Despite some much-needed rain hitting the UK, the River Trent is still running low, so on a recent trip to the Trent at Gunthorpe, Dave Roberts dropped his hookbait size to catch produced this 17lb 14oz barbel. He presented a 12mm boilie on a size 12 hook to tempt the… Read more

The barbel record on the nation’s most popular river for the species has just been smashed after Neil Wright slipped the net under this specimen of 20lb 13oz. His huge fish tops the river’s previous best of 20lb 6oz, caught back in 2020 by Sew Kowalski, and is a specimen… Read more

Blu Bradley recently enjoyed a session to remember on the Warwickshire Avon, in which he landed eight barbel over two nights, topped by this 16lb 4oz fish. He added two other ‘doubles’, but the sixteen-pounder stole the show for the midlands -based angler, who was fishing the stretch at Manor… Read more

A few years ago, one barbel on the tidal Trent caught Justin Stoddart’s eye, and after years of dreaming about catching the fish, he recently slipped the net under the specimen at a weight of 17lb 9oz and what a photo to match such an impressive specimen. It fell to… Read more

Due to his local rivers running low and clear, Mark Erdwin had been holding back from targeting barbel so far this season. But with recent heavy rain and dropping temperatures, he ventured to the River Loddon and landed this superb 17lb 7oz specimen. It fell to a homemade dumbbell boilie,… Read more

Having enjoyed the session of a lifetime on the River Lea, Julian Barnes didn’t wait long before going one better, this time landing a 19lb 8oz barbel alongside others of 17lb 10oz and 13lb 1oz. The nineteen-pounder is the biggest reported so far this season and follows hot on the… Read more