After seeing some very well taken pictures of well earned barbel on different river sites it has left me wondering. My biggest barbel is 10lb 40z and I
don't remember it as a fat fish. Are big barbel getting beer/pellet bellies. We have all seen week in week out pictures in the Mail/Times with over fed
Pigs/Carp, I just wonder if we as barbel anglers are sending our favoured species down the same route.


