Bob Nudd

Last updated

Robert James "Bob" Nudd MBE (born 1944, in Chelmsford, Essex) [1] was the first angler to win four individual World Freshwater Angling Championships; in 1990, 1991, 1994, and 1999. [2]

About

Nudd represented the England team at the international level for more than 24 years, during which time he became arguably the best known angler in the world. The highlight of his professional career was a victory in front of a home crowd at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, in 1994. [3] He has been individual World Champion on a record 4 occasions, making him the most successful international angler ever at the time, later surpassed by England teammate Alan Scotthorne. [2] Nudd's world titles were won at the following tournaments:

In 1991, he received the most votes ever in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award but was denied victory by the BBC, who ruled that a campaign to vote for him in the weekly fishing newspaper Angling Times was against competition rules. [4] He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to coarse fishing in the 1995 Birthday Honours. [4] [5]

Nudd lives in Cambridgeshire, England, and writes monthly for Coarse Fishing Answers and Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine. He is still known as one of Britain's greatest anglers along with John Wilson, Dave Harrel and Richard Walker. Nudd presented a new TV series for Discovery Shed in March 2009. [6]

He features in a Masters of Angling DVD, offering professional techniques in angling. His DVDs include Commercial carp tactics, Paste on the pole, Surface fishing with controller floats, Pole secrets and Expert fishing on the Pole.[ citation needed ]

Nudd is still a keen match fisherman at local level (2021), winning the Diss and District Angling Club Mere Masters semi-final at the age of 76. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holme Pierrepont</span> Hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Holme Pierrepont is a hamlet and civil parish located 5 miles (8 km) south-east of the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It is in the Gamston ward of the Rushcliffe local authority in the East Midlands region. The population of the civil parish as at the 2011 Census was 528.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Walker (angler)</span>

Richard Stuart Walker was an English angler.

John Dennis Wilson was a British angler who had been involved with angling television production for over twenty years featuring on Channel 4 Television and more recently on the digital TV channel, Discovery Real Time. Wilson was voted 'The Greatest Angler of all Time' in a 2004 poll by readers of the Angling Times Newspaper.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Coarse fishing</span> Type of freshwater angling in the United Kingdom and Ireland

In Britain and Ireland, coarse fishing refers to angling for rough fish, which are fish species traditionally considered undesirable as a food or game fish. Freshwater game fish are all salmonids — most particularly salmon, trout and char — so generally coarse fish are freshwater fish that are not salmonids. There is disagreement over whether grayling should be classified as a game fish or a coarse fish.

South Nottinghamshire Academy is a mixed-sex secondary school with academy status located in the village of Radcliffe-on-Trent, in Nottinghamshire, England. The school intake covers pupils from ages 11 to 18, with the upper two years being catered for in the integrated sixth form centre.

Matthew Hayes is a British angler who is featured in televised angling shows on Discovery Real Time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bibliography of fly fishing</span>

This general annotated bibliography page provides an overview of notable and not so notable works in the English language regarding the sport of fly fishing, listed by year of first publication. Although not all the listed books are devoted exclusively to fly fishing, all these titles contain significant fly fishing content. The focus of the present page is on classic general texts on fly fishing and its history, together with notable public or university library collections dedicated to fly fishing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holme Pierrepont Hall</span> Grade I listed house in Nottingham, UK

Holme Pierrepont Hall is a medieval Manor House in Holme Pierrepont near Nottingham. It is a Grade I listed building.

<i>A Book on Angling</i>

A Book on AnglingBeing a complete treatise on the art of angling in every branch is a work of angling literature with significant fly fishing content written by Francis Francis, angling editor to The Field and published in London in 1867 by Longmans, Green and Company.

Clive Branson is a Welsh angler who won the individual World Freshwater Angling Championships in 1987 after being runner-up in 1986, and team bronze medalist for Wales in 1981.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Baillie</span>

Timothy Mark Baillie MBE is a Scottish slalom canoeist who represented Britain. From Westhill in Aberdeenshire, he started competing at the international level in 1996, initially in the K1 category, but switching to C2 in 2003. He retired from the sport in 2013. He is the Olympic Champion in the C2 event from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Etienne Stott</span> Olympic canoeist

Etienne Stott MBE is an English slalom canoeist who started competing at the international level in 2002, initially in the K1 category, but switching to C2 in 2005. He retired from the sport in 2016. He is the Olympic Champion in the C2 event from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

<i>Anglers Mail</i>

Angler's Mail was a weekly angling magazine published in London, UK, by Future plc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bibliography of fly fishing (species related)</span>

This annotated bibliography is intended to list both notable and not so notable works of English language, non-fiction and fiction related to the sport of fly fishing listed by year published. Although 100% of any book listed is not necessarily devoted to fly fishing, all these titles have significant fly fishing content. Included in this bibliography is a list of species related fly fishing literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bibliography of fly fishing (fly tying, stories, fiction)</span>

This annotated bibliography is intended to list both notable and not so notable works of English language, non-fiction and fiction related to the sport of fly fishing listed by year published. Although 100% of any book listed is not necessarily devoted to fly fishing, all these titles have significant fly fishing content. Included in this bibliography is a list of fly tying, fly tackle, regional guides, memoirs, stories and fly fishing fiction related literature.

Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association abbreviated NCRA is a rowing club based at the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre in Nottingham.

The World Freshwater Angling Championships is a freshwater angling competition. Participating countries fish in teams of five with titles awarded to the team with the least amount of points, the competition area is split into sections and the winner with the most weight will be awarded one point, two for second, three for third, at the end of the two days the team with the least points is the top team. Since its inception in 1954, the competition has been staged on rivers, canals and still waters from a selected host nation. Currently, the world championships have not been held outside of Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angling records in the United Kingdom</span>

This is an impartial and comprehensive record list of 294 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 59 different species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. Records to include the angler, species, weight, date, venue, also referenced with a recognizable publication. The list is intended to include all categories of fish caught by anglers, that enter freshwater including and some migratory sea fish. The time since last record fish was caught is 207 days.

Alan Scotthorne is the first angler to win five individual World Freshwater Angling Championships,, has won the team world championships with England on eight occasions between 1994 and 2013, making him the most successful international angler in history.

The Angling Trust, based at Leominster, Herefordshire, is an organisation formed from the merger of six angling authorities to form a single and more powerful non-profit organisation for the benefit of anglers. The body oversees the development of angling for three disciplines — coarse, sea, and game fishing. The Angling Trust was set up to promote anglers' rights, fish conservation, preservation of habitat and fish and angler welfare.

References

  1. "About Bob Nudd". Bob Nudd official website. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "World Angling Championships Tables since 1954". Clive Branson (World Champion 1987)for Angling News. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Holme Pierrepont's 20th Anniversary". drennantackle.com. 5 September 2014.
  4. 1 2 White, Jim (2 June 2020). "Angling world champion Bob Nudd relishes return to the water". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020.
  5. The United Kingdom: "No. 54066". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 16 June 1995. p. 22.
  6. "Discovery Shed - World champion angler Bob Nudd gives weary City boys fishing tips on the pond at Victoria Park, East London". flickr.com/Discovery Shed. 20 March 2009.
  7. "Four-time world champion angler Bob Nudd MBE cruises into final of Mere Masters event in Diss". dissexpress.co.uk. 23 April 2021.