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unusual facts about Common Roach



Gatwick Stream

Native species of fish found in this stream include Brown Trout, Chub, Dace, Roach, Pike, Millers Thumb (European Bullhead), Brook Lamprey, Gudgeon, Stone Loach and Minnow.

Knypersley Reservoir

The fishery is well known for its stocks of large fish, notably bream, but also includes roach, perch, pike and a few carp that due to their low numbers are not easy to catch.

Northenden

Fishing can be very good here as this stretch contains trout, roach, dace, eels, pike, salmon (mid autumn-mid-spring and this goes for sea trout), chub, barbel and some grayling have been caught.

Rhosneigr

There is a good stock of fish in the lake including Perch, Bream, Roach and Pike.

River Rother, South Yorkshire

Laman Blanchard, writing in 1836, described the Rother as "a beauteous stream", and noted that chub, roach and perch were caught by fishermen who fished from its banks.

Half of the total of 2,500 chub and 2,500 roach were released near the new weir, and the other half at Hall Road in Staveley.


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