“Once it went in the net it really thrashed..”
South Yorkshire angler Joshua Dorka enjoyed some fantastic rudd fishing at the start of the season, landing this lovely 3lb 3oz a specimen and another weighing in at 3lb from a syndicate water.
Fishing a helicopter setup with three dead maggots as bait, both fish gave drop-back bites but gave completely different fights.
“The larger fish came in like a ball of weed, but once it went in the net it really thrashed around. The second, smaller fish fought really well, and I thought it was a tench! For sure one of the hardest fighting rudd I’ve come across. When they get to that size though it’s all irrelevant – they’re such special creatures” he added.