I have now talked with the barbel society and they advised on good spots to fish offord so i will percist with that, i can still send images if you'd like, the barbel at St.neots were at the main weir pool in eaton socon near the rivermill tavern, round about 2002 after school i used to fish it too and a guy called
Andrew Mitchell had 3x barbel in one evening session there each weigihng at 7lb mark, it is a memory that stays with me to this day, he casted to the first pillar for them with luncheon meat, he was on the bank side, ive tryed a few times to copy his methods but i get bites from krayfish in that spot, but i did catch a small 2lb barbel further down from the weirpool and other guys have told me they have small barbel and chub out, but for small barbel there has to be bigger ones right? dont barbel have to reach a certain size before spawning? i was wondering if you knew about hemingford grey weir where barbel were caught back in the day, im not sure where to find this weirpool is it the same weirpool as houghton mill ?