Dace or Chub

[DJMCJERICO]

Possible hybrid?

 

 

You mean a Race?

 

 

Looks like a skimmer to me to.

[Nightwing]

Whatever it is...it looks like it would make a good bass or pike bait. Here, we would call it a "shiner", I use them for pike, bass, walley, even large trout. The work very well!

[Chris Plumb]

I'd still go for dace - some dace - even young un's have yellowy fins. Such dace used to be called Graining - and at one time it was believed that they were a different species of fish...

 

 

C.

[Guest Ferret1959]

I'd still go for dace - some dace - even young un's have yellowy fins. Such dace used to be called Graining - and at one time it was believed that they were a different species of fish...

 

 

C.

 

Was that when you was a lad before the first World war? :D

[Chris Plumb]

Was that when you was a lad before the first World war? :D

 

 

Cheeky sod - you're older than me! There was actually an article about Graining in Waterlog some years ago - can't track down which issue atm...

 

 

C.

[Vagabond]

Tis a "Dobule" zurr, look'ee in "British Freshwater Fishes" (1879) by the Rev W Houghton.

 

Like so many of Houghton's fancy fishes, it is a colour variant of a common species - in this case a roach (according to Yarell) or a dace (according to Gunther)

 

Graining (a brownish tinged dace) and Azurine (Lemon finned rudd) are other examples