I have been fishing now for about 1 year - carp fishing - and I joined Wigan DAA this year to fish heapy but there is a magnet in my head that is pulling me to the River Ribble for barbel. Please ...

Dek is fishing between two pubs on the River Ribble...and wants to know if the stretch between them is any good for barbel and chub. Mark from Bury asks... Have you ever fished the River Ribble for ...

Quiver tip: The very top (often brightly coloured) section of a feeder rod, used to identify bites, which bends and 'quivers' when a fish moves off with the bait. Like the test curve of a rod, quiver ...

Alternatively, by using a barbed metal bait pin, I can top a real caster with a buoyant fake bait. While the price of casters can seem prohibitive, only a pint or two is needed when barbel fishing.

Fishing a weekend session with his brother-in-law, at a stretch of the river they’d not tried before, both were hoping to snare their first barbel. Things didn’t start too promisingly, as their first ...

CATCHING the same heavyweight carp twice in three weeks in a commercial fishery is not that unusual. Carp addicts who bivvy-up with enough electronic wizardry to detect a nuclear sub know the markings ...

A Tremendous barbel weighing 12.4.0 has been caught from a local reach of the Thames by Eynsham-based Dennis Fogden, writes Peter Stone. Denis is enjoying a tremendous season with big chub and barbel, ...