Barbel Record Smashed!!!!!!

CAT · Oct 24, 2009

OK well so the rumor has it!

I am hearing off a few people in the know and in a few tackle shops that there are reports of a massive Barbel well over 20lb being caught from a certain location on the river Trent but the capture for some unknown reason wants no publicity, to be honest I'm not interested in the bloke who caught it but i would like to see a picture of the fish if it actually exists.

Anyone heard anything similar on the grape vine?

Right, I'm now off to the Trent Barbeling hope I'm tempting fate ;-)

Fred Bonney · Oct 24, 2009

It's been all over the grapevine for weeks.
I'm told the bloke has has 3 10lb chub too!!! :wh:j

Graham Whatmore · Oct 24, 2009

It probably grows like the grapevine too :wh

Dave Burr · Oct 24, 2009

Is it that time of the season already?

peter crabtree · Oct 24, 2009

Its true, it was me ,cant give any details at the moment. But all will come to light when I get my cheque from the Sunday Sport.

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Oct 24, 2009

Fred Bonney said:
It's been all over the grapevine for weeks.
I'm told the bloke has has 3 10lb chub too!!! :wh:j

Fred I'd rather catch a 10lb Chub than a 20lb barbel -chub and perch are my 2 favourtie fish

Mike Stafford · Oct 25, 2009

Apparently the photo shows a fish nearer 14lb than 22lb. The old telescopic arms technique was used as well.

klik2change · Oct 25, 2009

I found this link on the A1 Pits site.

http://newarkadvertiser.co.uk/template/sport0.asp?id=709f39d9-0ae3-102d-966b-fdf1bde13151

richiekelly · Oct 25, 2009

Mike Stafford said:
Apparently the photo shows a fish nearer 14lb than 22lb. The old telescopic arms technique was used as well.

where can the photograph be found?

Scott Whatmore · Oct 25, 2009

If he didn''t want any publicity. Why has he told all and sundry including the local paper?

Smells a bit fishy to me. A local club or tackle shop feeding a line to drum up more business?

POLO · Oct 25, 2009

If it's happened it's happend and congratulations to the lad. I would however like to see a pic and the article on Newarks website seems a little vague even mentioning the stretch. If the person didn't want the publicity then why on earth is it on there?

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Oct 25, 2009

I wonder if Spiders was weighing the fish for him,,,

Anyway if he has caught it, then good luck, as for keeping quiet about it, well, nuf said.

CAT · Oct 25, 2009

Aha Well, seems there may be some truth in it after all but either way good luck to the lad if he did manage a whopper, i know one thing though the Trent will hold the Barbel record some time soon, so maybe its not as far fetched as some of you have been making out.

I fished the Trent at Kelham today and the river has come up a couple of feet since the showers i had a couple of small Barbel and fished in to dark, the constant flow of leaves were a nuisance mind.

alan whittington · Oct 25, 2009

Not if the waste disposal men have their way.Best of luck to the fella if its genuine,the Trent needs a lift.

Morespiders · Oct 25, 2009

Ray Daywalker Clarke said:
I wonder if Spiders was weighing the fish for him,,,

The blokes sound, a good mate of mine, he weighed my record tench and perch for me, so no reason to doubt the authenticity of his claim, is there?.

Stealph Viper · Oct 25, 2009

I have bathroom scales that say i only weigh 12 stone, and they only go up to 10 stone :wh

adrian hoare · Nov 4, 2009

Morespiders said:
The blokes sound, a good mate of mine, he weighed my record tench and perch for me, so no reason to doubt the authenticity of his claim, is there?.

What were the weights of your perch and tench ? River perch ? Gravel pit tench ?

Morespiders · Nov 4, 2009

Aidrian, the perch if i remember right was 8lb 12oz, had much bigger since then, the tench was 19- 23lb cant remember, since then, my scales have been repaired, they were found to be underweighing, both fish were caught from a tributary of the river Bollin in Cheshire

Fred Bonney · Nov 4, 2009

Oh the webs we weave

The bad one · Nov 4, 2009

Morespiders said:
Aidrian, the perch if i remember right was 8lb 12oz, had much bigger since then, the tench was 19- 23lb cant remember, since then, my scales have been repaired, they were found to be underweighing, both fish were caught from a tributary of the river Bollin in Cheshire

Yes Mr Spider that brook out of Rostherne is a dammed go perch water for big perch. However, the mouth into the mere is even better. Had two fish of 9lb 5 oz, must have been the same year class I think.
I actually saw a fish swimming around my livebait powen I caught in the mere on single squat, that at first looking I though was a carp. As it turned sidewards I could see it was a very large perch half as much again as the 2 perch I'd just landed. If pushed to to put a weight on it, I'd say it was 12+ at a minimum. Awesome fish! Awesome water!

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