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Personally I've not met many barbel that will tolerate hoards of chub being caught from amongst them without becoming very spooky themselves, sometime to the point that they will leave the swim or simply get ridiculously cagey and neurotic. It may be different on the rivers you fish but on mine...

This is a situation I am well used to dealing with. There is no failproof solution but personally I would not use a bolt rig as this will also hook too many of the chub, whereas if you use less weight combined with a smallish back lead, even fairly savage pulls from the chub usually don't hook...

This is true.... one legged fish are very rare!:D

Can you catch barbel on haggis?

Are you selling chill pills on here Dave?..... Are they legal?.... and isn't selling them breaking BFW rules?

That's interesting Jon. Thanks!

Out of interest how many anglers use pellets in the winter, and how well do they do with them?

I hooked a barbel last summer and I'm still trying to get it in. Every now and then it stops fighting to pick up a few more boilies, then puts on a few pounds of muscle and starts pulling me in!

I don't think its so much a matter of sticking with the methods that are right for us as using methods that are viable in the circumstances. I don't personally know Kieth but I'd be very surprised if he would use light line tactics in a swim full of snags, as to do so would obviously have fatal...

I lost a certain 3 pound plusser last Friday. I had several good views of it during the fight but never got close to getting it in the net. Somewhere in the fight she rolled up in the line and stuck sideways in the flow. After that I'm not sure if the hook pulled and lodged somewhere else but I...

Before this thread gets locked, I'd like to take the opportunity to say that I consider this capture to be one hell of an angling feat. While I've personally caught bigger barbel, I've never caught one even a quarter of its size in such adverse conditions, nor would I have a clue how to begin...

I'm not sure that its justifiable, Jerry. But it is the way of the world. As I said earlier, the value of something is whatever you can get for it!

I didn't want to catch them Simon, I was baiting the swim for you!

You're not wrong there, apart from the fact that we have made them special. The value of anything in this world is whatever you can get for it!

Matt may not be the UK's most prolific specimen hunter but he is a big celebrity in angling. He has probably earned a packet from what he does and don't need the dosh from guiding and he probably don't much relish going fishing with punters either..... but if the price is right, why wouldn't he?

Jerry, personally I'm not sure why anyone would want to pay for a day's guided fishing unless its something that you can't do alone, such as deep sea or big game fishing, etc) but realistically how much do you think a day out with Matt or John Wilson is actually worth?

Several years ago I was given a box full of boilies, I can't remember how many packets that was but I didn't really want them. Anyway, two of us spent an age throwing them at a shoal of chub in a Wensum millpool and they ate the booming lot.

Colin. Grayling scales are fairly metallic and show different colours according to the light being reflected from them. From one angle they can appear a light soapy green/blue while from another angle they will be a dark purple/gray. Also they can be considerably darker at the back end of the...

I've also caught pike, catfish and carp on squid.

I have the odd good day with a paintbrush.... as long as I ain't doing any decorating.