Barbel Bait

There’s a particular kind of stubbornness required to love barbel fishing. You can sit behind two rods on a flood-swollen river for six hours, watch the tip do absolutely nothing, and still turn up again next weekend convinced today’s the day. Bait is usually where that conviction lives or dies. best barbel boilies aren’t just … Read more

Barbel are a shoaling river fish found in fast, gravelly stretches of British rivers, and they respond strongly to bait built around fishmeal, hemp, pellets, and scent-leaking groundbait rather than anything fancy or expensive. The good news for anyone starting out is that the tackle shop shelf full of premium boilies isn’t where barbel fishing … Read more