Phil Crook wrote:
:: Silly question this really. am newish to fishing, tonight i caught
:: a roach, which i think is a fair size. But i have no scales to
:: weigh it. so it was about 10-12" long by 6" high chubby. Any ideas
:: how heavy this size of roach would be?
::
::
A foot long and six inches deep!?
It may have been a chub...did it look like this:
http://www.barbel.co.uk/site/bulletin/june02/chub.jpg

or this:
http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/images/articles/roger14.jpg
These are roach, thier tails are more orange than chub, whose tails are
greyish/silver.
A chubs front fin is this colour too, whereas a roach's is bright red.