Ruffe ( Gymnocephalus cernuus )

Family Perch Percidae

Size 12" ( 30 cm )

AKA Pope

Description

Two Dorsals joined together the first with 11 - 16 spiny rays

Diet

Feeds on the bottom mainly on burrowing insect larvae and worms and will predate on fry of other fish.

Habitat

Abundant in in low land lakes and slow flowing rivers . Native to ontinental Europe and Eastern England