When Fred J Taylor wrote Angling in Earnest, he included a piece relating to some unusually shaped perch in the Upper Ouse and, for the want of a better term, we called them pug-nosed perch. Although I never caught one of them despite the large numbers of perch I caught in that part of the river, Fred did show me some pictures of them and he published one of the pictures in the mentioned book. I never really discussed the matter in depth with Fred and was happy to go along with his supposition that those particular perch were predominantly bottom feeders.
As can be seen, the head of the lower perch is very different to the head on the fish above it.
However, recently, while sorting through some of my old photo's from the 1970's I came across some pictures of some codling I had caught and one of them differed from the others just as Fred's perch did.
It was obvious I had caught a pug-nosed codling and it would be unlikely to be that shape because of its bottom feeding habits being as most cod will feed voraciously on the bottom or anywhere else there may be food. Anyway, I began to wonder about such fish and did a bit of a search around and discovered that there are "Pug-nosed" varieties of a large number of species of fish around the world and so I wondered if anyone here has caught any of any species from the waters they fish around the country or, indeed, anywhere else in the world?
As can be seen, the head of the lower perch is very different to the head on the fish above it.
However, recently, while sorting through some of my old photo's from the 1970's I came across some pictures of some codling I had caught and one of them differed from the others just as Fred's perch did.
It was obvious I had caught a pug-nosed codling and it would be unlikely to be that shape because of its bottom feeding habits being as most cod will feed voraciously on the bottom or anywhere else there may be food. Anyway, I began to wonder about such fish and did a bit of a search around and discovered that there are "Pug-nosed" varieties of a large number of species of fish around the world and so I wondered if anyone here has caught any of any species from the waters they fish around the country or, indeed, anywhere else in the world?