WEDNESDAY25th October 2000

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You know the bloke I mean. The one who turns up for an hour or two, knocks out more fish than you’ve had in a week and then buggers off! Every venue has one and they can be very annoying, particularly if they are cocky with it! Most of the time though there is no…

Doh! Frustration! You see, I just spent the best part of two hours (alright, ten minutes) writing this piece only to lose it in a hard disk crash. And no, actually, cleverdick, I had not yet gotten around to saving it, let alone backing it up. Besides, as everybody knows very well, back-ups are for…

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Presuming that you have found the fish then big rudd aren’t particularly difficult to catch. In all, there are four tactics which I commonly use for them, some pretty much text book stuff, others a little different. Never follow one method slavishly, each is designed to catch fish in certain circumstances and only those circumstances….