Barbel Fishing Is Easy - If You Get This Right!

Learn more about barbel fishing with Adam Rooney, captor of countless double figure barbel and top boy at Guru Fishing.
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[@gavincorbett1272]

Good content and information as always carl...in my personal barbel fishing I always go with the Des Taylor approach and bait up for an hour before I wet any lines then feed small pouch fulls of pellets every 15 minutes or so...works well for me 🙂

[@mikestout2315]

Brilliant this carl. As always very informative and just makes you want to get out there. I started two years ago at fisheries and park lakes using advice from people like yourself. Since i have had some great days on the Shropshire union canal. I like how natural baits such as maggot were mentioned. A good friend of mine who has helped me on my journey once said he would fish the Severn for barbel. This was late 80s to early 90s. He would find a peg and stick to it. 5 pints of maggots in before a rod! Large roach, bream and chub would come out first but with continuous feeding they would leave and make way for a good session on the barbel. Great to see these tactics you guys are sharing as my river fishing adventure is starting this year. Now closed season is over. Thank you

[@JMB1.0]

Love you man

[@deedontworry]

Barbel fishing is the best! 🔥

[@howardbradley6753]

Want to say a quick thank you to both of you, two days ago I went coarse fishing for my first ever time, after watching your full 'fishing for beginners', float fishing, and 'knot tieing' playlists... it worked a treat!! I went in the 'beginner' pool out of 4 pools in my area, and managed to catch a 5lbs carp within quite literally a couple of minutes! I also managed to catch a 4lbs bream, and multiple smaller tench, roaches and a tiny gudgeon!! Honestly you made fishing so much easier for me as a 25yr old who has wanted to try it sincw I was about 16 but didn't know where to start!! I can now join my mates confidently!😊🫶🫶

[@michaelboyle9889]

Great video guys with some awesome tips tight lines 🎣👍👍

[@HopeCoreEditsYT]

UNDER RATED CHANNEL IM 14 IM TRYING OUT FISHING WITH MY UNCLE SOON HE IS A PROFESIONAL AND IVE LEARNED ALOT WITH YOUR CHANNEL TOO KEEP IT UP DUDE!

[@fishingtutorials]

That is awesome to hear, thank you mate, enjoy your fishing!!

[@HopeCoreEditsYT]

@@fishingtutorials I will thanks:)

[@daz3434]

Great content and spot on with these lads approach to barble fishing. Off on the Severn for two weeks this Saturday it's on hellava drug.

[@jasonmullally493]

Another quality video 👌

[@raresniculae5936]

It is a good day when you upload

[@Eligoodchild]

Hi Carl can you please make a video of all the rod setups you use for which occasions many thanks 😊

[@No_you-D0nt]

another great video keep it up

[@georgerhodes2318]

Watching while sorting my gear for tomorrow thanks for the content mate 🎣👍

[@louski009]

did you catch

[@ThyOdn]

I didn’t know we were getting a new tutorial vid !!!

[@tomz8743]

this is perfect, just got on my local club ticket and they have a strech of the trent :O will be taking this video with me. thankyou both for the amazing video

[@Moe_dawah]

👌

[@user-ol2kc3mh3s]

great video there mate

[@fishingtutorials]

Thanks! 👍

[@Timur-bh1un]

Thank you!! Now im sure my river might holds them

[@marian_kanchev]

Мнохо хубаво видео. Поздрави!

[@liamstevens6014]

Loved it. Great ending too!!! That's a barbel, but bigger 😂.

[@fishingtutorials]

Haha, cheers Liam! Glad you liked it!!

[@briprin7391]

could you do a tutorial on fishing with hemp

[@erickrosseto9747]

I wish we had them in Brazil...

[@titchworld8082]

great video carl and lots of info :) I was wondering if there is a good way to figure out what size feeders and leads i would need to fish somewhere like the Trent? also if I do have the wrong size on is it obvious that I'm not holding bottom? thanks :)

[@iamnotabutter]

Nice job mate! Always place a smile on everyone's face!

[@barbaraneville5036]

I fish the Ivel and the Lea so not tidal or huge rivers But great for Barbel But no night fishing is our club rules. Carl you need to check Fishers green consortium for a day out on the Lea or the Ivel protection Association for the Ivel

[@fr0sty_nugz]

For me barbel are so so elusive around me. With the recent flooding theres barbel in a lake that didnt hold them before 😂 next season is gonna be good

[@55knifedamage41]

in my area we fish for big barbel with squared shaped cheddar like cheese (like a yellow cheddar that is smoother and the taste is not so punchy for humans as "orange" cheddar) leave it a day in the sun to get that specific stink and it works so well :D

[@nicksvinylbutty5488]

What baitrunners were you using please ???

[@matthewfoster6620]

I wonder how people who've bivvied on the rivers waiting for the season to start at midnight are watching this now

[@haydnrowley5396]

I was fishing for the first time today and caught a nice sized barbell on a float

[@tenchskate6066]

Well done

[@carlbrain3758]

How long do you leave a rig in position? As in how long in flow does that feeder typically last before all the bait is washed out & is no longer affective? So basically roughly how often should you recast? I appreciate this will be dependent on the strength of the flow & the mix of the bait. But a rough idea? Also what size hooks? Sorry if you did answer these in the video. I'm watching as I'm typing so I may not have got there yet...

[@fishingtutorials]

Hi mate! It's so tricky to set hard rules for these things as there's so many variables. The harder you squeeze in the groundbait, the longer it'll stay in. Pellet heavy mixes will stay in longer too. I've had bait still in the feeder when reeling in two hours later! (that was with a pellet heavy mix and I squeezed it in really hard) Personally I like to start of pinching the bait in quite lightly, to get the bait out there asap. Later in the session, i'll squeeze it in tighter to avoid filling the fish up. On a small river with low stock of barbel, I'll want to be making one cast and then waiting sometimes for an hour or more! On bigger rivers with a higher stock, like the trent or the wye, I'll cast every 20-40mins and keep a trickle of bait going in! Size 12 up to a size 8 are all good, depends on the size of your hookbait. Maggots - 12, worms 10, pellet or spam 8. :) Good luck out there!

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Interesting, I did notice a few contradictions though.

[@jacklimpkin9347]

what area of the trent is this?

[@Flamunio]

Bolt or running?

[@Robertosborn420]

Iv only had lake barbel to probably 2lb max

[@Dartden492]

im lucky enough to live 10 mins away from the trent

[@jahrolo]

In almost any english feeder video anglers are using mono as mainline. Is braid with a monoleader not appropriate or just not necessary? Or just a personal choice?

[@TheMortalKombatent]

more stretch to absorb head shakes and less tangles.

[@jahrolo]

@@TheMortalKombatent seems like it comes down to which water you are fishing and personal preferences

[@longjohn6289]

Braid also has no stretch so is more likely to yank your feeder out of place than mono. And to counteract strong flow of you were to use thin braid you’re likely to have problems with getting cut off. Most bites are also obvious so might aswell use a cheaper more forgiving line you can change if you have a problem

[@Fletch08Videos]

Third comment

[@portcullis5622]

Barbel fishing can indeed be easy. Too easy, in fact. That is why I hardly fish for them these days. They are 'in fashion' (the new carp fishing), but they are not the hardest species to outwit and they are sensitive to disturbance and take a long time to recover. Many streches of certain rivers are heavily overfished, with constant pressure for 9 months of the year. There is no need for carp tactics. If there is, then it shows that the fish have been caught far too often. There is also no need for hammering the same swims for multiple catches and weighing and photographing every fish. Angling should be about being in tune with nature. Not taming it, in a macho way, for bragging rights and Instagram accounts. If we lose sight of that, then we are merely bringing forward the day when we are not allowed to fish any more.