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Something doesn't look quite right about that fish to me? Am I just imagining it?

Hard to be sure but I have the same feeling.

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Me too, looks like a roach/Rudd. I wish I had caught it though.

 

Mike

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i dont think enough people tackle roach fishing these days with the out break of commercials! i cant get enough of it and think its much more exciting and skillful than sitting behind a buzzer! i will deffinatly be on the local river rother with long trotting gear for the quality roach and chub fishing!

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  • 3 weeks later...

Had a quick go this evening at the side stream, quivertipping bread into dark. It had dropped a lot since I was last there and is now very shallow. I had one nice roach and 4 decent chub, it was nice to be out on the bank again but as the rivers drop I think this place will start to be hard work. So that's probably that for now. It's been a real pleasure fishing it though, and great to find some good roach in otherwise impossible conditions.

 

Back to the Thames for the last week I think, it's just about fishable. Slim chance of a fish or two!

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True roach.... or roach-rudd ?

 

Hmmmm... Sometimes that depends on whether it was caught by you or your mates - or by someone else :unsure:

 

Here is a fish I caught earlier. Older netsters will have seen it before ! I'm not going to enter a debate on someone else's fish, but I put this in my fishing log as a three-pound twelve-ounce roach-rudd hybrid.

 

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It came from a water that held true rudd to three pounds, lemon-finned rudd to over two pounds, and roach-rudd hybrids to OVER FIVE POUNDS. My mate, the late Roger Standen, came across a dead five-pounder, which was duly authenticated as a roach-rudd hybrid by some capable organisation (forgotten which, but it may have been the British Museum of Natural History)

 

Just to add a twist to the story, none of the group that fished there ever caught a true roach from the water in question, nor have we ever seen or heard of anyone else doing so

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