PB Thames barbel during brutal weather conditions

Laurence Hook was rewarded for fishing through driving wind and rain with a new personal-best barbel of 16lb 12oz from the River Thames.

The Oxfordshire angler cast a cage feeder filled with dampened pellets alongside a Bait-Tech Hybrid barbel pellet hookbait into the centre of the river on a fast-flowing stretch of the Thames near his home.

He said:

“I got absolutely soaked but this fish was more than a reward for sitting through those conditions!” 

Laurence Hook – 16lb 12oz barbel