Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Gill Catton I saw lots of little fish (maybe 25cm at the most) swimming up a brook away from me |
Now just a minute - I just read back to this point and realised what you said, and I must say if you think 25cm is SMALL than you should take up fishing. It is for sure that no gudgeon ar loach was ever this size. Perhaps you meant 25mm? but that would be very small indeed so unless you say otherwise I am going to settle for 2.5ins. I prefer inches anyway.
However -
Gudgeon have one pair of barbules and are silvery. A loach has several barbules and according to the books is mottled brown. Funnily enough, all the loach I have ever caught (accidentally) have been so pale coloured as to be almost transparent.
Bear in mind though, that a silver-scales fish seen from above looks the colour of the river bed because the scales reflect the colour below. That is why they are silver.