Canal Mini Species: Chasing Scales Species Hunt (EPISODE 13)
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- This week I'm on the Fosse Dyke in Lincoln looking for Ruffe & Gudgeon
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I used to catch Ruffe and Gudgeon alot back when I fished regularly, 20 years ago, and used to think it was a bad day if I'd only caught those fish - so it's great to see you excited about catching these smaller species
Used to catch Ruffe all the time when I was younger. Used to use a hand line in the canal under bridges and either caught eel or Ruffe. Rarely catch either species on the same canal now.
I’ve been struggling a lot lately with work and honestly these little videos really make my day better genuinely
That's lovely to hear you've been enjoying them , a bit of time by the river really sorts me out when things are tough
Love Gonk
I remember when i first caught the Ruffe. It was at night with my dad. I was like “woah that Perch looks weird” my dad was like “nah thats not a Perch thats a Ruffe” that memory sometimes still comes in my mind.
they are fab fish
@@Chasingscalesspecieshunt they really are. I really like how they look. I used to have 2 Ruffe in my native aquarium a few years ago but i had release them.
I had one with some perch but the perch always got to the food first
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@@Chasingscalesspecieshunt i see. I’ve had Perch mixed with Ruffe for a long time and it always went well with feeding. The Ruffe always got food.
When I was a teenager back in the late 80's, I used to walk along and occasionally fish on the river Darent in Kent which is a crystal clear chalk stream. There was a deeper spot where you could see all the small species, dace chublets , brown trout, minnows, bleak, perch, roach, bullhead and gudgeon. This particular day there was a gudgeon of such magnitude, I thought it was a tiny pike initially . I'm convinced it was a British record and returned the following day to try to catch it, but sadly I never saw it again .
monster gudgeon are a dream for many anglers would love to see a big one
It's great to see your enjoyment of catching these small but important fish. Many matches have been won with a 5lb bag of gudgeon or ruffe! Lol..
When I was a lad, many, many moons ago, we used to catch ruffe, bullhead, and small perch from the middle Thames.
We used to call ruffe pope. Not heard so much nowadays.
Great content and smooth delivery. Keep the films coming.
thanks appreciate that! I do love a ruffe
How about silver bream, spined loach or stone loach? The difficult part is finding waters that hold them.
I did silver bream in previous epsiode but the loach would be good to target for sure
@@Chasingscalesspecieshunt I once caught a stone loach in the early 1980s (Yorkshire Derwent, a mile downstream of Stamford Bridge), but that is the only one I have ever seen. From the same stretch of the Derwent (probably the same year, also in spring), I caught a lamprey which appeared to have taken the maggot bait in a conventional manner (ie not foul hooked). About 3 years later, there was a report from a club match on the same stretch of river of the capture of a burbot, which "escaped through a hole in a keepnet". As it was only about 15 years after the last recorded UK burbot, I would love to think that it was, but I suspect it was a loach or a lamprey.
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I do lots of fishing challenges, a 10lb canal Zander took me 6 years 😂 but I caught a Stoneloach by design much sooner than I thought I would. I fish for gonks and ruffe too, both species seem to be in the same swims year on year. Bullheads seem to be in the tiny streams I fish.
@@portcullis5622 I've had a few stone loach on that length over the years. Also a good spot for bull heads. The escapee burbot wasn't just caught on that stretch. It was also caught near Elvington and on the Kirkham stretch if the stories are to be believed.
most likley in the case of the burbot but certainly in the right river! I think catching a stone loach on rod andl ine would be a challenge to say the least!@@portcullis5622
Watching from Thailand, my mate calls me the gudgeon whisperer :} only ever had 1 ruffe . caught my 1st climbing perch last week over here.
thailand would be epic lots of species to get there!
Admire your enthusiasm and knowledge - I am a big fan of wild mini species compared to stock pellet fed pigs...
I do love the mini species
Me too
Interesting video. Nice fishes. I like the look of Gudgeon, I've never seen a real one )
stunners they are!
having just looked into the lore behind UK largemouth bass, id say try and target one of them! jokes aside i think arctic charr would be awesome
ha it would make a interesting vid for sure. I've got a arctic charr trip planned this year
Kept my first fish as a very small boy; Jack pike a four inch esox . That was it; my entire life from then to my late twenties really was fishkeeping and fishing , but the early years into late teens always included tanks of native fish ( always more pike!) the best was a six foot tank of everything including a two pound tench ; I was still amazed how two small pike could eat all the perch and roach so quickly ….
Anyway raptors and reptiles take up my life now but at icarus falconry where we open to the public from Easter onwards is l still have a tank of sticklebacks and elvers to educate the public on our amazing aquatic life , pop in if you’re ever down this way !
My biggest ever find as a kid in these parts was the spined loach ;’so if you haven’t this is the species for your next video hehe
I also keep native fish (got a couple vids on the channel about them) I'd love a little pike but so hard to find one small enough!
Ido get spined loach locally so will make a vid on them at some point
great video mate. whats the most unexpected species youve caught from a venue while fishing?
i tend to target the weird fish so i generally know they are coming up! I've got a perch fishing vid coming up where I catch something I really wasn't expecting
Have still got your native aquarium would think about add a Ruffe pope to the aquarium It’s ok think of set up native uk aquarium
I am looking for a ruffe or two for it. I have had ruffe in the past they look great
Love a gonk, but then…who doesn’t ?
you should be deported if you don't like them