Greatest ever winter rudd haul topped by brace of mid twos - Andy Waters

“With work finished for the day I raced down to a Fenland river to fish a deep
spot that I’d caught a 3lb rudd from a few years ago.
“After getting into position I cast out a cage feeder filled with liquidised bread with a piece of flake on the hook and began introducing small balls of loose feed by hand.
“By casting every five minutes or so I was able to build up a pretty big area of feed that I’d hope would be enough to draw the rudd’s attention. As it turned out they absolutely loved it and the more I fed the more bites I seemed to get!
“I’d already had a couple of fish when I had another sharp whack on the tip and struck into a hard-fighting rudd, which I needed to bully away from the shoal and into the net as quickly as possible to avoid spooking the rest.
“If they do get into the shoal it’s pretty much game over.
“At 2lb 11oz it was the largest of four over 2lb that I caught in four hours, with the others going 2lb, 2lb 6oz and 2lb 9oz.
“It was my greatest ever winter rudd session but I reckon I could have kept catching had I not ran out of bait!”