After landing this huge new PB rudd from a Fenland river last week, Andy Waters said that he was ‘smiling all the way’ on his 90-mile drive home to Suffolk.
The day hadn’t got off to the best start for Andy as, on arrival at the venue, he was greeted by a river that the weed cutters had recently gone through. This made his trotting approach challenging, due to the amount of floating debris on the water.
With little in the way of fish showing, he fired out small chunks of bread to try and locate them, and eventually saw a couple of good surface swirls.
After casting out, Andy trotted his bread down as far he dared before seeing a big swirl as his hookbait was taken. He struck into what was clearly a good fish, which thumped violently in the steady flow and held deep as it tried to shed the hook in the weeds.
When it finally surfaced, Andy’s legs went to jelly, but he kept his cool and landed his prize safely.
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