Barbel Fishing Is Easy - If You Get This Right!

Learn more about barbel fishing with Adam Rooney, captor of countless double figure barbel and top boy at Guru Fishing.

I created Fishing Tutorials to help people learn about fishing and catch more fish! Watch big films on my main channel: @fishwithcarl

[gavincorbett]

Good content and information as always carl...in my personal barbel fishing I always go with the Des Taylor approach and bait up for an hour before I wet any lines then feed small pouch fulls of pellets every 15 minutes or so...works well for me 🙂

[ChatoEditsIdk]

UNDER RATED CHANNEL IM 14 IM TRYING OUT FISHING WITH MY UNCLE SOON HE IS A PROFESIONAL AND IVE LEARNED ALOT WITH YOUR CHANNEL TOO KEEP IT UP DUDE!

[georgerhodes]

Watching while sorting my gear for tomorrow thanks for the content mate 🎣👍

[colinmuddimer]

I have been watching your instruction videos for a while now.
Your method and style of communication are, in general, clear and understandable. You support your audience, rather than a number of other video-makers who use the medium to show how good they are rather than make the subject their prioity. Well done. I have learnt an amount from you, and I've been fishing for 40+ years (badly, but....).
You do a great job.
If you ever want to do a video on a not very good river which has a great deal of weed clogging the waterway, please come to the SUFFOLK Stour near to Sudbury, and see what I have to try to cope with. I have two knackered knees, so I am definitely a stationary angler, and I often have little choice of local locations due the the ability to get there. I have found nothing relevant on ANY fishing channel/group. Fancy a challenge?
Ta muchly.

[Eligoodchild]

Hi Carl can you please make a video of all the rod setups you use for which occasions many thanks 😊

[Martyn-NFFC]

Brilliant content, great that you covered fish care too.

[mikestout]

Brilliant this carl. As always very informative and just makes you want to get out there. I started two years ago at fisheries and park lakes using advice from people like yourself. Since i have had some great days on the Shropshire union canal. I like how natural baits such as maggot were mentioned. A good friend of mine who has helped me on my journey once said he would fish the Severn for barbel. This was late 80s to early 90s. He would find a peg and stick to it. 5 pints of maggots in before a rod! Large roach, bream and chub would come out first but with continuous feeding they would leave and make way for a good session on the barbel. Great to see these tactics you guys are sharing as my river fishing adventure is starting this year. Now closed season is over. Thank you

[titchworld]

great video carl and lots of info :) I was wondering if there is a good way to figure out what size feeders and leads i would need to fish somewhere like the Trent? also if I do have the wrong size on is it obvious that I'm not holding bottom? thanks :)

[howardbradley]

Want to say a quick thank you to both of you, two days ago I went coarse fishing for my first ever time, after watching your full 'fishing for beginners', float fishing, and 'knot tieing' playlists... it worked a treat!!

I went in the 'beginner' pool out of 4 pools in my area, and managed to catch a 5lbs carp within quite literally a couple of minutes! I also managed to catch a 4lbs bream, and multiple smaller tench, roaches and a tiny gudgeon!! Honestly you made fishing so much easier for me as a 25yr old who has wanted to try it sincw I was about 16 but didn't know where to start!! I can now join my mates confidently!😊🫶🫶

[daz]

Great content and spot on with these lads approach to barble fishing. Off on the Severn for two weeks this Saturday it's on hellava drug.

[tomz]

this is perfect, just got on my local club ticket and they have a strech of the trent :O will be taking this video with me. thankyou both for the amazing video <3

[BasJon]

Awesome video, I cant wait to do my first Barbel session, Can I ask a question please as I have just started fishing again from a 25 year lay off, the question is I am method feeding using a size 10 hair and the bait I am using is a 8mm pop up, the last 2 sessions I keep catching fishing usually bream and they are getting hooked in their side fin, I have never experienced this before and I have done this 3 times in 2 sessions thank you for any

[michaelboyle]

Great video guys with some awesome tips tight lines 🎣👍👍

[iamnotabutter]

Nice job mate!
Always place a smile on everyone's face!

[ThyOdn]

I didn’t know we were getting a new tutorial vid !!!

[liamstevens]

Loved it. Great ending too!!! That's a barbel, but bigger 😂.

[BritishFisherboy]

Can you do a video about handling small to medium sized pike I know u did a video about pike but it was quite big and it's way different with medium sized pike

[Rich-srhr]

This video really helped I used everything in this video river feeder mix and rig halibut and got my pb barbel last night 9:26pm I uploaded pic on profile 😂15lb

[ControlAroundRockLines]

How long do you leave a rig in position? As in how long in flow does that feeder typically last before all the bait is washed out & is no longer affective? So basically roughly how often should you recast? I appreciate this will be dependent on the strength of the flow & the mix of the bait. But a rough idea?
Also what size hooks?
Sorry if you did answer these in the video. I'm watching as I'm typing so I may not have got there yet...

[PolishTerrarian]

I have a question that would need to be answered quickly if you can carl.

Im fishhing a huge lake that has bream tench eel pike zander catfish carp and etc.
Ive been trying to catch some bigger fish but ive been only getting tiny bream. Could you help me out on how to catch maybe bigger bream?