Over the last few years Pat Dower have been trying to focus on the better quality fish with barbel getting the most attention from him, he has been catching decent numbers of fish up to mid doubles, reasonably consistently from a variety of stretches of river, but the really big… Read more
Paul Allen has been putting the hours in on the Hampshire Avon and in early September, was rewarded with a new pb barbel weighing in at 15lb 5oz. “With the rivers on the rise, conditions were perfect so I headed back and fished a slack area just off the main… Read more
Matt Atkins targeted some slack stretches of the Hampshire Avon.. ..with a light maggot feeder tactic recently and was rewarded in style with this lovely 1b dace, his second ever of the species. Matt backed up the big dace with a handful of other dace and roach to 2lb 2oz.
“Out of nowhere my rod just took off and just about flattened my rod rest..” 70 year old John Hennessy landed himself a new pb barbel from Kings Weir in the shape of this stunning 17lb 8oz specimen. He told us “I got down to Kings Weir around 9am and… Read more
After weighing the fish I realised that I had totally smashed by PB by over a pound 51 year old specimen angler Paul Faint from Waltham Abbey recently achieved his target of a new pb from the River Thames with this 8lb 8oz beauty.Paul explains “It was just before dusk… Read more
Adrian Busby has landed his biggest ever barbel from the River Anker in Staffordshire.. After fishing it for the past 7 years. Adrian caught this lovely 16lb 2oz specimen on a recent session on a trout pellet fished on a size 12 Drennan Specialist Barbel hook.
