
A 7lb 10oz Barbel back in 2004, at that age I was hooked on Barbel, such a good looking species, with the power to match.
My biggest canal Bream at a shade under 2lb, had many canal Bream but more in the skimmer range of 4ozs to 12ozs and over the recent years I have almost totally neglected the canals.

Barbel at 8lbs 5ozs, one of six Barbel that day all between 6lbs to 8lbs.


A 16lb 14oz Common Carp caught in august 2011 on lobworm
My only river Roach/Bream hybrid at 2lbs 7oz back in 2009
My first Rainbow Trout caught at Holme in Cumbria at 2lbs 6oz
A 15lbs 5oz Common Carp caught on bread flake in 2010
A perfect little linear Mirror Carp.
A good sized Roach at 1 lbs 14 oz.
A chunky koi common Carp at 19lbs 12oz, one of the biggest carp in the clapham common network of lakes. 2011 june
A nice brownie caught on the fly on my 7 ft brook Trout rod with a 4 weight fly line and 3lb tippet, about 10oz
Another good Barbel at 9lbs 13oz caught back in 2009, I managed 9 different 9lb + Barbel with 2 at 9lbs 15oz, all are probably doubles now.
A nice wildy Common Carp from Bushy park - heron pond 16lb 2010.
A proper bushy park slab of 8lb 1oz 2010
A fish that was caught in Turkey in 2009 summertime whilst on holiday caught on bread flake.
First Barbel of the 2012/13 season at 5lb 2oz.
Miniature fish gallery.

Small Barbel around 8oz
Very pretty scaled Mirror Carp
3 little Mirrors from the same stamp
A well proportioned Rudd