Fish species

The heavyweight of still and slow water that built a whole branch of angling.

The vegetarian torpedo that fights like nothing else in the lake.

The plankton-sieving giant that jumps clear of the water and pulls like a tractor.

The plankton-feeding giant of warm, fertile lakes and slow rivers.

The golden, shy little carp of weedy ponds and forgotten backwaters.

The tough, silvery all-rounder that fills every lowland water in the Danube basin.

The olive-green, red-eyed summer fish of weedy lakes and misty dawns.

The bronze shoal fish of big rivers and lakes — the feeder angler's bread and butter.

The small, silver cousin of the bream that fills keepnets on slow rivers and canals.

The silver shoal fish that keeps float anglers busy all year round.

The golden, red-finned surface feeder of weedy lakes and summer evenings.

The big-mouthed, all-year opportunist of rivers and streams — it eats almost anything.

The silvery all-rounder of big lowland rivers — grazer, riser and hunter in one.

Europe's only predatory cyprinid — the silver missile of fast, open river water.

The bronze powerhouse of fast, gravel-bottomed rivers.

The stone-grazing shoal fish of clean, fast-flowing rivers.

The flashing surface shoal fish — and the bait every predator angler wants.

The low-light hunter of deep, murky rivers and reservoirs.

The zander's small, bold-striped cousin of the Danube and Volga basins.

The striped, bold-biting predator of every lake, river and canal in Europe.

The small, spiny bottom-feeder that bites when nothing else will.

The ambush predator with the biggest teeth in European fresh water.

Europe's biggest freshwater fish — a night-feeding giant of deep, slow rivers.

The small, spiny, invasive American catfish that bites on almost anything.

The only freshwater cod — a cold-water night hunter that bites best in winter.

The night-feeding, snake-like wanderer with the strangest life cycle in fresh water.

The wary, spotted native of cold rivers and deep lakes.

The silver, sea-going brown trout that runs the rivers at night.

The hard-fighting, high-jumping trout of stocked lakes and cool rivers.

The jewel-coloured char of icy headwaters and mountain lakes.

The cold-water char of deep alpine lakes and Arctic rivers.

The sail-finned lady of clean, fast-flowing rivers.

The giant winter predator of the Danube basin's fast, cold rivers.

The king of fish — ocean-run silver returning to its home river.

The silver plankton feeder of deep, cold, clear lakes.

The small, fringed-barbel sturgeon of the Danube and its big tributaries.

The dazzling North American sunfish that has colonised Europe's warm shallows.

The bucket-mouthed ambush predator of warm, weedy water — king of topwater.

The bronze brawler of clear, rocky rivers — pound for pound the hardest fighter.

North America's zander: a glass-eyed twilight hunter of big lakes and rivers.

North America's favourite catfish, now a night-feeding guest in a few European waters.

The migratory American cousin of the seabass — surf, estuary and reservoir brawler.

The silver predator of surf, rocks and estuaries — Europe's premier shore game fish.

The gold-browed bream of shallow bays and lagoons – wary, strong and superb on the table.

The blue-flecked, big-toothed predator of Mediterranean drop-offs.

The wary, hard-fighting grazer of harbours, estuaries and lagoons.

The fast, striped shoal fish that lights up summer coasts.

The green-boned, beaked acrobat of spring coasts and summer surfaces.

The cold-water heavyweight of the North Sea, Baltic and Norwegian coast.

The night-hunting heavyweight of rocks, harbour walls and wrecks.