Barbel swims and habitats ?
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:09 am
Hello,
last Sunday i was fishing with a friend on a small river that was new to us both in that stretch.
The stretch we could fish was divided in the middle by a weir.
Below the weir it looked like prime barbel fishing spots. Deep and fast Weirpools, flat and lone glides with loads of weed in the rather strong current and undercut banks on reedbeds with deep gullies now and then.
We didnt catch or even see any fish apart from some small chub in this whole faster and more lively looking stretch below the weir.
Above the weir there was a long slow section of water. Not much current, flat bottom, not to deep, no special features. We could spot a carp there so we decided to fish there for the evening. And we caught 12 barbel up to 4 lbs in 4 hours, all on ledgered meat.
Aint this unnormal, or do the barbel just not know the text book rules for their prime spots ?
Dont get me wrong, im pretty glad we found this spot and fished there, i am also sure that bigger barbel should be possible there. I am just very surprised by this incident and wanted to ask if any of you Gentlemen experienced similar stuff or could give me a hint why that is.
Thanks,
Axel
last Sunday i was fishing with a friend on a small river that was new to us both in that stretch.
The stretch we could fish was divided in the middle by a weir.
Below the weir it looked like prime barbel fishing spots. Deep and fast Weirpools, flat and lone glides with loads of weed in the rather strong current and undercut banks on reedbeds with deep gullies now and then.
We didnt catch or even see any fish apart from some small chub in this whole faster and more lively looking stretch below the weir.
Above the weir there was a long slow section of water. Not much current, flat bottom, not to deep, no special features. We could spot a carp there so we decided to fish there for the evening. And we caught 12 barbel up to 4 lbs in 4 hours, all on ledgered meat.
Aint this unnormal, or do the barbel just not know the text book rules for their prime spots ?
Dont get me wrong, im pretty glad we found this spot and fished there, i am also sure that bigger barbel should be possible there. I am just very surprised by this incident and wanted to ask if any of you Gentlemen experienced similar stuff or could give me a hint why that is.
Thanks,
Axel