Orange Barbel!!!!

[david87fishing]

has any one here cauht an orange barbel ......like golden tench green tench orange barbel (or golden whatever...) Have been caught and pictured in a copy of the anglers mail few weeks ago, I think it is amazing!
in the article it said about how they were caught in a windsor stretch?
ANY 1 caught one in windsor????


send in your pictures and catch details(i.e where , bait , method etc)

[Norfolkboy]

No, never realised there were orange barbel, do you have a pic?

[fishypaul]

i read the same article,i'm not convinced about it,was the article written on april the 1st by any chance ?

[littleboybream]

probably somebosy making the most of photoshop lol

[Finius]

The only orange barbel I have ever seen was in a museum, it had been the subject of many preservative chemicals in it's time, and so, was decidedly the wrong colour ;)

[BoldBear]

Here are two photos I was shown by a guy on another fishing forum (fishingeye.co.uk); He said that both Barbel where caught from the river Ribble.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8.../1GOLDBARB.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...legoldbarb.jpg

Strange

Another member on another Forum said the following:

"I believe they turn up on the Thames occasionally as well.
If they have not come from the ornamental fish trade then they soon will.
If you don't want to see them disappear keep the location very close to your chest, fish like this are worth a fortune to breeders in the ornamental trade. "

BB

[Wilza]

never heard of it but those pics look genuine to me.

[tjnorton]

Sure look like a nice pic unsure tho if any tinckering has gone on or if there is anyrtthing in the water.

tj

[Catfish Virgin (Still!)]

They do exist (Golden Barbel). Saw one from the Thames many years ago.

But they don't tend to last too long as they are a prime target for predators (both natural and man made).

Pretty sure they are not natural variations, rather more the hand of man in there somewhere along the line.

[ashley07081991]

ive seen 1 of them in angling times think it was last year they are called some thing like banana barbel. they are proper rare.