Dunno Billy: photo not good enough for me to say what they are. Chub are showing themselves in the Goyt and Tame at the moment though. So chub maybe?
Possible I suppose that the kids have transferred the odd carp from that little pond just off that industrial estate up from the weir. They have, it is rumoured, also put some into the new Gosjacs water.

Also there are definitely good numbers of carp in the Mersey down Warrington way, and it seems highly likely that a few have "accidentally" found their way into the river near Sale Water Park.

I have actually seen one carp in the Tame...so why not elsewhere?