Calling Specialist Barbel Anglers

[Ed Matysiak]

If you could choose what colour to have your barbel boilies, what would you go for. Something natural like brown or something striking like yellow or pink?

[Gaz51]

Go natural mate, the 'Hi-viz' type attract everything else beside.

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

i do choose!!i use various make and names the clours range from brown to an orangey type(not bright) and one that s beigey/brown,if im fishing clear water i go for the less obtrusive colour i can use.i know ian welch and martin bowler have experimented with entaprise artifical pop-boilies and they are a bright look at me colour,yellow i think.highly flavoured aswell(they hold flavour well as all entaprise baits do).and i know they work.on hard fished barbel rivers doin g something a lil difrent may help.

[J.K]

Hi smell content dull colour is my way of thinking. I still catch the chub but more often than not its the boris that I catch 1st

[Ed Matysiak]

So strong smelling 12mm fishmeal boilies in light borwn it is! Will have a blast next week

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

one word ed...trigga

[J.K]

lol .. I used monster pursuit ... might have to try somthing diff this season even though I have already caught an 7lb 8oz barbel this season

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

niced size fish jk,if you can get it john baker baits are superb aswell.saying that there are times when the maggot/caster and hemp approach will fare better .

[Peter Waller]

Boilies and barbel!! Whatever next? Bivvies on the bankside, carbon rods and bite alarms! Oversized egg beaters and four rods!! Whats wrong with oversize Barbours and floppy hats? Whats wrong with cane and pins? Whats wrong with garden worms? Dash it my good fellows! You'll be using braids, bolt rigs and circle hooks next! Humphhhh, whats the world coming to!

[Lid]

I used breadflake for the barbel I caught on Saturday evening!