4lb Lake rudd on popped-up corn

SPECIALIST Oli Langford had the shock of his life when this cracking 4lb rudd slid over his net during the early hours of the morning. 

Oil was putting in a quick overnighter on a local Cambridge lake when the
fish took a single grain of popped-up corn fished on a size 5 Curve Medium hook.

“I assumed it was a bream, as there are plenty here,” Oli said.

“But as it came in to the bank my friend netted it for me and told me what he had just seen.

“Once I saw the rudd myself I was made up. It was easily my biggest ever.”