

The size of the hook to choose depends in the first place on the size of the fish that you intend to catch with it. Cheap hooks will most likely turn out to be of low quality. When choosing a hook, pay attention to its price and manufacturer. I also have a 1.6kg roach from mosquito from a size 13 hook. You can either go by random guesses or info from the devs. Common roach reaches the length of 30 cm.Ĭopy and pasted directly from the user guide provided from the devs on this forum. Roach can be recognized by its eyes as there is a characteristic red spot in the upper part of its iris. Dorsal and caudal fins are greenish gray with shade of red, pelvic and anal fins are red. Its grayish black dorsal surface shimmers with blue and green tinge, the rest of the body is silvery white. Roach’s body is elongated and moderately flattened along flanks. Large roach may feed on larvae and tadpoles.


It feeds mainly on algae, green plants, insect larvae, mollusks and other invertebrates. It prefers warm and quiet water bodies with sandy bottoms and aquatic plants. Common roach occurs in small rivers and brooks as well as in big rivers, lakes and reservoirs. There are numerous subspecies of roach, differing in their life cycle, among which there are non-migrating forms (common roach and Rutilus rutilus lacustris, known in Russia as Siberian roach) as well as semi-diadromous ones (e.g. It lives in Siberian rivers and lakes, in the basins of the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. It is widespread in fresh and brackish waterbodies in Europe and Northern Asia. The Common Roach is a genus of the Cyprinidae family.
