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THE past week was a productive one of many stretches of river and river record barbel – from venues that don’t dominate the news – were the star catches.
The River Rother in West Sussex had its barbel record smashed with a 16 lb 12 oz fish reported to Dave Chambers.
Derbyshire’s River Derwent has produced a stunning 15 lb 8 oz
Angler’s Mail’s popular Action Replay series brings you a different method with a guest angler every week – and the July 19 issue has a superb feature with Russ Evans.
Russ, who works at the Bury Hill fishery and shop, invited us to follow him at Monk Lakes as he targets barbel… on a stillwater!
And he didn’t let us down.
Read the
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THIS 14 lb 10 oz River Lea barbel makes it doubles from 20 different rivers for West Midlands-based ace Phil Smith.
Phil was fishing the club consortium controlled Fishers Green stretch of the river where he was hoping to catch some chub, when he added another 10 lb-plusser to his lengthy list.
He nabbed the beard on a 10mm boilie on a
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TWO huge specimens are being claimed by Matt Adams including the biggest ever barbel from a top UK river at 18 lb 5 oz.
In an unbelievable session Matt landed a 15 lb 1 oz bream which could be the biggest ever from flowing water.
But poor night photographs taken on his mobile plus his girlfriend Janette’s phone might mean it will
THIS week’s Angler’s Mail cover star, Pete Reading, gives a masterclass in tactics for bigger barbel inside the magazine.
And to prove his special small pellet methods work, Pete caught the huge whopper – seen on our cover – to order!
You’ll be impressed by the Tackle Up feature and learn loads. And as a bonus – why not watch Pete in
BARBEL fans had better watch out this summer as the nation’s favourite river species are in danger.
A new fish welfare warning has gone out as we have now had the official driest start to the spring and summer for 70 years, and our rivers are set to get even lower again.
And barbel experts have appealed for ultra cautious fish care
ALL-ROUNDER Steve Collett had two amazing consecutive days sport in totally different disciplines which is virtually unheard of any more in this age of specialised angling.
Steve showed he’s not a one trick pony by bagging two stunning double-figure barbel in bright afternoon conditions and followed it up the very next day with a 300 lb-plus match-winning carp bag.
And amazingly the
Here’s a simple but effective rig to catch barbel in the summer. The rig incorporates 12 lb fluorocarbon main line, a 10 lb fluorocarbon hook length and a size 10 hook with a hair-rigged boilie. Fluorocarbon has two main advantages when barbel fishing – it is almost invisible in water and also pins itself on the deck.
The rig is completed
