252 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
CHAPTFERSX XT: 
ROACH AND RU Dw: 
Roach and Rudd are distinct species—Points of difference and simi- 
larity. Hybrids amongst fish doubtful. Distinguishing characte- 
ristics of Roach and Rudd, and how to be identified. 4 new va- 
riety of Rudd—Habitats of Roach and Rudd. Spawning season. 
Best baits and ground baits in running and stagnant waters, and how 
to use them. ‘Tackle. Other species of the Roach genus. 
WHERE Rudd are found it is almost invariably in waters 
which are also inhabited by Roach (although the con- 
verse of the proposition by no means holds good), and 
as the two species closely resemble each other both in 
habits and in the method of fishing for them, baits, &c., 
I have bracketed them together. 
Roach and Rudd, indeed, have so many striking 
points of resemblance that the latter were formerly con- 
sidered by writers on ichthyology to be a “bastard 
Roach,” bred betwixt the true Roach and the Bream— 
an opinion held by, if not originating with, Izaac Walton, 
who also considered the White Bream or Bream-flat, a 
cross between the same species. Modern science has, 
however, exposed the fallacy of this notion, and the three 
fish are now always recognised as distinct species. 
