THE ROACH AND RUDD 



great many fish over two pounds have been recorded. I have caught 

 several in the Stour, near Ghristchurch. I have a beautiful fish of two 

 pounds four ounces which was sent to me by my old friend, the late Rev. 

 H. G. Veitch, in November, 1902, netted from the Wiley trout stream, 

 near Wilton, and he sent slightly larger fish, up to two pounds five and 

 three quarter ounces, to the British Museum. In November, 1903, I 

 recorded in ** The Fishing Gazette " a Thames roach of two pounds 

 thirteen and a half ounces, taken by Mr G. Edmonds. But the largest true 

 roach ever taken in this country was netted in November, 1904, out of one 

 of the reservoirs of the Bristol Water Company. Mr C. Tate Regan, who 

 has seen it, says it is undoubtedly a true roach; it was seventeen inches 

 in length, and weighed three pounds ten and a half ounces. I have a fine 

 photograph of it life-size. Rudd over two pounds in weight are not un- 

 common in some waters. Mr Regan says the rudd attains a weight of at 

 least three and a half pounds and length of eighteen inches. 



The illustrations show how to distinguish roach from rudd and chub 

 from dace. 



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