Throop fishery on the Dorset Stour is best known for its chub these days, but there are some huge barbel there too, as venue regular Paul proved with this 17lb 13oz fish.
It’s the biggest barbel ever caught from the famous stretch of river and was taken whilst the water was in floodwater condition. A Blue Protein Cheese dumbbell hookbait tempted the fish, wrapped in paste and fished alongside a PVA bag filled with micro pellets and the same bait, but crushed. It gave an epic battle in the heavy flow, before finally coming to the net.
Well done Paul!