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Mon 10 Oct 2009How to lift the barbels
ANGLING NOTES:I HAVE PLEASANT memories, from when I lived in London many years ago, of coarse fishing on the River Thames. Setting up camp on the riverbank at Hampton Court became a weekend summer pastime, fishing for bream, dace and roach by day and for shy, sporty barbel by night.
Of course, the elusive barbel was the main attraction. Ledgering with worms in the fast-running water, the magical sound of the bite alarm in darkness signalled a run to last several minutes before banking the whiskered fish of perhaps 4.5kg (10lb). To catch three in one session was considered an exception.
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