Ouse barbel is too big for the net! - Derek Olsen
“I’d heard that barbel were being caught from the Yorkshire Ouse at Linton so I took my brother Richard there to see if we could catch one.
“We got into our pegs for 8am and I fed a few cubes of meat around three rodlengths out, before casting in my free-running lead carrying a hair-rigged chunk of Spam.
”At 1pm my rod tip smashed round and this barbel ran 40 yards downstream towards a willow tree!
“I managed to turn the battle into open water, and 10 minutes later the biggest barbel we’d ever seen surfaced.
“I started to shake! Richard had the net ready and it went in first time, although it was too big for our net really!
“The beautiful fish weighed 14lb 7oz.”
Derek Olsen and his 14lb 7oz Yorkshire Ouse barbel