Huge River Ouse barbel banked
One of the biggest barbel from the Great Ouse in recent times has been added to the impressive list of specimens for Tony Gibson.
The Chairman of the Northampton Specimen Group fished a short evening session for a 15lb 15oz cracker.
The Nash and Dynamite Baits-backed specialist backed it up with another barbel of 10lb 11oz and chub of 6lb 13oz and 6lb 10oz.
“I’ve found that the best way to approach this venue is to keep your options open by covering plenty of water and trickling a bit of bait into each likely-looking swim,” said Tony.
“I’d advise anyone not to fish too light when you know a big bonus barbel is a possibility.
“I was so pleased to see such a big, good-looking Ouse barbel because they are so rare these days.This is possibly one of the largest banked from the venue in the last couple of years,” he added.
All Tony’s fish were caught on Dynamite Complex-T boilies stopped with a piece of Enterprise Tackle imitation pop-up corn.
“This not only stops smaller fish pulling the boilies off the hair, but also adds some buoyancy to the hookbait,” Tony said.
Before each cast he either nicked a small PVA bag full of broken boilies on to his size 7 hook or wrapped a piece of matching paste around the lead on his simple running rig.
