It appears to be the trend as the colder weather fronts move in that barbel tend to be caught on smaller baits, i.e.: 6mm pellets or small boillies.
Do you think this simply down to they don't need as much to sustain them at this time of the year or they have been hammered all season and get wary of the normal sized baits presented to them?
Logic would dictate that after swimming in faster flowing flood waters for a few days, they would need to feed again to get there energy levels back up or is that too simple of an analysis?
Do you think this simply down to they don't need as much to sustain them at this time of the year or they have been hammered all season and get wary of the normal sized baits presented to them?
Logic would dictate that after swimming in faster flowing flood waters for a few days, they would need to feed again to get there energy levels back up or is that too simple of an analysis?
..well small baits it will be and the odd big one in the right conditions ie lump of meat and lump of paste ..small boilies of 10 and 12mm maybe smaller ones .. plus small blobs of paste ..and i agree that the fish will need to eat a little something to gain some energy back from all that swimming ..but i was out the weekend and one barble still fell to a 20mm boilie 
and 10 chub so this was a good size but not cold yet
