Ive had plenty of small carp and can say that they do pack a punch, some of the smaller ones under 10lb have gone ballistic, tail walked, chugged up and down hugging the bottom, then hit a million mp in 3 seconds, whilst a few of the bigger specimems have had a short scrap, thrashed around in the margins and well thats about it.
Chub, not had any monsters, but those 3 to 4 pounders, on light gear in a small river have given me some real headaches.
Tench, WOW, the biggest last weekend lasted about 3 mins, others and a lot small have kept on the preasure. they just dont want to stop. Even mistaken the runs and lunges for carp before. to be honest tench beat all others ive caught.
A quality Roach, rudd or Perch will also give a great scrap to the net.
Cruciain carp, are they on steroids, not a long fight but for a few seconds go Ape.
bream, had plenty up and off the bottom and into the landing net within seconds.
then theres those are want to play a different game. again had them break the surface on the strike, get their heads down, turn side ways on and and realy scrap all the way to the net too.
Pike, different reactions, not much of a scrap, whilst some have Torpedoed across a lake and kept on a slow but steady battle.
never had a barble, grayling, Salmon.
Dont often target carp or pike.
So No.1 Tench/Carp
No.2 Chub
No.3 big roach/rudd/Perch
No.4 Bream
No.5 A cold