Gut Bucket!

[Chris Plumb]

Managed my first barbel of the summer yesterday evening - never seen a barbel with such a stomach on it!

 

 

C.

[Steve Walker]

I'm thinking Ligula intestinalis.

[Chris Plumb]

OK Steve - you had me googling - I just thought it had been gorging on a mixture of anglers bait and crayfish - the gut was very solid. But you reckon some kind of tapeworm????

 

C.

[philocalist]

I'm thinking Ligula intestinalis.

 

I'm thinking too many boilies .....

[Steve Walker]

That distension of the abdomen looks too pronounced to me. Maybe it is just fat, but it doesn't look right.

[Tigger]

Well done Chris , what a good size for the first barbel of the season ! It looks like it's eaten some of it's shaol mates lol. Did you get it during a trotting session or was it legering ?....you do know that leger caught fish are like foul hooked ones...they don't count .

[Chris Plumb]

That distension of the abdomen looks too pronounced to me. Maybe it is just fat, but it doesn't look right.

It didn't look right which is why I put the piccy up. And no, Tigger caught ledgering I'm afraid - only had 1 barbel on the float in the last 2 seasons alas....

 

C.

[Steve Walker]

I'm more shocked by this ledgering revelation than the Zeppelin-barbel - have the tabloids been informed of this scandalous event?

[Phone]

All,

 

I hope she went back. That is the F1 barbel intendended to promote more barbel fishing. It is a cross between your "spawn bound" carp and paunchy barbel. That's what all barbel will look like in another generation or two.

 

Phone

[Tigger]

It didn't look right which is why I put the piccy up. And no, Tigger caught ledgering I'm afraid - only had 1 barbel on the float in the last 2 seasons alas....

 

C.

 

 

I was only jokin' Chris, still good on leger gear. I wonder if the fish really has got a parasite or a health problem and if it might be a serious problem that's maybe damaged their numbers in your area / river since your struggling to get any. I find it a little strange that you used to do well catching them and then they should suddenly dissapear..