Having the patience to feed your target fish, allowing them to lose their natural caution and feed confidently, can swing the odds of capture massively in your favour, as Paul Brooks proved with this gorgeous 3lb 1oz rudd. He’d located a group of good fish on a Fenland river and… Read more

There are few things in fishing that gets the heart racing, like watching a big fish edge closer to your hookbait, just as Aaron Marguet experienced when he watched this 3lb 1oz rudd inhale his float fished boilie! He’d dropped onto a gravel pit and managed to locate a small… Read more

Paul Brooks was another angler getting himself in on the big rudd action at the start of the season, as he banked himself this stunning 3lb 3oz specimen. He told us “I was out early in the morning and found a few good fish, but they weren’t interested in my… Read more

The biggest reported rudd of the season has been caught by Ryszard Warman, who landed this exceptional 3lb 14oz specimen. “I fished a swim I’d pre-baited twice in the week, and it was evident there were fish present when I arrived,” he told us. “Using slow-sinking bread flake below a… Read more

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… Read more

Sam Smith’s River campaign kicked-off in style after he landed this lovely rudd of 3lb 3oz, plus further fish of 2lb 14oz, 2lb 9oz, and 2lb exactly. The Norfolk-based painter had the trio of ‘twos’ in the morning, but after that, he says the river ‘went dead’. But he fished… Read more