How heavy?

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?


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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.

In article , Phil L
wrote:
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!?

I agree - dimensions are a bit odd but -if- it was a roach somewhere between
3/4 and 1 1/4 lb

But whatever it was, go and do it again ;-)

Hint: If you have nothing else you have some fishing line. Next time you
need to know exactly how long a fish is just cut off a bit to the same
length and stow it carefully 'til you get to a ruler.

So whatever it was, you'll have to go and do it again** ;-)

Cheerio,

** Any excuse will do.

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knock it on the head, freeze it, and weigh it when you have a few...!
"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , Phil L
wrote:
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!?

I agree - dimensions are a bit odd but -if- it was a roach somewhere
between
3/4 and 1 1/4 lb

But whatever it was, go and do it again ;-)

Hint: If you have nothing else you have some fishing line. Next time you
need to know exactly how long a fish is just cut off a bit to the same
length and stow it carefully 'til you get to a ruler.

So whatever it was, you'll have to go and do it again** ;-)

Cheerio,

** Any excuse will do.

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knock it on the head, freeze it, and weigh it when you have a few...!
"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , Phil L
wrote:
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!?

I agree - dimensions are a bit odd but -if- it was a roach somewhere
between
3/4 and 1 1/4 lb

But whatever it was, go and do it again ;-)

Hint: If you have nothing else you have some fishing line. Next time you
need to know exactly how long a fish is just cut off a bit to the same
length and stow it carefully 'til you get to a ruler.

So whatever it was, you'll have to go and do it again** ;-)

Cheerio,

** Any excuse will do.

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"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , Phil L
wrote:
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

knock it on the head, freeze it, and weigh it when you have a few...!

Roach? Especially as it's still relatively early in their season?

You'd need to be -really- hungry to justify that process.

Cheerio,

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In article , NNNews....
wrote:

"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , Phil L
wrote:
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

knock it on the head, freeze it, and weigh it when you have a few...!

Roach? Especially as it's still relatively early in their season?

You'd need to be -really- hungry to justify that process.

Cheerio,

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