Gudgeon on the Fly

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Have any of you guys ever caught a gudgeon on a fly. This one was caught by my son for a £5 bet. It took him nearly 2 hours and several patterns to entice the critter from a visible gravel beb we were anchored over. After several takes and one or two perch he nailed one of them. What lenghts some folk go to just to catch a tiddler!Image
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Never heard of one before, might be a first.
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Top dangling!!!
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And on a homemade buzzer too if I'm any judge! Nice one. :hat:


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That's what I call determination!
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Very unusual. Is it possible that it thought the fly was a dead maggot or small worm?
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I can see a new craze starting in the summer - gudgeon fly matches. Great fun I expect.

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Had a bleak on a beachcaster once. And a carp on a car aerial.

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MaggotDrowner wrote:Very unusual. Is it possible that it thought the fly was a dead maggot or small worm?
Hi MaggotDrowner, :Hat:
..... a bloodworm probably, by the looks of that fly.

Very "nifty" bit of angling, I must say ..... well done!

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You had to be there MD. It was a real pain watching him with his steely determination to catch a gudgeon on a fly.
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