The prettiest fish

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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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Beauty is alway in the eye of the beholder and I guess we are all different.

However here is my list of the prettiest fish, starting with number one:

1: Roach
2: Rudd
3: Brown Trout
4: Rainbow trout
5: Seatrout
6: Salmon
7: Dace
8: Barbel
9: Chub
10: Tench
11: Crucian Carp
12: Bream
13: Pike
14: Zander
15: Carp
16: Eel
17: Catfish
 
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1: Golden Mahseer
2: Roach
3: Sea Trout
4: Crucian Carp
5: Salmon
6: Brown Trout (wild)
7: Rudd
8: Perch
9: Chub

The rest of them are ugly
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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If you want to bring in fish in other countries I would bring in Large Scale Yellowfish which are pure gold in the flanks and have fins which are bright crimson and a similar shape to a dace.

This would go number 1.

Oh I forgot perch. Between dace and barbel.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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So did I.

If they didn't have that pointy mouth and those even more pointy eyes they would be high up the scale.

Between dace and barbel.
 
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I'm putting Grayling between Perch and Chub.

The Perch was a really difficult species to place actually. One from a clear water would be a lot higher, wheras one from a muddy Carp pond wouldn't be on the list at all. Went for the average one.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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It all depends on the condition of the fish of course. A bad conditioned rainbow trout can be one of the ugliest fish of all. The worst conditioned fish I ever caught was a mirror carp of 35lbs. It was black with dirty great hookworms crawling out between its scales.

It got bashed on the head and buried.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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Not at all Baz.

In many parts of the world, carp have invaded the habitat of many indigenous species.

A typical example is Australia were on the Murray and Darling river systems they have all but made Barramundi extinct.

Carp have to be killed when caught by law in Australia.

In Southern Africa, carp have invaded yellowfish spawning areas where they made the rivers turbid with their bottom grubbing habits.
 
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For me:
Rudd
Crucian Carp
Bleak
Roach
Grayling
Chub
Brown Trout
Perch
Barbel

Ron, this is a really difficult choice, and one that I think I would make differently on any given day depending on my mood at the time.

I notice that no one mentioned Bleak - so, the next time you catch one (accidentally of course) take a really good look at it.
 
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jason fisher

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If you want to bring in fish in other countries I would bring in Large Scale Yellowfish which are pure gold in the flanks and have fins which are bright crimson and a similar shape to a dace.

This would go number 1.

but you put a foriegn fish in at number 4 on your original list.
 
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Perch
Minnow, in spawning colours.
Rudd
Brown trout
Roach
Tench
Male stickleback, in spawning colours.
Chub
Crucian
Gudgeon
Pike (shame about the front end)
 
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Geoff Cowen

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Grayling
Artic Char
Brown Trout
Sea Trout
Golden Rudd
Tench
Crucian Carp
Salmon
Roach
Barbel
Common Carp
Perch
Pike
 
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jason fisher

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see rons the only person who thinks rainbow trout should be here.

perch
roach
tench
rudd
crucians
pike
brown trout
barbel
common carp
gudgeon
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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And at 14, 15, and 17 Jason.

I am talking about fish now commonly found in this country. Both the Mahseer and Large Scale Yellowfish would not survive here being tropical species.
 
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jason fisher

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14 zander european fish we're in euorpe so it should be here.

15 carp probably got a lot to do with europe certainly developed in the form its in in europe so that shopuld be here as well.

17 wells catfish europes largest catfish species, once more we're in euorpe its a european fish it should be here.

4) American Rainbow trout. its an american fish so it doesnt belong here.and as you are so fond of pointing out it cant breed in this country so it definitely shouldnt be here.
 
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