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Austinma1	Cold weather barbel	Lead	[-]
Posts: 118 (03/02/06 17:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None With the current cold spell curtailing my attempts at catching one of our be-whiskered friends, I was wondering just how bleak things have to be before barbel-fishing takes a back seat. I recall a photo in one of my early barbel books (possibly Trefor's & Tony's seminal title) of a very cold and bedraggled looking Ray Walton holding a small barbel taken whilst snow lies all around him. Is it worth persevering in these type of conditions? What has been the worst conditions one of the BFW members have taken a barbel in? Has anybody caught having had to break the marginal ice first. Just looking to get a bit of encouragment and enthusiasm to help drag myself down to the banks for another inevitable blank. It's that or decorate the back bedroom! Alternatively I could always take up chub fishing ;-) Regards Mark
lesliefisherman	Re: Cold weather barbel	#1	[-]
Posts: 2713 (03/02/06 17:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	hi,chub fishing may be your better opion in this weather,but if you do the back bedroom up,you maybe able to get a few more trips in when conditions improve,after doing the bedroom,sure your misses will let you.regards derek.
rodenline	Re: Cold weather barbel	#2	[-]
Posts: 625 (03/02/06 18:25) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* after doing the bedroom,sure your misses will let you.regards derek. Oh derek you are such a wag
DAVSURB	Re: Cold weather barbel	#3	[-]
Posts: 751 (03/02/06 20:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Mark I did catch a couple off the Thames last January whilst shivering under my shelter and snow falling. So it is possible to catch but I think you need to drop the bait right in front of them. Your not gonna catch sitting at home is my view. (Unless you have a copy of Fishsim of course ) Dave
Phil Adams	Re: Cold weather barbel	#4	[-]
Posts: 555 (03/02/06 23:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My new years resolution was to fish more, much more this year. I have been fishing 2 or 3 times a week through january and so far have blanked this year. I think we need rain and more rain, but I will keep at it until the close (closed?) season stops play. Yes, obviously they feed less, but unless you are fishing where you can see the fish, you won't know unless you try. I'm going to chuck it and chance it until I just happen to be in the right place at the right time. And wednesday, I banked a 6lb chub, which was a very welcome consolation prize, pb by a long way and one that I will probably never better. Made all those blanks worth it, but I still want a boris this season. Good luck, Phil Adams
RollingPinBoy	Re: Cold weather barbel	#5	[-]
Posts: 1455 (03/02/06 23:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I caught in those very cold conditions when i was experimenting on how lower water temperature i could catch them. I had one at 35F and one the next day at 36F when the ice water was in the river with a tinge of colour but still low flows. Having tried to catch more over the years, which i have at 37-40F, the bite ratio is very low indeed especially on pressured areas of a fishery. I remember that there was also the 'odd' cold water feeder barbel that tend to sort of like that condition and i have 'accidentally' re-captured them as they move about the fishery in the coldest conditions. As you might know, the barbel do acclimatise to the low temperatures...eventually, but they are not easy to catch in low cold and gin clear conditions. The effort for one bite is demoralising in a way, and nowadays i just wait for the conditions to improve or do short sharp stints of a couple of hours especially towards dusk...Ray "They're bigger than me but they keep my ears warm!" www.barbelshack.biz/

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