3lb 4oz roach???

[Alan Whitty]

 

[Alan Whitty]

It won't let me post on the above post, so here goes, the guy says it's a beautiful roach, but it doesn't look like a roach to me, mouth looks wrong, anal fins are more rudd like, so maybe a rudd/roach hybrid???

 

[Ray Roberts]

It’s not always easy to tell. This one was caught by a mate of mine a few years ago and looked like the real thing.

I’ve had some quite big hybrids in the past and most you can tell before they hit the net. The jury’s still out on this one.

 

[Mark Wintle]

I think it's more likely a roach x rudd than true roach - level lips, dorsal set back and two colour anal fin.

 

[markcw]

I saw that on FB and didn't think it was a true roach .

 

[RMNDIL]

It won't let me post on the above post, so here goes, the guy says it's a beautiful roach, but it doesn't look like a roach to me, mouth looks wrong, anal fins are more rudd like, so maybe a rudd/roach hybrid???

That was my instant thought too

 

[Ray Roberts]

The fish I posted earlier was in the Angling Times and they claimed to be a new record. The AT brought out some luminaries from the roach fishing world who said in their opinion it was a true roach. The captor wasn’t so sure and didn’t lodge a claim, he was mainly put off by the size of the fish.

Since then the record has gone up several times and there was a claim for a record from Carsington Reservoir for a fish weighing 4lb13oz in April last year, but I can’t find any more info on it. Maybe Mark Wintle would know more.

 

[Mark Wintle]

Since then the record has gone up several times and there was a claim for a record from Carsington Reservoir for a fish weighing 4lb13oz in April last year, but I can’t find any more info on it. Maybe Mark Wintle would know more.

I tried to find out what had happened to the claim for the 4-13 fish from someone on the BRFC but he wouldn't tell me. All I know is that it isn't the record and when the valid claims were ratified there was no mention of what had happened to this fish. I suspect there was a major omission in the procedure but what that was I really don't know.

 

[Ray Roberts]

I tried to find out what had happened to the claim for the 4-13 fish from someone on the BRFC but he wouldn't tell me. All I know is that it isn't the record and when the valid claims were ratified there was no mention of what had happened to this fish. I suspect there was a major omission in the procedure but what that was I really don't know.

Cheers Mark, I couldn’t find anything either.

 

[Blue Fisher]

I think the type of water has quite an influence on the shape of roach. The decent roach I have had have all come from relatively fast flowing rivers. Although some were old fish they were all a good shape. I was on a Welsh canal when a local caught his fish of a lifetime. There were very few people around and he needed to show someone. I think it was weighed at just over two. It did not look anything like the roach from the Hampshire rivers, far flatter on the underside. I did not question this at all since the chap was obviously overjoyed at his capture and I did not want to cast any doubt on it.