doebel
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Hi Everybody,
I need some advice in respect of barbel migration and their possibility to establish.Our Club manage a small tibutary to the river Main (rhine system), known to hold barbel well into double figures.
The river has an average width of 6m and a depth of 3ft. And some Pools up to 6ft. THe bottom is sand with some shallow gravel runs.
Weed growth is sparse , but gettIng better with some potamogeton increasingly seen in the shallows, after renaturalisation and widening of the river bed.
Chub and Dace are abundant, brown trout established as well as stickleback, loach, eels...
Since two years we Stock yearlings of grayling and it see ms to work.
LAst sunday I went trotting with my mate and we got grayling, chub, dace, asp, roach, bleak and a minnow on maggots.
I fished it quite offen for chub with reasonable result on luncheon meat, but never had a barbel nor have I seen one.
Why they are not migrating from the big river (at least at spawning time) into the tributary?
Do barbel easily overcome obstacles like chub or roach by jumping weir Pools and steps......there are few on the way up to the gravelly stretches.
I doubt it , but I have no experience. I sugessted to stock barbel well up the river to establish them. Good idea?
Thanks for you help!
Best regards Chris from Germany
....and happy Xmas
I need some advice in respect of barbel migration and their possibility to establish.Our Club manage a small tibutary to the river Main (rhine system), known to hold barbel well into double figures.
The river has an average width of 6m and a depth of 3ft. And some Pools up to 6ft. THe bottom is sand with some shallow gravel runs.
Weed growth is sparse , but gettIng better with some potamogeton increasingly seen in the shallows, after renaturalisation and widening of the river bed.
Chub and Dace are abundant, brown trout established as well as stickleback, loach, eels...
Since two years we Stock yearlings of grayling and it see ms to work.
LAst sunday I went trotting with my mate and we got grayling, chub, dace, asp, roach, bleak and a minnow on maggots.
I fished it quite offen for chub with reasonable result on luncheon meat, but never had a barbel nor have I seen one.
Why they are not migrating from the big river (at least at spawning time) into the tributary?
Do barbel easily overcome obstacles like chub or roach by jumping weir Pools and steps......there are few on the way up to the gravelly stretches.
I doubt it , but I have no experience. I sugessted to stock barbel well up the river to establish them. Good idea?
Thanks for you help!
Best regards Chris from Germany
....and happy Xmas