Over the last few years Pat Dower have been trying to focus on the better quality fish with barbel getting the most attention from him, he has been catching decent numbers of fish up to mid doubles, reasonably consistently from a variety of stretches of river, but the really big… Read more

Paul Allen has been putting the hours in on the Hampshire Avon and in early September, was rewarded with a new pb barbel weighing in at 15lb 5oz. “With the rivers on the rise, conditions were perfect so I headed back and fished a slack area just off the main… Read more

“Out of nowhere my rod just took off and just about flattened my rod rest..” 70 year old John Hennessy landed himself a new pb barbel from Kings Weir in the shape of this stunning 17lb 8oz specimen. He told us “I got down to Kings Weir around 9am and… Read more

Adrian Busby has landed his biggest ever barbel from the River Anker in Staffordshire..   After fishing it for the past 7 years. Adrian caught this lovely 16lb 2oz specimen on a recent session on a trout pellet fished on a size 12 Drennan Specialist Barbel hook.  

A single hookbait proved to be the winning tactic for Matthew Harris when he landed this lovely 16lb 14oz personal best barbel. Matthew told us “I decided to do a quick session after work for the evening starting at last light into darkness. I decided to fish a rather narrow… Read more

“Grabbing the rod it was obvious I’d hooked the big one and the shakes started to come on..” Mark Woodage shows persistence can pay off and if you believe in something then stick with it! He explains “It’s been a strange year for me for various reasons, a delayed house… Read more