Under The W Avon

With nearly 2hrs of underwater footage compiled from 2 days of filming this is my most ambitious project to date. I hope you all find it entertaining and hopefully provoke a few thoughts about how you go about your barbel fishing as well.

[@mattiemclean9882]

I think you should edit this Paul as it is interesting in places, especially the last 15 minutes... good effort tho

[@warbob2430]

very good video. Interesting to see how the fish feed. What I have come up with this video aswell as stalking barbel is that it's likely that the barbel have a suspicion of what the hookbait is..it acts a little differently, but their instinct of having to feed takes over and they take the bait. I've stalked many barbel that took the hookbait when all the loosefeed was eventually eaten by them.. You could see in the video the barbel knew something was wrong with that hookait, and it still put it's mouth right near it. A couple of more barbel in the area, and it's likely you would of had a take, not because the set up is so great, or because the bait is so wonderful, but because the barbel are feeding machines. The only reason why barbel are harder to catch now is not because they're so smart, but because the quantity of the fish has diminished over the years. Another thing I do is use roughly the same size loosefeed as the hookbait. For example I will put in some 4mm pellets, but I would also use just as much 10mm pellets if that's what i'm using as the hookait. Might aswell get them feeding on the hookbait kind of feed. For your long hair rig missing the take, you could just reel in a little bit. This is what match fisherman do when they use long rigs to feeders to straighten it out. I'm sure you already knew that though.
What was also interesting is that even with pike in the area, the dace and roach were feeding quite comfortably. It just shows you that fish lose their inhibition when they're on the feed. Same goes for barbel, which is why we catch them LOL... They're just feeding machines.
Good video.

[@arthurjamal4948]

i realize I am kind of off topic but does anybody know of a good place to watch newly released tv shows online?

[@juniorjake3818]

@Arthur Jamal flixportal :D

[@arthurjamal4948]

@Junior Jake Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it !!

[@juniorjake3818]

@Arthur Jamal You are welcome =)

[@tomwinterfishing9065]

Can't wait to watch this all the way through! Given me an idea too... ;) Thanks Paul!

[@michaelbeale42]

Great work matey. Maybe they were just preoccupied on the pellet and not interested in the larger bait, it does happen a lot, hemp is well known for it so why not pellets. Some clonking roach there matey would be nice to get a few of those out.

[@paulfloyd6790]

thanks.

[@paulfloyd6790]

instagram.com/p/BRVabR6gVXn/?

[@roland7794]

Great footage Paul, very pleasant to watch! 👌👌

Hello you happy new year