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Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly 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  |
Oh I don't know, you see quite a few fish when wading up a river looking for water voles! I've seen lots but have no idea most of the time what I am looking at
Books aren't much use to me it seems because the hand painted illustrations don't look like what i see in the water!!! Stickleback, minnow, bullhead, roach/rudd (can't separate them though!) carp (can't seperate them either!), perch, pike, eel and trout I know everything else is a mystery!
I saw lots of little fish (maybe 25cm at the most) swimming up a brook away from me when doing a WV survey a couple of months ago, they looked to be bottom dwellers with splayed pectorals, downward mouths and whiskers and eyes more on top of their heads than on either side, they were sandy brown and blotch through the water, I thought they might be stone loach? but have no idea really!