He told us “I arrived to find it running clean, conditions were hardly ideal for barbel so a little change of tactics were required and it certainly paid off. Rather than filling it in and putting a load of bait out, I opted to fish a small golf ball sized pva bag filled with micro pellets with a boilie hookbait that was recast every hour.

When I hooked the fish it didn’t go particularly crazy, it just pulled and pulled, before I knew it the fish was on the other side of the river! After easing it back and a few heavy thumps it was finally in the net and was a fantastic brace alongside a 15lb 13oz fish”.