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Hi

 

I promise never to use this forum as a means to promote my blog (no bugger reads it anyway), but I did think that this might make you laugh. It makes me laugh - albeit slightly hysterically.

 

http://gardeningboots.wordpress.com/2011/0...ith-the-smooth/

 

On the plus side - I've never caught a ruffe before.

 

And why are they also called a Pope?

 

Cx

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And why are they also called a Pope?

 

 

Fifty years ago, if you used maggot on almost any of the middle and lower stretches of my local rivers, you got pestered with ruffe.

 

Nowadays, they seem rather scarce. In fact, when I wanted one as part of an annual species hunt, I had to work pretty hard to get it.

 

Don't know for sure why they are called Pope, but there was a rather cruel practice in early Victorian times called "Corking the Pope" in which a cork was impaled on the dorsal fin of a Ruffe, and then it was set adrift, so it was trapped at the surface and eventually provided a meal for a pike - so there might have been some religious bigotry at the back of it.

 

...and yes your blog did raise a smile here.

 

 

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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Fifty years ago, if you used maggot on almost any of the middle and lower stretches of my local rivers, you got pestered with ruffe.

 

Nowadays, they seem rather scarce. In fact, when I wanted one as part of an annual species hunt, I had to work pretty hard to get it.

 

Don't know for sure why they are called Pope, but there was a rather cruel practice in early Victorian times called "Corking the Pope" in which a cork was impaled on the dorsal fin of a Ruffe, and then it was set adrift, so it was trapped at the surface and eventually provided a meal for a pike - so there might have been some religious bigotry at the back of it.

 

...and yes your blog did raise a smile here.

 

Thanks for the information vagabond - much appreciated - I love gen like that.

 

Glad you had a smile - not enough of it in the world

 

(now I sound like Ken Dodd)

 

C

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I have been surprised by the amount of Ruff I have caught recently on the Lea as it had been years since I caught one. No doubt at some point I will get tired of catching them but at the moment it's rather exciting when I catch one.

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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I have been surprised by the amount of Ruff I have caught recently on the Lea as it had been years since I caught one. No doubt at some point I will get tired of catching them but at the moment it's rather exciting when I catch one.

 

Guys,

 

We have a lot of Ruffs in our lakes and small rivers. They can help Anglers to win winter competition in Russia because the score is kept in pieces of fish.

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I have been surprised by the amount of Ruff I have caught recently on the Lea as it had been years since I caught one. No doubt at some point I will get tired of catching them but at the moment it's rather exciting when I catch one.

 

I was actually quite pleased at the ruffe - never caught one before, more of a stillwaters person - but this is, I'm afraid, just looking like bullsh*t from a saddo in the face of such a whopping perch caught by a 7 year old.

 

It's a bit like the Sorceror's Apprentice - but in reverse.

 

Cx

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