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The Anglers Challenge

The Anglers Challenge is quite simple – for your own personal pleasure, catch as many species  as you can from the list of British Fish below.

Record your captures using whatever method you like, it’s your list and your challenge.

The list records fish species found in UK waters by the British Record Fish Committee.

I will be keeping a separate list of holiday/non UK species that I catch.

As of 1st January 2020 I have caught 59 UK species during my angling lifetime (50 years). I’ve never bothered recording our counting the species of fish that I’ve caught abroad (much to my shame and regret).

I am going to start my list from scratch – so will be looking to catch a Salmon again, and oddities like Schelly and Pumpkinseeds again.

The columns below give 190 fish species English and Latin – and I will be adding another column giving details of each species capture as/when/if they happen.

 

Freshwater Fish Latin Name Date and Location of Capture
Barbel Barbus Barbus
Bitterling Rhodeus Amarus June 2020 – Pollys Flash
Bleak Alburnus Albernus
Bream (Common) Abramis Brama June 2020 – Pollys Flash
Bream (Silver) Blicca Bjoerkna
Brown Goldfish
Bullhead Cottus Gobio
Catfish – Wels Silurus Glanis
Carp common/mirror/koi Cyprinus Carpio
Carp – grass Ctenopharyngodon idella
Carp – Crucian Carassius carassius July 2020 – The Hags
Carp – F1
Chub Squalius cephalus
Dace Leuciscus leuciscus June 2020 – Prison Pond
Eel Anguilla Anguilla July 2020 – Mersey Estuary
Gudgeon Gobio Gobio
Ide/Orfe Leuciscus idus
Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus
Motherless Minnow Leucaspius delineatus
Perch Perca fluviatilis July 2020 – The Hags
Pike Esox Lucius Jan 2020  Rochdale Canal
Pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus
Roach Rutilus Rutilus Jan 2020 Rochdale Canal
Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus June 2020 – Prison Pond
Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernua
Shad Allis Alosa Alosa
Shad Twaite Alosa Fallax
Smelt Osmerus eperlanus
Spined Loach Cobitis taenia
Stone Loach Barbatula barbatula
Stickleback 3 spined Gasterosteus aculeatus
Stickleback 9 spined Pungitius Pungitius
Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
Tench Tinca Tinca July 2020 – The Hags
Zander Sander lucioperca
Game Species Latin Name Date and Location of Capture
Arctic Char Salvelinus alpinus
Grayling Thymallus thymallus
Trout – Brown Salmo Trutta
Trout – Rainbow Oncorhynchus mykiss
Trout – Sea Salmo Trutta Morpha
Salmon Salmo Salar
Schelly/Powan Coregonus stigmaticus
Freshwater Species 42
Sea Species Latin Name Date and Location of Capture
Almaco Jack Seriola rivioliana
Angler Fish Lophius Piscatorius
Bass Dicentrarchus Labrax   May 2020 – New Brighton
Black Fish Centrolophus Niger
Bluemouth Helicolinus  Dactylopterus
Blue Runner Caranx Crysos
Bogue Boops Boops
Bonito Sarda Sarda
Bream – Black Spondyliosoma Cantharus
Bream – Couches Pagrus Pagrus
Bream – Gilthead Sparus Aurata
Bream – Pandora Pagellus Erythrinus
Bream – Ray’s Brama Brama
Bream – Red Pagellus Bogaraveo
Bream – White Sea Diplous Sargus
Brill Scophthalmus Rhombus
Bulll Huss Scyliorhinus Stellaris
Catfish Anarhichas Lupus
Coalfish Pollachius Virens
Cod Gadus Morhua
Comber Serranus Cabrilla
Conger Conger Conger
Dab Limanda Limanda May 2020 – Cleveleys
Dogfish – Blackmouth Galeus Melastomus
Dogfish – Lesser Spotted Scyliorhinus Canicula May 2020 – Cleveleys
Flounder Pleuronectes Flesus July 2020 – Perch Rock 
Forkbeard – Greater Phycis Blennoides
Garfish Belone Belone
Greater Weever Trachinus Draco
Greater Amberjack Seriola Demerili
Guinian Amberjack Seriola Carpenteri
Gurnard – Grey Eutrigla Gurnardus
Gurnard – Red Aspitrigla Cuculus
Gurnard – Streaked Trigloporus Lastoviza
Gurnard – Yellow or Tub Trigla Lucerna
Haddock Melanogrammus Aeglefinus
Haddock – Norway Sebastes Viviparus
Hake Merluccius Merluccius
Halibut Hippoglossus Hippoglossus
Herring Clupea Harengus
John Dory Zeus Faber
Ling Molva Molva
Lumpsucker Cyclopterus lumpus
Mackerel Scomber Scombrus August 2020 – Millendreath, Cornwall
Mackerel – Spanish/chub Scomber Colias
Megrim Lepidorhombus Whiffiagonis
Monkfish Squatina Squatina
Mullet – Golden Grey Liza Aurata
Mullet – Red Mullus Surmuletus
Mullet – Thick Lipped Grey Chelon Labrosus
Mullet – Thin Lipped Grey Liza Ramada
Opah Lampris Guttatus
Pelamid (Bonito) Sarda Sarda
Perch – Dusky Epinephelus marginatus
Plaice Pleuronectes Platessa
Pollack Pollachius Pollachius August 2020 – Looe, Cornwall
Pouting Trisopterus Luscus
Puffer fish Lagocephalus Lagocephalus
Ray – Blonde Raja Brachyura
Ray – Bottle Nosed Raja Alba
Ray – Cuckoo Raja Naevus
Ray – Eagle Myliobatis Aquila
Ray – Electric Torpedo Nobiliana
Ray – Marbled Torpedo Marmorata
Ray – Sandy Raja Circularis
Ray – Small Eyed Raja Microocellata
Ray – Spotted Raja Montagui
Ray – Sting Dasyatis Pastinaca
Ray – Thornback Raja Clavata
Ray – Undulate Raja Undulata
Rockling – 3 bearded Gaidropsarus Vulgaris July 2020 – Mersey Estuary
Rockling – Shore Gaidropsarus Mediterraneus
Scad – Horse Mackerel Trachurus Trachurus
Sea Scorpion – Short Spined Myoxocephalus Scorpius
Shark (Blue) Prionace Glauca
Shark (Mako) Isurus Oxyrhinchus
Shark (Porbeagle) Lamna Nasus
Shark (Six Gilled) Hexanchus Griseus
Shark (Thresher) Alopias Vulpinas
Skate (Common) Raja Batis
Smoothhound (starry) Mustelus Asterias Cleveleys – May 2020
Smoothhound Mustelus Mustelus Cleveleys – May 2020
Sole Solea Solea
Sole (Lemon) Microstomus Kitt
Spurdog Squalus Acanthias
Sunfish Mola Mola
Tadpole-Fish Raniceps Raninus
Tope Gaeorhinus Galeus May 2020 – Cleveleys
Tosk Brosme Brosme
Trigger Fish Balistes Capriscus
Tunny Thunnus Thynnus
Tunny (Big Eyed) Thunnus Obesus
Tunny (Long Finned) Thunnus Alalunga
Turbot Scophthalmus Maximus
Whiting Merlangius Merlangus May 2020 – Cleveleys
Whiting (Blue) Micromestius Poutassou
Witch Glyptocephalus Cynoglossus
Wrasse (Ballan) Labrus Bergylta
Wrasse (Cuckoo) Labrus Mixtus
Wreckfish Polyprion Americanus
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Mini Sea Species
Anchovy Engraulis Encrasicolus
Argentine Argentina Sphyraena
Barracudina Paralepis Coregonoides
Black Fish (Cornish) Schedophilus Medusophagus
Blenny-Black Faced Triptarygion Delaisi
Blenny (Butterfly) Blennius Ocellaris
Blenny (Tompot) Parablennius Gattorugine
Blenny (Viviparous) Zoarces Viviparus
Blenny (Yarrells) Chirolophis Ascanii
Boar Fish Capros Aper
Bream (Axillary) Pagellus  Arcane
Bream (Saddled) Oblada Melanura
Butterfish Pholis Gunnellus
Connemara Clingfish Lepadogaster Candolii
Dab (Long Rough) Hippoglossoides Platessoides
Derbio Trachinotus Ovatus
Dragonet Callionymus Lyra
Garfish (Short Beaked) Belone Svetovidovi
Goby (Black) Gobius Niger
Goby (Common) Pomatoschistus Microps
Goby (Giant) Gobius Cobitis
Goby (Leopard Spotted) Thorogobius Ephippiatus
Goby (Sand) Ctenolabrus Rupestris
Goby (Rock) Gobius Paganellus
Pilchard Sardina Pilchardus
Pilot Fish Naucrates Ductor
Pipefish (Greater) Syngnathus Acus
Pipefish (Snake) Entelurus Aequoreus
Pogge Agonus Cataphractus
Poor Cod Trisopterus Minutus
Red Band-Fish Cepola Rubescens
Rockling (5 Beard) Ciliata Mustela
Rockling (4 Beard) Enchelyopus Cimbrius
Sandeel (Corbins) Hyperoplus Immaculatus
Sandeel (Greater) Hyperoplus Lanceolatus
Sea Scorpion (Long Spined) Taurulus Bubalis
Shanny Lipophrys Pholis August 2020, Polperro, Cornwall
Skipper Scomberesox Saurus
Smelt Osmerus Eperlanus
Smelt (Sand) Atherina Presbyter July 2020 – Caernarfon
Smelt (Sand Big Scale) Atherina Boyeri
Stickleback (15 Spined) Spinachia Spinachia
Topnot (Common) Zeugopterus Punctatus
Weever (Lesser) Echiichthys Vipera July 2020 – The Gynn Wall
Wrasse (Baillons) Crenilabrus Bailoni
Wrasse (Corkwing) Crenilabrus Melops
Wrasse(Goldsinney) Ctenolabrus Rupestris
Wrasse (Rock Cook) Centrolabrus Exoletus
Wrasse(ScaleRayed) Acantholabrus Palloni
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Total Species 190

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