Attention fishermen

[lacroupade]

Sadly I didn't get a pic of it, mainly because it was rotting and there were eight dogs milling about so I couldn't go and get my camera, but this morning I found a fish washed up on my river beach and I've no idea what it was.

I live on the River Towy (or Tywi) in West Wales, which is reckoned as one of the top salmon and sea trout rivers in the UK....not that we see many fish as they tend to run upstream during the night a lot of the time and I'm not a bleeding fisherman, I prefer to spend my time watching the kingfishers and dippers.

This fish looked for all the world like a dogfish ( as per the photo) but thats saltwater isn't it?

It was 18 inches long, silvery in colour with grey flecking over the lower 2/3rds of its body. It had a dogfish like tail but all I could see were two other fins on the rear third of its body - like the dogfish fins in location, except they were rounded, not with that steep angle at the rear like the dogfish - and its mouth appeared (it was a tad manky) to be very downward facing, almost like, say, a ramora? There may have been other fins rotted away but the two that were present were what I'd call quite substantial and I couldn't see evidence of anywhere that other fins might have been located?

So if anyone has any bright ideas I'd be interested to hear....the river itself tends to be quite fast flowing and rocky, certainly above Llandovery where I am, with deepish pools at intervals where the water slows down occasionally - if that helps with habitat?

Cheers

Paully

[iandouglas]

DOG FISH (Lesser Spotted)
Scavenger of the sea bed. Will eat just about anything it finds. LSD's tend to find food by smell. Can be found in all types of seabed.
skin it dry the skin you then have a very good sandpaper.

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by iandouglas

DOG FISH (Lesser Spotted)
Scavenger of the sea bed. Will eat just about anything it finds. LSD's tend to find food by smell. Can be found in all types of seabed.
skin it dry the skin you then have a very good sandpaper.

No I know what THAT fish is Ian, I only posted the pic to show it was similar.

This one was 40 miles from the sea up the river........so I'm assuming it wasn't a dogfish.....are there any catfish that conform to the descritpion I gave above?