Beautiful barbel!
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Beautiful barbel!
Fishing out the back of my new best friends back garden which overlooks the Cherwell and another rivers confluence today,
So in effect I have two rivers to myself!
The rivers down here in Oxford are as low as ours up home but I have fished here before so I know at least their are lots of fish about,
I was after quality perch, I bought my worms down from stoke, these worms are pampered and huge, I also had some perch flavour attractor from Archie Braddock, so as far as I was concerned, the perch were in trouble!
I caught, a very welcome tiny and beautiful barbel, the smallest barbel in the world, first cast!
A huge snotty bream and lots of smaller ones, roach, dace, more barbel and Ronny crayfish,
Not a single perch went for any bait, but plenty attacked my stick float as I reeled it in, I should have got the spinner out really but I was determined to do stick fishing
The reel is three and a half inch diameter to give an idea of scale
So in effect I have two rivers to myself!
The rivers down here in Oxford are as low as ours up home but I have fished here before so I know at least their are lots of fish about,
I was after quality perch, I bought my worms down from stoke, these worms are pampered and huge, I also had some perch flavour attractor from Archie Braddock, so as far as I was concerned, the perch were in trouble!
I caught, a very welcome tiny and beautiful barbel, the smallest barbel in the world, first cast!
A huge snotty bream and lots of smaller ones, roach, dace, more barbel and Ronny crayfish,
Not a single perch went for any bait, but plenty attacked my stick float as I reeled it in, I should have got the spinner out really but I was determined to do stick fishing
The reel is three and a half inch diameter to give an idea of scale
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Re: Beautiful barbel!
Nice one Leveller, I love that picture, it's says it all.
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Re: Beautiful barbel!
Hi Leveller, I live very near the Cherwell in Oxfordshire, I don't suppose you are in a position to share the location of these lovely fish are you? Obviously a general idea rather than your friends address
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I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
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Re: Beautiful barbel!
You have a pm
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Its good to see the Cherwell has some young fish in it, the barbel population plummeted some time ago. Lovely picture.
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Re: Beautiful barbel!
Stunning
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Re: Beautiful barbel!
Very nice
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Lovely baby barbel and good news for the Cherwell.
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My god...if I caught that I think I'd think I'd smashed the gudgeon record. What a little cutie, superb!!
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