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[barbelboi]

do you think that they are more likley to take them just after spawning when they need to quickly replace energy they have used up, its an idea i have had for ages but never had the gonads to try.

Yes, minnows as bait seamed to be most sucessful during the first few weeks of the season - never had much luck in the latter part. I haven't used minnow specifically for barbel for some years now and, although I use it quite often for chub, have not caught a barbel on it recently by mistake either.
Jerry

 

[cg74]

So What is your point???mg:

Saved me asking.

 

[Bob Hornegold]

I just find the often used category of 'pleasure fishing' odd. All recreational fishing is done for pleasure.

It is often used instead of saying 'general coarse fishing'

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No it's not.

I was out in all that rain last night and it was Hard Work, but as a Specimen Angler I had too fish.

Dedicated Specimen Hunting is about fishing in ideal conditions for the Species you are targeting, warm, thundery and raining in this case.

I hate the Rain and getting wet, it's not " Recreational " it's hard work and having stood in the pouring rain playing a fish that took me through every weed bed on the lake before straightening the hook.

It was not pleasure.

Please don't ask me why I do it, because I have no answer, except the challenge of " Being There ", which many Pleasure Anglers find hard to understand.

Oh and Minnows are brilliand bait for so many species !!

Bob

 

[quickcedo]

Please don't ask me why I do it

Perverted pleasure??????????

 

[Jeff Woodhouse]

We found minnow a good bait early season

And not only minnows for barbel -

What about lures as well?

 

[barbelboi]

Nice pic Jeff, but was it taken in the UK. I know Spanish barbel react to lures and even surface feed (fall to a dry fly etc.)?

 

[jdaniels]

I would just like to thank me hornegold for his response as it covered a lot that I was going to say, I just enjoy the "pleasure" fishing in the summer months when I have the odd day off am definitely going to try the minnow for the chub. Thanks for the help.

 

[little oik]

It just pleases me when I go fishing :w cannot be doing with the stress at all those matches