New record Barbel announced

[rich66]

Huge 21lb 2oz fish has just been announced by the angling times
Nice early Christmas present for someone

Angling Times - ***BREAKING NEWS***

A new British record... | Facebook

 

[mikench]

I'd be pleased with that, in fact astounded.

 

[daniel121]

Wow, that must look like goldern uboat!

 

[Keith M]

What a fabulous fish!

Keith

 

[seth49]

Now that’s some barbel, well done to the captor, that’s exactly ten pounds bigger than my PB.

 

[103841]

Seeing this fish set me to thinking, is there, or could there ever be a carbel?

 

[John Keane]

Must have been some time verifying it, the picture is taken in mid summer by the look of it.

Great Ouse, Dorset Stour, Kennet?

 

[Neil Maidment]

Caught just one month ago and from a Sussex river. Church? What church? :whmg:

 

[John Keane]

Caught just one month ago and from a Sussex river. Church? What church? :whmg:

Not buying one month ago, look at the foliage on the trees.

 

[Neil Maidment]

BRFC via The Angling Trust say 9 Nov from a Sussex river.

 

[103841]

Caught just one month ago and from a Sussex river. Church? What church? :whmg:

Sussex??? I’m not up on barbel fishing but surprised the Southeast can now boast this record.

That pairs nicely with the joint perch record in the same county

 

[flightliner]

I'm tempted to say a stretch of the river Trent, but I suppose it will all be revealed in the Christmas edition of the Angling times !

 

[steve2]

Hopefully caught from a big river or the circus will come to town.

 

[flightliner]

(Hopefully caught from a big river or the circus will come to town.
steve 2 quote)
Like a rash Steve2!

 

[The bad one]

The circus has by now already been to town!

 

[The bad one]

Ps anybody know where P S is fishing at the moment?

 

[steve2]

I see that the record for the Three-spined Stickleback was also broken. Can’t see them queuing up to catch that one again.

 

[no-one in particular]

My guess is the Sussex Ouse but I am not sure which rivers run in that county partly. Anyone recognise the steeple in the background?

 

[John Keane]

Still won’t make me buy Angling Times!

 

[theartist]

My guess is the Sussex Ouse but I am not sure which rivers run in that county partly. Anyone recognise the steeple in the background?

The Ouse, Arun and Adur all hold Barbel, could be any. I hope the guy doesn't get any grief for the recognisable background. Hope it's from a tidal stretch as those rivers push through like beasts, that will get the circus spinning like tops