noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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Jackie Whites for chub from the blockhouse, with one or two good roach bags around the outfall.
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Crane for plenty of small fish from the bottom end, and some good nets of roach from the Ashtip Field.
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Swineford second field producing chub and a few good roach .
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Kelston for good nets of roach , chub, perch and odd bream from pegs below the weir.
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Dorset Stour. Good bags of roach , bream and chub throughout.
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Downstream, the Bartensham section is turning up some good roach .
small
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Slow, even before ice, with small roach and perch.
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He pole fished pinkies at eight metres for a dozen small roach to 5 oz.
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Leeds were given the fish by a benefactor, their task was to remove the many small roach and skimmer bream.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dace and roach on the Salmon Hall stretch but chub main target to big baits.
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He caught a good couple of pounds of roach on ledgered casters from bites that were all but invisible.
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He was like a roach , could melt into the cracked recesses of the tenements all around.
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Quality roach boosting returns in Chester, legered bronze maggot best.
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Skimmers, roach and small perch from most Liverpool sections but pike active.
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Swineford second field producing chub and a few good roach .
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To them, roach spray may simply carry a nasty odor.