After reading all the posts from Skateboard Dave, thought I would take a picture of the rudd that I seem constantly to catch whilst trout fishing. They seem to have a great love of small dry flies, especially klinkhamers, though they seem to be able to spit them out as quite as they take them. At times they even jump in front of the trout to "nick" the fly before the trout can get it.
I have seen quite a few chub, probably around the 3 to 4lb mark, so when the coarse season opens hope to target these.

It looks though you have encountered a Dace, those fish are lightning fast in spitting out flies.

I would agree, but need to see the anal fin better to confirm otherwise it might be a small Chub, but the generally don't spit the fly!

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Alan

It could indeed be a small chub, if I look at the fins
I woud say chub.


Dace


Chub

Sorry the other reader was right, thats a Dace! and a very good one at that, now I am jealous - the anal fin is slightly concave, had it been a Chub the fin would have been convex, ie rounded.

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Alan

nice fish well done, this is a rudd i caught last week.



caught on size 20 hook.

my friend caught a small pike and a small perch on a fly here they are but i should not of held them like this but sorry if anybody is offended sorry but this is nothing to do with rudd

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David (little machin)

You are being sarcastic, right?
Dace of that size are very common, least on the rivers I fish. I've got 2 stuffed ones from the Thames(90 years old) which are about 14oz each...they are big dace.
I'm not 100% the fish is a dace though, looks like a small chub(mouth looks pretty big) but probably a dace especially in view of the "lightning takes".
Dee

No I am not being Sarcastic?? I live in Kent which has very few waters that hold Dace! Indeed its been many years since I actually caught one locally and the fish in the pic, would have been a speci? so yes I am jealous of anyone that has fish of that quality to go for.

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Alan

Alan, if ever you are up this way look me up.
Free fishing up here with plenty of dace...but you'd end up going for the chub instead. I had 2 the other night fishing big mudler skulpins for trout. down and across style at the end of a pool, biggest around 4lb. The guy I was with was casting upstream "blind" and took 8 up to 3.5lb, no trout though...they are in there but there are so many chub it makes it even harder.
Dee