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See the fishing tripsThe Dace Fish
June to March
15 cm
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The Dace fish belongs to the Cyprinidae Family. The current size of the dace fish varies between 15 and 20 cm and weighs between 100 and 200 g. However, it can reach a maximum size of 40 cm for a weight of about 1 kg. The life span is usually 10 to 12 years, but it can reach 15 years. The breeding period is from March-April to May-June, depending on latitude. The female's fertility rate is 8,000 to 10,000 oocytes. The daceâs fishing season is open from June to March.
This fish has a slender and streamlined body. The head is conical with a small and slightly split mouth, slightly inferior. The eyes are bordered with yellow. Fins are well developed. The caudal is indented, the dorsal fin is grey with 10-11 rays, located in the middle of the back. Pelvic bones are yellow with a concave posterior edge, anal and pectoral fins yellowish to orange. This species is suitable for rapid swimming in rough water. The scales are large (47 to 55 along the lateral line), silver-colored on the sides, greyer and greener dorsally, and white ventrally.
The Dace Fish lifestyle
It is a very active fish with a very varied diet. It consists of aquatic insects (caught when they hatch and drift) or not (under trees, when they fall in the wind), as well as mollusks, worms, crustaceans, various larvae, taken from the bottom. It can also consume filamentous algae and moss.
It takes place in March-April, when the water reaches a temperature of 10°C.
In the dace groups, males are distinguished by their bridal tubers or wedding buds on the body. Males and females look for spawning areas on clean gravel pits in a steady stream. Egg laying is collective and takes place at night on the floors. Once fertilized, the yellowish eggs swell and stick to the gravel at the bottom, about 10,000 eggs per female. Incubation depends on temperature and lasts about a month at 12°C. Hatching larvae (size 7.5 mm) move to the shoreline to develop and feed on micro-invertebrates, then become very active fry in schools. Juveniles grow rapidly: they reach 7 to 8 cm in one year.
The Dace fish habitat
In summer, this species prefers the white water of cobble and gravel rivers downstream of the riffles (natural sills where the water is shallow), along the wooded banks. In winter, it prefers deep pools, eddies, underberries and congested areas where it can take refuge.
In Europe, it is more abundant in the north and east; absent in Norway, Scotland, and eastern Ireland. It is rarer in the south, and even absent in the south of the Pyrenees.
The Dace fish Angling
A suspicious fish, you have to use a very fine line. It is fished with natural insects or artificial flies. Fly fishing is the most common technique used to fish for dace.
It can be fished from June to March.
