Barbel in canals
What ho chaps Without wanting to get in to the barbel shouldn't be in stillwater debate - do you think barbel would thrive if stocked in a large canals such as the Grand Union - Tally Ho
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HUGE (and I mean HUGE) barbel in the derelict, pre-restoration Kennet & Avon Canal of the late 1970s and early 1980s. I hooked one once, semi-on-purpose, whilst Lift Method float-fishing a lock...
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What ho lord,fink youve lost the plot mate.why would you want to stock barbel,in a silty mud bottomed,cesspit of a canal,when everyone (cept stuck-up posh twits)half cut on best port,knows the correct...
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your right,but you could say the same thing about stillwaters.after all, canals are pretty much a stillwater.dave.
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Ousechav old bean your wise words are wisely put -what excellent thoughts an so beautifully put - your Enlgish teacher, I'm assuming you did go to school once, must be well pleased with you. Tally Ho
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The area immediately below locks often have good flow with a clean gravel bed, fishing is only really feasible before or after the locks are in use though. J
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Canals vary quite a lot. There are many stretches of the Kennet & Avon that are quite fast flowing and which certainly have clean gravel. On the other hand, there are very silty and slow-flowing...
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Does the running pound of the GU not already have the odd barbel in?
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that I have in mind (please, nobody mention specific places), then it does. I had a couple in the early 1980s, before fishing the little bit of water concerned was banned, before there were people...
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never heard of a barb from the gu canal but who would advertise it. big,big,big carp for sure.dave.
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oh there are some in there alright, probably moved illegally from the colne...j.w
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yes john I agree they are definately present, thought it was discussed on the Colne thread this year
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There lots of Barbel in the Lea Navigation, with Barbel of over 13lbs being caught well below the Weirs. The Barbel stay in the slower water, unmolested by anglers, unless they fall foul of Carp and...
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Definitely barbel in the GU @ Watford they came from a stocking in the Upper Gade - look here :- www.watfordpiscators.co.uk/gallbarb.htm Regards Pail.
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there are some huge mahseer in the "Power Channel" canal at Sivasamudram ("Bluff") on the Kaveri River, some miles up from where you fished recently. One of them, 60 pounds, thumped into an Original...
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lord paul try your local canal they take a bit of finding but they are there caught a few as a lad not far from park hill flats next to a outflow pipe that always seemed to have warm water coming out...
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Thanks for the update Paul - they sure as hell weren't where we were! (Thanks as well for the pre-trip advice!) Regards Paul.
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"they sure as hell weren't where we were" They were, Paul - you were on the very best stretch of the river; it holds monsters. Mahseer, for various reasons - cold weather fronts, high water, low...
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we have to thank our canal system for re-populating some of our rivers with barbel the fish use canals to move between rivers and pass weir pools
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