text: What bait is best for barbel?
  What bait is best for barbel?
  Top barbel fishing bait hookbait and feed combinations.
  - Marine Halibut Pellets and Pre-Drilled Marine Halibut Pellets.
  - Big Fish River Groundbait and Busters.
  - Frenzied Hemp and Snails.
  - Meaty Marine Pellets and Meaty Fish Bites.
  - Crave Boilies and Crave Tuff Paste.
  - CompleX-T pellets and CompleX-T boilies.
  What do barbels like eating?
  The barbel’s natural diet is mainly made up of crustaceans, insect larvae and molluscs, which they unearth from the riverbed. They are carnivorous and are known to feed on minnows, frogs, crayfish, fish fry and snails.
  What is the best bait for Tench?
  Best Baits The most effective baits include worms, black slugs, red maggots and casters, as tench are instinctively attracted to such baits. Bread flake, pellets, sweetcorn, prawns and boilies can also be used to catch tench. In some regions, green peas are said to work very well.
  What color are barbel maggots?
  Diso coloured maggots are dyed with Rhodamine in the feed and then with either Chrysoidine or Methic orange, Chrysoidine gives the best result and for sure the last time I bought these they had been skin dyed with Chrysoidine.
  What is the biggest barbel ever caught?
  21 lb 2 oz
  Colin Smithson caught his 21 lb 2 oz British record barbel from a Sussex river on November 7. He decided not to report his catch via any form of today’s media. Just 20 days after banking the fish, the British Record Fish Committee accepted the fish as a record.
  Does Barbel like cheese?
  Cheese is an effective bait when ledgered, float fished or free lined and cheese is a very effective fishing bait for chub, carp, tench and barbel.
  Why is tench called doctor fish?
  Also known as the ‘Doctor Fish’, the tench was thought to possess healing properties because it had been observed rubbing against other fish – behaviour thought to heal wounded fish and cure parasites and disease. This led to people boiling tench ‘slime’ (mucus that covers their body) to use as a medicine.
  Are tench bottom feeders?
  Re: Tench? Tench would eat left over food on the pond floor but so would koi as they are bottom feeders as well we only feed floating pellets for our own entertainment . The Tench might take food from the top but there own food a sinking pellet would be best i would think but have never kept tench .
  What time of year is best for barbel?
  Late summer/early autumn is traditionally the high spot of the barbel fishing year, actually, I don’t think I’ve ever caught a barbel before September on the Thames, not that I’ve tried terribly often.
  What time of day is best to catch barbel?
  Senior Member. Last hour before dusk is the best I find,especially when the river is low and clear on a bright day.It it’s running high and coloured then they will feed at any time in my experience.
  Do barbel like maggots?
  Barbel are not the most finicky of species, but it still pays to use a fairly subtle maggot approach. The artificial helps balance the weight of the hook and even if the real maggots are picked off by small fish there will still be a bait in the swim. I then just put a few real maggots on the hook.