Something fishy going on here...

Scotty #

I've been observing this behaviour on the local river the last few evening. It could be going on all day but I'm only there in the evening. It's only happening in the same 20m stretch, doesn't seem to be moving up nor down stream.

A couple of people have suggested to me it's Salmon 'smolts', juvenile Salmon gathering to go to sea. But, they look more like Perch or Roach to me. I thought it was maybe some kind of mass spawning going on but they don't look like adult fish.

Any thoughts?

https://streamable.com/u3p0s9

New Home

A school of fish at recess? 😋

New Home

Seriously, though - if it only goes on at certain times of the day (or the evening), could it be that there are swarms of midges flying overhead and that the fish are catching them?

whelzer

This is we we trout anglers call "a rise", fish are rising to either hatching or dying aquatic insects. River looks fairly still and its evening time so I would guess some sort of midge. They could be trout or smolts or even course fish like roach, dace, unlikely to be perch.

Jim_Hodge

It's smolts rising to evening midges above a pool.