Can anyone tell me -

[Chevin]

During my 2004 visit to the UK I fished one of the pay and catch waters in Kent and one of the carp anglers kept referring to silver fish as though they were something to be despised. I asked him what silver fish were and he told me that they were anything that weren't carp. The sad thing about it was that I could see from his tackle and methods that he was certainly not a carp angler as I knew them many years ago. He obviously had no idea as to how to go about fishing for a species of fish selectively.

 

[Trisantona]

The term Silverfish originated in Canal matchfishing when the mainstay of building a team weight were Gudgeon,any roach,hybrids,skimmers etc. were lumped together and called silverfish and were a huge bonus,a typical canal match would be won with ,say,6 lb. of gudgeon plus silvers....the term was popularised in the writings of Frank Barlow,Billy Making and Mark Downes etc.

 

[JOHN POWELL 5]

Latin tinca tinca!!

 

[Wayne Bradford]

i have allways thought i silver fish was a baby bream or roach anything that isent big enough to class as a fish yet

 

[Chevin]

Wayne Bradford E-mail member
Posted: 06/05/07 11:33:00 AM
i have allways thought i silver fish was a baby bream or roach anything that isent big enough to class as a fish yet

I have to say that is the saddest explanation I have seen. However small a fish might be, it is a fish to someone. I can remember the days I was pleased with the biggest stickleback I caught during the course of a day. While I may not want to catch tiny fish these days, I remember the pleasure they gave me when I was a kid and I would never treat them with contempt.

 

[Steve Spiller]

I think the rules state "Two keepnets, one for silvers, the other for carp".

That explains it all..........dunnit???