Favorite hook size for barbel?

[Neil Smart]

How can anyone have a favourite hook size for Barbel?

 

[Sam Lloyd]

Kamasan B981 size 2/4 for meat paste
Drennan Barbel Specialist 2 - 8 for meat
Drennan Barbel Specialist 10 - 14 for pellets
Drennan Super Spades 14 - 18 summer casters/maggots
Drennan Carbon Feeder 14 - 18 winter maggot

 

[Neil Smart]

Kamasan B981 size 2/4 for meat paste
Drennan Barbel Specialist 2 - 8 for meat
Drennan Barbel Specialist 10 - 14 for pellets
Drennan Super Spades 14 - 18 summer casters/maggots
Drennan Carbon Feeder 14 - 18 winter maggot

That's five.

 

[John Care]

Kamasan B981 size 2/4 for meat paste
Drennan Barbel Specialist 2 - 8 for meat
Drennan Barbel Specialist 10 - 14 for pellets
Drennan Super Spades 14 - 18 summer casters/maggots
Drennan Carbon Feeder 14 - 18 winter maggot

be interested to see how you land an angry double figure barbel on a fine wire sz 18 spade end.....

 

[Jason Bean]

I don't see any fine wire hooks there?

 

[Sam Lloyd]

be interested to see how you land an angry double figure barbel on a fine wire sz 18 spade end.....

Carbon feeder and Super spades aren't fine wire bud ....

 

[Sam Lloyd]

That's five.

There are a lot more than five sizes in that list!

 

[Neil Smart]

There are a lot more than five sizes in that list!

Ditto
Ditto
Ditto (repeat)

 

[Jeff Collins]

Some are too eager to be critical. Good people know when to apologise.

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

Never mind all that Jeff , the world needs to know your favourite hook size , far more important

 

[Jeff Collins]

Never mind all that Jeff , the world needs to know your favourite hook size , far more important

Gardner covert dark mugga for me Mike. Used a few other types. Never lost a fish through a hook pull on these.

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

Size Jeff size, this is what we need to know They sound a bit sinister those hooks, 'mugging ', 'covert' , 'dark' , scary....

 

[John Care]

why has this thread been re-awakened after a whole year?!

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

Probably to determine if indeed it is the dullest thread ever put up on BFW Could be in the top 5 , the winner for me is' which landing net handle ' . If you look at the views on this hook size topic though it's clearly very popular

 

[David Gauntlett]

Probably to determine if indeed it is the dullest thread ever put up on BFW Could be in the top 5 , the winner for me is' which landing net handle ' . If you look at the views on this hook size topic though it's clearly very popular

Only 'cos this Mike Hodgkiss geezer keeps posting on it

Cheers, Dave.

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

That's true , I'll get me coat .......

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

By the way ,Size 4/0 for me , nice and sharp, can be concealed inside a tin full of garlic spam with ease

 

[David Gauntlett]

By the way ,Size 4/0 for me , nice and sharp, can be concealed inside a tin full of garlic spam with ease

Do you think the barbel will cope with those fiddly openers to get at it then Mike?

Cheers, Dave

 

[Mike Hodgkiss]

These are northern Barbel david , they can pick open the tins with their barbules , then they weigh in said metal for scrap

 

[David Gauntlett]

Darn sarf, the barbel take all their scrap to the dealers in the supermarket trolleys the northern geezers take their pies to their swim in, and dump in the rivers afterwards

Cheers, Dave.