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Readers’ Query : What bait for barbel ?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Nick wrote :
Hi Pat,
Hope you don’t mind me mailing you, have picked up your mail address from the Quest baits website. I have posted a blog along the same lines as this but I was wondering if you could recommend one of Shaun’s baits for barbel along with a pellet. I am fishing the around Bedford this year for the big girls and wanted something they have not seen before and could start putting in to get them used to it.
Any recommendations?
Many thanks,
Nick

Hi Nick

Living in Wolverhampton I am central to a number of rivers and the ones that I have fished for the last two winters (whilst using Quest) were the , the , the and the . None of the stretches are particularly prolific but in general the average size of the fish is pretty good, although nowhere near as good as yours will be on the at Bedford. (more…)