The Warwickshire Avon is in stunning form this season, with the barbel record for the venue just being smashed by this enormous 19lb 4oz fish. It was landed by Dave Thornley, a man that doesn’t do much barbel fishing as he spends the little time he gets on the bank… Read more

Finding the Dorset Stour running high and coloured after heavy rain, Ben Fairweather was confident the river’s barbel would be feeding. He settled into a swim with a large near side slack and used two rods with matching hookbaits. These were 14mm fishmeal boilies, wrapped in Ben’s homemade paste and… Read more

Having started fishing the Trent over a year ago, Dean Bradshaw has had some great results with the venue’s barbel, but none better than this 18lb 4oz fish. He was fishing a double 12mm boilie hookbait when he had a screaming take early in the morning, and he picked up… Read more

The River Anker may not be the most famous barbel venue in the world, but it certainly holds some specimen fish, such as this 16lb 6oz specimen landed by Roger O’Malley. It’s believed to be a new record for the Staffordshire venue, that’s a tributary to the River Tame, a… Read more

As anglers, we often try and save a bit of our annual leave for a fishing trip, and that’s exactly what Darren Hughes did, using a week off wisely and landing a trio of big Hampshire Avon doubles. He spent time baiting a few swims and kicked things off with… Read more

Whilst the north of England isn’t famed in specimen angling circles for big barbel, the rivers of Yorkshire have produced some phenomenal fish in recent seasons, with this 15lb 7oz barbel one of the largest ever caught in the county. It was landed by Site Manager, Chris Carlyle from a… Read more