Thank you to Tottenham’s Andrew Poole for photos of his sensational run of huge Barbel from the River Lea.  Like most of us, Andrew had experienced a disappointing start to the season, but that all changed in mid July when he recorded a new personal best Barbel in three consecutive trips!

The run began when Andrew located a shoal of big fish – getting off the mark with a 14lb 10oz fish.  The following week he was able to find them again in the same area, a frenetic 20-minute battle through a cabbage patch eventually concluding with the capture of the 15lb 5oz fish.

But the best was still to come with a 16lb 7oz monster!  A further trip, in heavy rain, started with Andrew using a 7oz baitdropper to deliver a mix of fishmeal groundbait, pellet and maggot – fishing double 16mm pellet as hookbait on a size 6 Super Specialist Barbel hook.  Andrew had spent extra-time disguising his end tackle (and it plainly paid off) – electing to use a home made rough stone weight & 1.5oz inline back-lead, and an 18 inch fluorocarbon hooklength.
For full details on the hooks used by Andrew for this hat-trick of wary specimens, click here:-
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