home

Scardinius erythrophthalmus - Rudd

Phylum: Chordata - Class: Actinopterygii - Order: Cypriniformes - Family: Cyprinidae

A pair of Rudd

Rudd are found in lakes and canals throughout Wales and in some of the slow-flowing rivers on the eastern side of Wales.

These attractive shoal fish thrive in lowland lakes with rich vegetation and plenty of invertebrate life forms. In summer, Rudd rise to take small insects from the surface, and they can sometimes be caught using dry fly tactics.

A Rudd

The bright red fins of Rudd are helpful distinguishing features, but definite identification is made difficult because rudd can hybridise with roach, bream and dace.

A Rudd of two pounds is a specimen fish, although they can grow quite a lot bigger in ideal conditions.

Rudd are very variable in appearance

The British rod-caught record Rudd, landed from a lake in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 2001, weighed a massive 4 lb 10 oz (2.1kg). The captor was Mr Simon Parry.


Excited at the prospect of flyfishing? So are we, and we're pretty sure you would find the Winding River Mystery trilogy of action-packed thrillers gripping reading too. Dead Drift, Dead Cert, and Dead End are Pat O'Reilly's latest river-and-flyfishing based novels, and now they are available in ebook format. Full details on our website here...

Buy each book for just £4.96 on Amazon...


Please Help Us: If you have found this information interesting and useful, please consider helping to keep First Nature online by making a small donation towards the web hosting and internet costs.

Any donations over and above the essential running costs will help support the conservation work of Plantlife, the Rivers Trust and charitable botanic gardens - as do author royalties and publisher proceeds from books by Pat and Sue.

© 1995 - 2024 First Nature: a not-for-profit volunteer-run resource

Please help to keep this free resource online...

Terms of use - Privacy policy - Disable cookies - Links policy