Donal Hickey: Delight at rare sight of gudgeon

Little fish with a French name turns up on riverbank

Every angler remembers the day they caught their first trout. But not many can tell when they hooked their first gudgeon: chances are they never landed this little fish with the French name.

It’s only natural then there should be delight at the sighting of a species not seen that often in our rivers in a half-century. Maybe the presence of gudgeon is the result of conservation work in recent years.