Stroom vis/River fish ???

[Rorke]

Hi, I've noticed now some of the older anglers talk about a stroomvis or a river fish in the northern tributaries of the vaal, its apparently silver and grows to about 300mm, so I'm thinking a moggel, but apparently its not because they speak of a moggel and a mudfish and a yellowfish and 300mm is to big for a barb/ghielemientjie so who knows what the correct name for this fish is?

 

[mrcricket]

Good question,I wonder if that wasnt referring to Silverfish. Some say they’re juvenile largemouth yellows. Others say its a different species.
I remember catching silverfish as a kid in the vaal. No idea if these fish are still around? With the amount of pollution in that river I’m surprised that anything survives in there.

 

[Rorke]

Yea it must be a misidentification somehow. I have a feeling its a moggel because not a lot of anglers have caught moggel so most expect a mudfish looking fish because they've never seen a moggel in real life (since reports of "river fish" mostly predate the internet era, so the fish couldn't just be googled like today.) Only other fish fitting the description is a papermouth. But they don't occur in the vaal-orange system so highly unlikely