What are these fish?

[cb]

I was sent this image tonight from a friend who took this photo walking along the banks of a local river. He thought they were between 4 and 6in in length which puzzled me a bit -- so I thought I'd ask the experts!

 

[peter crabtree]

look like minnows to me but 6" ..........? stone loach?

 

[Sean Meeghan]

I'd say they were minnows. Maybe he misjudged the length?

 

[dezza]

Definitely minnows.

 

[little oik]

got to be minnows with those markings

 

[cb]

Minnows,

I'd thought that too - but when he said how long they were and that he'd been told by a local angler that they were Gudgeon I started to doubt myself! :doh:

Colin

 

[geoffmaynard]

He probably meant centimetres

 

[cb]

He probably meant centimetres

He actually said 10 to 15cm - it was me that put it in old money

Just must be proper 'man' sized like we breed them up here in Durham.

River Browney, Durham City (Wear trib).

Colin

 

[chav professor]

RECORD BREAKING MINNOWS!!! AND YOU POSTED THEIR LOCATION HERE

Just wait, you will have the specimen angling world descend en mass, you'll never get a minnow swim again.....mg:

 

[alan whittington]

They are minnows,he probably says he's got 15" private parts too.

 

[barbelboi]

Yes minnows.
Caught a barbel on minnow live bait from Marlow Weir in the 70’s. Admittedly I was fishing for chub at the time but surely this must be a rarity.

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Oops - apparently not - thinking back I vaguely recall minnow live bait being used intentionally for barbel.

 

[alan whittington]

Yes minnows.
Caught a barbel on minnow live bait from Marlow Weir in the 70’s. Admittedly I was fishing for chub at the time but surely this must be a rarity.

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Oops - apparently not - thinking back I vaguely recall minnow live bait being used intentionally for barbel.

It definitely isnt mate,the late,great,Peter Stone caught many barbel trotting minnow when he was a boy.

 

[barbelboi]

It definitely isnt mate,the late,great,Peter Stone caught many barbel trotting minnow when he was a boy.

Exactly, hence my oops, - and that was probably on the Thames as well.

 

[alan whittington]

Exactly, hence my oops, - and that was probably on the Thames as well.

Indeed yes and a great read it is too.