Early each season, anglers head east to the UK’s flatlands to target specimen rudd on countless miles of fenland river and drain. Whilst a few good ones are usually reported, it had been an extraordinary start, with a pile of three-pounders banked.
Arguably the most impressive catch was taken by Norfolk angler, Stephen Gibbons, who had one of the all-time-great hauls of big rudd, including a fish of 3lb 5oz plus 22 others over 2lb. “I started early in the morning fishing both floating and sinking bread on the waggler and caught four ‘twos’,” he told us. “When they stopped showing, I switched to a Method feeder with a pineapple pop-up hookbait fished a foot off the bottom, and the bites kept coming!” Stephen fed tiger nut groundbait and liquidised bread to create a cloud of feed. “I had a the ‘three’ on the Method before switching back to the waggler and taking another four two-pounders.”
Well done Steven!