Sturgeon - Thames

[Elton]

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/news/articles/605.html

[J.K]

"There are over 120 species of fish in the River Thames"

 

Is that a fact? If so could anybody give me a link to all the speices in the thames?

 

Joel

[Chris Plumb]

Most of these would be sea species found in the Thames Estuary...

 

 

C.

[Steve Walker]

Chris Plumb:

Most of these would be sea species found in the Thames Estuary...

C.

Exactly:

 

http://www.thamesweb.com/page.php?page_id=...&topic_id=8

[J.K]

Forgot about that lol .. thats a very healthy stock of fish

 

Joel

[waddis]

Anybody know how big the sturgeon was?

 

[ 15. July 2005, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: waddis ]

[argyll]

"There are over 120 species of fish in the River Thames

 

I had two of them this morning

 

I suspect that the sturgeon was planted by Anglers Mail just to boost circulation

 

[ 15. July 2005, 02:02 PM: Message edited by: argyll ]

[Elton]

I take it that was a joke, Argyll? Anglers Mail haven't been around for many years for nothing and are usually one of the first places people call when seeing something unusual, or catching a big fish.

[ben_weir]

It wasn't planted I can assure you...

 

It came floating past me and the match editor as we were talking to an eel angler.

 

It was about 10-15 lb wouldn't like to be anymore precise than that as it was minging....been 'gone' for quite some time.

 

It may seem odd that it was found by a fishing mag but had on my heart it was not planted!!!

[Elton]

Hi Ben,

 

Nice to see you on here.

 

I hadn't realised you'd found it 'first hand', so to speak.

 

I used to have smaller (a lot smaller) diamond sturgeon in my pond and they were always extremely difficult to keep, which is why I don't bother with them. If this fish was removed from a pond and placed in the Thames, I'd hazard a guess that it didn't last long