Your ultimate Barbel Rigs...

Whats your favourite rigs for fooling gin clear water barbel ?
Whats your favourite rigs for barbel in a rageing up and running flooded river ?

Be interesting to see a few photos of end tackle different people use from summer to winter on both a clear and flooded river....

Ultima fluoro for gin clear rivers - straight through to no. 10 wide gape. Raging rivers I use Stealth skin hooklink and use up to 5oz grippas to hold bottom.

On clear rivers Gardner Subterfuge Fluoro With Gardner Trickster Heavy Braid Combi Rig...

For the floods its Sufix Camo Skin Coated Braid..

Barbelmad are you letting us in on your choices??

Be Lucky
John

Very nice guys, i also use a combi rig in the height of summer as I beleive keeping the end tackle concealed is vital! I use korda IQ flurocarbon in 10/15lb and usuall 16-24inches long and then stripped back suffix sheath skin being knotless kontted to the hook and then a simple back to back grinner knot joining it to the flurocarbon...usually around a inch of the sheath skin and then mould a very big lump of putty around the back to back grinner as I strongly think and agree that this helps to pull the hook home!

On the other hand in floods deadly simple 4/5oz korda grippa lead freerunning with a couple of buffer beads and suffix sheath skin straight through but still add putty! Bait wise i usually stick with curry flavoured spam or a bit of paste round a 10/15mm bait...

Barbelmad agree with you regarding the heavy metal putty over the knot, albright for me though..Yes and knltless knotted to an esp t 6..

Havent seen many floods on the Colne for a while though

Be Lucky
John

Clear water:
Fulling mill fluorocarbon hooklink (from 7lb to 15lb dependent on situation) size 6 to 12 Solar wide gape extra strong hook. KD rigged hair, length dependent on whether I`m expecting chub and barbel (tight to the shank if chub are expected), inline Atomic dung bomb (1.5 to 5oz) on 24" of leadcore and free running flying backlead.

Flood water:
Any old baling twine, heavy ironmongery and a big ball of stink.

Mic