Bob Nudd was the first English angler to win four individual world angling championships:
- 1990 (Yugoslavia),
- 1991 (Hungary),
- 1994 (England)
- 1999 (Spain).
Nudd represented the England team at 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 victory in front of a home crowd at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, in 1994. 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.
He has an MBE for services to fishing.
Bob lives in Cambridgeshire, England, and writes monthly for Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine.