Well went chub fishing on the lower Medway last week and walked past a young lad with rod pointed skywards and line that would be at home on my pike reels, Enquired how he was doing he informed me he had only just started but had caught a barbel from the same swim the day before. When he reeled in to recast I saw he was fishing with around 3oz lead "fixed" around three inches from his hair rigged boilie, He went on to add that he had just started fishing again but he had taken a photo of the barbel on his camera phone which he then showed me: and there it was around four pounds of lower Medway barbel, Now I believe and will have a go myself. He also had a picture of a cracking perch which he said went 3 1/2 lb from a farmers pond near maidstone which was free fishing but i`ve forgotton the name of the farm doh!!