I have not really fished for Barbel properly, apart from a few sessions on the Trent in the 1990's which always provided me with smallish Chub! I used to ledger luncheon meat cubes below Stoke Bardolph weir at night, back in the day!
I do own a couple of Diawa Twilight rods & 2 x Shimano 4000 series reels + 2 x Centrepin reels. I got 'snapped off' a couple of years back by a fish that took a halibut pellet on a hair rig... it was odd but initially it felt like a small Chub. After a few seconds the weight REALLY stacked on & a large heavy fish was slowly swimming up stream with me 'hanging on' to it! The drag was not set-up properly & I could not give it line quickly enough & it took my 10lb hooklink etc.... It has crossed my mind that a double figure Pike may have taken the original small fish, it was very exciting, disappointing too & I will never know for sure what happened?

I was a member on BFW for a time, it seems like that site is now archived but this seems a good alternative forum..

Barry

Hello and welcome to the forum

Welcome to the barbel hunters forum Barry.

Nothing worse than losing a good fish and not knowing what is was.

Its like having some HOT tall busty blonde giving you the eye and then your mates dragging you off to another bar.



All the best

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"Its like having some HOT tall busty blonde giving you the eye and then your mates dragging you off to another bar."

Ha ha....... if only

Thanks for the welcome

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