Floodwater Barbel - Lessons Learnt

[Graham Marsden]

This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Floodwater Barbel - Lessons Learnt

 

[Fred Bonney]

Well done Sean, nice and descriptive.

Just a quicky, how much notice to you take of flow rates, and does this affect your choice of swim?

 

[teztench]

Nice report Sean Well done mate.Tight Lines

 

[Sean Meeghan]

My own prefernce in flood conditions is for a crease swim with some slack water down the near side. To be honest this is only to make life easier for me as it means that I can sink my line in the slack water, keeping the line out in themain current close to the bottom.

I'm not sure that the pace of a swim really matters - any swim that you can fish with reasonable tackle is likely to produce barbel.

 

[tigger]

That was great Sean, I really enjoyed the read, and the accompanying pic's where spot on. In fact it made me want to get the gear out and go have a stab at the barb's myself, well done.

 

[Skoda]

Excellent read Sean, many thanks. Single minded as ever, what were you going to use the maggots for if you were supposed to be Zander fishing? Just in case?

Andy

 

[Sean Meeghan]

:wh I'd brought them for catching zander baits!

 

[Skoda]

Yeah! Right! I've just learned how to do ; and !

Andy

 

[Bryan Baron 2]

Usual good read Sean. Took a week of work so hoping the Ribble will be kind to me.