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Originally Posted by Gill Catton well I'm not an angler but I'm 100% interested in fish! And yes mine's bigger than your's pics might get quite dull but as illustrative - this is what barbel looks like - pictures it's still a very useful pic (Lincs, esp with your little ID pointers), but think of all those hours you're sat there, why not take a small tank and a few baited jam jars and catch some tiddlers - some fry - (or would this mess up your fishing by scaring other things away? If so why not do it at the end when you're packing up) see if you can id the adult from the fry - see if you can teach me to do the same!  I think photographs in the natural environment are better because they are more like what you might see when leaning over a bridge or sat on some moorings in the sun when you're struck with a 'what fish is that?' moment..... |
The main problem with taking pictures of fry is that they generally all look similar until they reach a bigger size.It is also quite difficult if you don't know what you are looking at to tell the difference between lots of cyprinid species from above, Roach,Rudd,Bream and Chub can all look very much the same to the untrained observer
Some fish such as Tench and Barbel you won't see a great deal unless you are fishing