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Game Fish

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Coarse Fish

Rare Species

An illustrated guide to more than 50 freshwater game and coarse fish, sea fish and rare/minor fish species.

Each image links to a page containing larger pictures, indentification guides and details of food and habitat requirements for each of the fish species shown here.

Game fish

Brown
Trout

Salmo
trutta

Sea Trout
(Sewin)

Salmo
trutta

Rainbow
Trout

Oncorhynchus
mykiss

Atlantic
Salmon

Salmo
salar

Grayling
(Umber)

Thymallus
thymallus

Coarse fish

Carp Cyprinus carpio	Tench Tinca tinca	Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernua	Roach Rutilis rutilis	Chub Leuciscus cephalus
Wels catfish Silurus glanis	Dace Leuciscus leuciscus	Rudd Sardinius erythropthalmus	Bream Abramis brama	Perch Perca fluviatilis
Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus	Barbel Barbus barbus	Pike Esox lucius	Gudgeon Gobio gobio	Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus

Sea fish

Bass Dicentrarchus labrax	Black bream Spondyliosoma cantharus	Cod Gadus morhua	Conger Eel Conger conger	Turbot Scophthalmus maximus	Smoothhound Mustelus asterias
Dab Limanda limanda	Cuckoo wrasse Labrus mixtus	Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula	Flounder Platychthys flesus	Tope Galeorhinus galeus	Wolf eel Anarrhichthys ocellatus
Grey mullet Crenimugil labrosus	Thornback ray Raja clavata	Grey gurnard Eutrigla gurnardus	John dory Zeus faber	Undulate ray Raja undulata	Tub gurnard Trigla lucerna
Mackerel Scomber scomber	Plaice Pleuronectes platessa	Pollack Pollachius pollachius	Pout Trisopterus luscus	Ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta	Stingray Dasyatis pastinaca
Red mullet Mullus surmuletus	Rockling Ciliata mustela	Scad Trachurus trachurus	Skate Raja batis	Red gurnard Aspitrigla cuculus	Huss Scyliorhinus stellaris
	Gilthead bream Sparus aurata	Pictures in this section are copyright Dave Lewis, Nick Giles and Pat O'Reilly. All rights reserved.