Hundreds of fish have been released into the River Thames to help boost stocks for anglers. As part of the Environment Agency's (EA) fish restocking programme, 250 barbel have been released at Ferry ...

If you are serious about your barbel fishing, you will be well aware of Kings Weir on the River Lea. This has to be one of, ...

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A lucky angler reeled in a whopper of a fish from the River Itchen and has branded it "the catch of a lifetime". Lee Edmond-Hiett, 43, from Southampton, was fishing near the White Swan on Sunday when ...

Fishing a weekend session with his brother-in-law, at a stretch of the river they’d not tried before, both were hoping to snare their first barbel. Things didn’t start too promisingly, as their first ...

Start by laying down a carpet of feed using groundbait, hemp and pellets to concentrate the barbel in an area. Cast out a ...

THE River Ribble's barbel record has fallen. The captor of the new record, weighing a magnificent 13lbs 10oz, is Accrington's Mark Halstead, holder of the previous biggest from what is now one of the ...

BARBEL, a type of bottom-feeding catfish, is renowned for being terrible-tasting, but many anglers love to catch them because of the massive fight they put up once the hook is set. The bait used to ...

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