 Catching a ruffe ! |
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 Oct 25 2004, 11:53 PM
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Now I know this will sound silly to some people, but I've never caught a ruffe, but have been told that there are a few in the Chelmer and Blackwater canal.
So. always being one to try something new, and the fact that I have to walk about half a mile along the canal to reach my favourite chub swim, I thought I'd have a go at catching one! What sort of swim would I look to catch one in? My first thought is to find a "perchy" looking swim and try some maggots or a small worm there, but always open to advice! Mat -------------------- Mat
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Oct 25 2004, 11:56 PM
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Best way I know to catch ruffe is to fish for pike. Use a five inch plug, this guarantees that a four inch ruffe will be caught.
-------------------- PETER
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Oct 26 2004, 12:17 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 1,341 Joined: 27-February 03 From: Southend on Sea Member No.: 3,499 |
That will certainly be tried at some point, I had the same stretch of canal in mind for some winter piking as there are a couple of nice looking pedunkle ambush points long there where the Chelmer and the canal meet and seperate.
I'm just waiting for the first frosts to kill of some of the weed! Mat -------------------- Mat
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Oct 26 2004, 01:16 AM
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Blimey,havn't caught a daddy ruffe(pope) for donkey's tears---Thank god
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Oct 26 2004, 02:30 AM
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Try a small worm. Ruffe are pretty lazy and don't move much, so you may not even see the bite. i pick a few up on the Medway, when Chubbing with big lobworms. All I see is a slight knock on the tip, usually a very quick flick.
-------------------- Dunk Fairley
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Oct 26 2004, 04:02 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 1,367 Joined: 11-June 00 From: Farnham Surrey Member No.: 184 |
I caught my first one this year at a local pond, then I had a second one last month. One on maggott and one on worm.
I wasn't fishing for them as I did not know there was any in there. I was well pleased with the little chappies though  lyn |
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Oct 26 2004, 04:03 AM
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My son caught a whopper on our local canal, but not knowing what it was and thinking it to be a deformed perch hybrid returned it without a thought.
He caught it on the near shelf using maggot fished on the drop with an insert waggler. I have spent hours fishing the same swim just hoping that it may still be there... no luck yet. -------------------- Our perception of time as an orderly sequence of regular ticks and tocks has no relevance here in the alternative dimension that is fishing....... C.Yates
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Oct 26 2004, 04:16 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 11,426 Joined: 26-September 00 From: East Anglia/Norfolk Broads Member No.: 364 |
QUOTE Dunk Fairley: The beggers that take my lures aren't particularly lazy!Ruffe are pretty lazy and don't move much But strangely I have never caught a ruff on a lure on a still water, only on rivers. -------------------- PETER
http://www.charliecarp.com/environment.htm Say 'yes dear' and be accused of being indecisive, be decisive and be accused of not saying 'yes dear'! Us men can never win. |
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Oct 26 2004, 04:25 AM
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Personally I would try Loch Lomond if I wanted a Ruffe (not that I would). Apparently it's the commonest fish in the big water, even though I've never seen or caught one, no one I know has seen or caught one and no Piker (the chaps apparently responsible for putting them there) I've seen has them for baits either.
I reckon Lomond has more Burbot in it. Let's put it that way. -------------------- "I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do. I envy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do"
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Oct 26 2004, 01:20 PM
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I caught one in Loch Lomand at Easter with the spinning rod newt gave me
liam |
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