to the answer I gave some months ago

 

The smaller ones may be fish, larger ones from the same spot are probably just rotting vegetation - especially if they "pop" as soon as they come to the surface.

 

If the bubbles take a long time to "pop" it is probably because they have a thin film of mucus acquired when they pass through a fish's gill rakers (bream bubbles tend to be very persistent). A large patch of tiny bubbles usually means tench, a moving string of small bubbles indicates bream or carp. A huge patch, together with a smoke screen and a boil, means a BIG carp is dive bombing the bottom.

 

and as Bluerinse says, sometimes you get small bubbles from bottom-feeding roach. I fish a place where you get "lift" bites above bubble patches every few minutes from dawn to mid-morning. You wind up with about fifty roach of half-pound upwards, and two or three good-sized tench.

 

 

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And don't forget gudgeon. :)

I've seen patches of tiny bubbles coming from a large shoal of feeding gudgeon.

 

John.

Angling is more than just catching fish, if it wasn't it would just be called 'catching'......... John

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I have always thought that big Clouds of small bubbles that come up every few seconds and are moving in a line each time they appear are from Tench but I may think again next time as some of the smaller bubble patches may be from Roach.

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