A proper fish

[Bushwhacker]

A rare Wear springer(my second this season),taken today.About 15lb,safely returned.

[jimmy]

Nice 1 Mr R, ya having canny sessions aint ya, now get the footage sorted out and uploaded lol, well done Dave mate

[jameswlong1941]

Proper fish

Nice pic and a nice looking fish so well done BUSHWACKER m8t and good luck in the future

[The Deeps]

[codseeker]

some man you david ..some man cracking catch ..sick of telling them but they refuse to listen

[Swilsonstu@aol.com]

looks more like a well mended kelt - too thin!

[salmon bob]

looks more like a well mended kelt - too thin!

Never in the creation of crows ****e is that a kelt!!Check out the vent it is solid with no hint of it being swollen...............

[d-a]

kelt

are the fins on a kelt usually in poor condition?????????

[salmon bob]

are the fins on a kelt usually in poor condition?????????

Yes they are they are normally raggy.The fins on this fish are perfect

[DaveyP]

Cracker

What a crackin fish.

[The Deeps]

Way too thin to be a springer.It is fin perfect though,best guess would be a rawner.
Last years model for sure.

If you want to see what a "proper"fish looks like,have a look at the Fishpal Tyne homepage and scroll to the bottom

[<(Andy2009)>]

A rare Wear springer(my second this season),taken today.About 15lb,safely returned.

Lovely condition Salmon that mate, very well done, bet it gave you a good scrap!

Just goes to show our rivers are slowly but surely getting cleaner with stunning fish like that getting caught, especially how fin perfect and brightly coloured that fish is, lovely specimen.

[Bushwhacker]

Way too thin to be a springer.It is fin perfect though,best guess would be a rawner.
Last years model for sure.

If you want to see what a "proper"fish looks like,have a look at the Fishpal Tyne homepage and scroll to the bottom

Definitely a springer mate it had a couple of lice on it,the tails were off them though .Been in a day at most.
I have caught plenty of them over the last 40 years to know the difference..

[bigtel]

its a cracker well done what did it take

[salmon bob]

Way too thin to be a springer.It is fin perfect though,best guess would be a rawner.
Last years model for sure.

If you want to see what a "proper"fish looks like,have a look at the Fishpal Tyne homepage and scroll to the bottom

A rawner is not a skinny fish by the way its a fish that has not spawned therefore they have a saggy belly
Scroll down to second last picture on this link
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