My first Barbel - River Culm

[barbelblanker]

What a stunner for a first fish. If anyone knows what it feels like to fish for ages for these then it's me. Had two now but I wouldn't mind reckoning that yours would run the pair very close on weight .

Nice one.

[barbelblanker]

And I meant TOTAL weight of BOTH of mine, again what a corker.

[younggun7]

Originally Posted by karl4010

cracking fish .. how good is the river culm .. i do a lot of pleasure fishing on the avon and river frome in somerset ,,, only ever fished lime killns once and blanked ,,, looking for local rivers anyone got any ideas ,,,

Well, to be honest. I'm quite an inexperienced fisherman, so I haven't put many hours into fishing the culm. I've only fished it for a few months.

Had a few dace, one cracking 3lb Chub which had a gill missing, and two Barbel!

[rickster]

what a great catch well done mate, have never caught a barbel especially in the culm, but who knows what may happen in the future.

[jonnyb1970]

cracking barbel mate! Where abouts @ killerton did u get that beauty?

[Baz T]

Great barbel - didnt know the Culm had them to that size - Well done

[poltimore]

That's a fantastic fish! I'm after one of those beauties myself.

I had a six and half pound chub from the Killerton stretch this week on breadflake. I fished the large bend just down from the car park at the bridge below the mill. I know there are some big barbel in there because I was talking to a guy who hooked one but lost it the week before.

There are a few nice swims on that stretch. I believe that on that large left bend, where it slackens off, there are some nice carp and tench too.

I'm thinking about small pellets as a feed with a halibut pellet hookbait on a hair to tempt the barbel/chub?

Breadflake/crust is great but there are thousands of minnows and gudgeon in there constantly attacking the hookbait!

[jonnyb1970]

Biggest chub i had was 3lb down past the weed raft. Was out there on Sunday & a pike bit my feeder off on the left hand bend. I'll have to go out big fish hunting!

[poltimore]

It's certainly fishing well at the moment. Lots of good swims to choose from. Reed raft? Where's that?

[Maddison_Twatter]

Very well done m8 , fight like demons dont they ?