No Chris, rent a premise in the high street, call it The East Anglia Bank, sit behind the counter and wait for the money to roll in. for sure the banks made more money out of the deal than Billy Makin ever did.
Bait dependant barbel interesting and probably true!
I did some research on bait dependant carp in a local water a few years ago, I took marginal invertibrate samples over two different lake locations close by, one was an angling water and one had been, but had lost angling two years previously, the water in which angling was no longer practiced had a significant decrease in marginal invertibrate fauna!