Fruit Flavoured / sweet boilies for barbel?

has anyone tried sweet or fruit flavoured boilies for barbel? I've got a trip planned on the Severn for Thursday. i want an alternative to fishmeal. i'll be using casters oe sweetcorn om the other rod.

I was thinking about trying bright coloured tuti fruiti or pineapple boilies.

John i have heard rumours off people catching quite a few barbel on the Kenett with jelly beans so you might be onto something there or try useing them

I caught a couple of Barbel using sweet Pineapple flavour baits on the river Lea while after Carp once or twice although I usually use different fishmeal or meat based flavours when targetting Barbel.

As for sweet baits; In the book 'Big Barbel - Bonded by the challenge' (page 9) there is a bit about a 'sweet bait' used by a couple of very succesfull Adams Mill Barbel anglers who used what they termed their 'special paste bait' which was a sweet bait which caught them some superb Barbel, and Bob Church used a Caramel flavoured sweet bait.

I remember Des Taylor using esterberry flavour boillies for barbel on the kennet and catching on them.

Matt Hayes used to swear by esterberry also strawberry flavoured sweetcorn. Let's not kid ourselves here chaps once Barbel start feeding there's not a lot they wont eat.