FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 



ROACH iCyprinus Rutilus). 



DORSAL or BACK 



FIN. 



Salmon 9 Tront hmilici 



have ■ fin here called the 



Adipose Fio, 



PBCTORAL FIN 



VENTRAL FIN. 



The Roach is a handsome fish. Yarrell says : — "It has many more colours than the rainbow, dusky jreen on the 

 back, with blue reflections becoming lighter on its sides, passing into silvery white on the belly, the irides yellow, 

 gill-covers silvery white, tail and dorsal fin tinged with red, pectoral fins, ventral and anal fins bright red." Where • 

 so-called specimen Roach is produced which exceeds 2 lb. 12 oz., it is almost certain to be a Rudd or Hybrid. 



In the Roach the back fin is nearly or quite over the belly fins. 

 [Note. — Mr R. B. Marston, Editor of the Fishing Gazette, considers that the largest true Roach caught in England 

 by fair angling, was one of 2 lb. 13i oz., caught by Mr George Edmonds, of Walton-on-Thames, and preserved 

 November 18, 1904, by Lewis Hutton, Naturalist, Bristol. Its length was 18 in., girth 14 in.] 



RUDD. 



In the Rudd the back fin is set much farther back than in the Roaeh. 



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