“The fish put up a great fight that got Paul’s adrenaline pumping” Essex based angler Paul Faint has ended the season in remarkable form, and after bagging a trio of huge chub, he’s now landed this 18lb 4oz barbel. Targeting the Thames, he opted for a luncheon meat hookbait, and… Read more

“He struggled to get the fish to surface as it bored for the riverbed” Barbel are famed for their savage bites, but this 19lb 2oz middle Trent specimen gave Andrew Degville just a few taps on the rod tip. Fishing an 18mm boilie and a PVA bag of freebies, Andrew… Read more

“A 30-minute battle in biting winds followed, before he slipped the net under what he describes as the fish of a lifetime” The River Trent has been in blistering form all season, and it certainly showed no signs of slowing up for Aydon Marshall, who landed this 19lb 6oz barbel… Read more

“Just weeks after James Champkin banked a 19lb 7oz barbel from the River Lea, local expert Ray Kent has topped that with a 19lb 14oz leviathan” Fishing the Kings Weir stretch, Ray, a bailiff on the venue, found the stretch in great nick after recent floods, with the river about… Read more

“Reward after dozens of sessions plagued by bream and eels” Duncan Hayward’s lifetime goal was to catch a 15lb barbel, but on a recent outing, he absolutely obliterated the target with this 18lb 6oz beast. Fishing the Thames, Duncan used a snowman rig featuring Pepperami and a Alfie Russell Secret… Read more

“Extracting fish of this calibre from tight, snaggy swims on small, overgrown rivers, brings a level of exhilaration that’s hard to match” Braving the extreme weather resulted in this staggering 19lb 7oz River Lea record barbel that wrenched James Champkin’s rod round just two-minutes after casting out. The Hertfordshire specimen… Read more