i need to identify two canal fish

[sk8alotjohn]

http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.jsp?Memb...toId=9025178210

ok so the first fish i have a picture for , can any body tell me wot this is, i cort it from a canal,

click the link above to view picture.

 

and the second is also from the same canal, but i dont have a picture, my friends call it a "daddy ruff"

but i cant find anything on the nest with that name, so ill describe it, it looks just like a perch, ecept no stripes, instead of stripes it has spots, and the fish it brown not green,

 

please can u help me , look forward to the replys, john

[Rob Ward]

The first one looks like a Bullhead.

 

Second one will be a 'Ruffe' someties called Daddy Ruffe or Poppy Ruffe, lovely little things and unfortunately I've not seen one in years.

[Steve Walker]

Ruffe? Lovely? You've obviously never had to remove the chewed up remains of one from a survey net after an eel has chewed it into spiky mush. 'orrible things.

 

[WickerDave]

Lots of pictures in Google images...

 

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&am...=4&oq=ruffe

http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&am...mp;aq=f&oq=

[Vagabond]

"daddy ruff" but i cant find anything on the nest with that name

 

Could have been Roger the Lodger

 

But seriously, Liggie=Bullhead=Miller's Thumb and Ruffe=Tommy=Pope are the two fish you had,

 

welcome to AN.

[SPSwallow]

Ruffe? Lovely? You've obviously never had to remove the chewed up remains of one from a survey net after an eel has chewed it into spiky mush. 'orrible things.

 

 

I've caught quite a few Ruffes on the broads

[BoldBear]

As Vagabond and the others have already said the first fish is a Bullhead or Miller's Thumb (Cottus gobio).

The second fish sounds like a Ruffe or Pope (Gymnocephalus cernuus)

 

welcome to AnglersNet

[sk8alotjohn]

thanks guys, cleard that up for me, and thanks for the welcum to this site.

[sk8alotjohn]

As Vagabond and the others have already said the first fish is a Bullhead or Miller's Thumb (Cottus gobio).

The second fish sounds like a Ruffe or Pope (Gymnocephalus cernuus)

 

welcome to AnglersNet

 

Ok thanks guys, according to some pages on google both these species are endangered. any body els heard this

[Vagabond]

Ok thanks guys, according to some pages on google both these species are endangered. any body els heard this

 

 

I think to the arm-chair naturalist EVERY species is "endangered"

 

Get out there and observe and fish (as you have done) and you soon see a different story.

 

Ruffe aren't as common as they were, but look in the right habitats and there are millions of bullheads.