I venture to a backwater off the river Nene (a new river for me) in search of the illusive Barbel & Chub, that reside in it. #fishing #chub #riverfishing #barbel #rivernene #castorbackwater #castor #Korum #Guru #korda #angling #nature
As the bailiff there for many years a few tips i can add that may help is. The first dont camp in a swim in the backwater its better suited to the roving approach you'll have wasted most of the day sitting in one spot. The other anglers are correct there's few barbel up the backwater at present (August) they are in the main river which will take some getting to know and time putting in and also avoiding the countless bream. At this time of the year there's really only a short feeding window around dawn & dusk but later in the season its different. For those reading this and thinking of fishing it there's a no night fishing rule so its 1 hour after sunset as per weather app times. Barbel there go to 16 plus in the winter and there's plenty of other doubles. Its not a bag up venue 1 or 2 a day/session if your lucky being the norm. Its got progressively harder in recent years so will need the time putting in to get to know it and their habits.
I’m hoping to get back in a couple of weeks. I have been back once since this video and found a barbel only for a canoeist to go through the peg after I’d be trickling in some hemp with it swimming over it and then heading off up stream, before coming back again. I’d been try to tempt it for about an hour but it never returned once the canoe had past 🤦🏼♂️ I had the GoPro with me but for some reason there’s wasn’t any sound on the recordings, so it never made it onto here. Good luck, hopefully we both get one this year 🤞🏻
@@AnAverageAngler that’s the thing with the weather at the moment a lot of people Swimming up there, need to get as far away as possible, I’m a relatively new angler going with my stepdad whose fished his whole life and never caught a barbel so it’s our new target only live a few miles away so a nice location for us, haven’t found any yet only been twice and had some good chub both times, going again Saturday so fingers crossed!
