What weight approx

[Puzzled]

Got to be a pound and a half at least, possibly a bit more as it looks quite chunky.

 

Good fish!

[gozzer]

Blimey ! I think I ought to come up to Yorkshire to fish for your fat roach !

 

When I catch a 12" roach it's only an ounce or two over the pound .........

 

Ok Dave I did say "around 12 inch".

I've just looked at the weight to length ratio, and it suggests 1lb 8oz at 13". So in my book 13", is "around" 12".

 

My 1lb 13oz fish was exactly 15", so that might help you TT.

 

 

Talking of fish weighing more in one place than another. The week after we fished a bream dominated match on the Yorkshire Ouse, we had another on the R Idle. Size for size the Yorks bream weighed about 50% more than the R Idle bream did.

It must be the Yorkshire water Dave.

 

John.

[Steve Walker]

Clearly those Yorkshire fish are full of it, John!

[arbocop]

I agree that the fish is probably around the 1lb 8oz mark.

 

However, I think - but I'm no expert! - that is a roach x rudd intgergeneric hybrid. It's not just the slight brassy colour, which oculd be a trick of the light, the fin positions suggest that it is a bit of both. Drawing an imaginary line from the pelvic to dorsal fin shows the dorsal is further back than a roach, but less so than a rudd. Also, the eye is red, i.e. roach, the upturned mouth is rudd like, as is the slightly more red tail - roach are nearly always a transparent dark grey/black. Also the lateral line is a little lower than normal. You can count the rays in the dorsal fin, but it's probably a bit difficult now!

 

I wouldn't give a monkeys though, if I caught it I would be made up.

 

Mike