Heavy rain may not be the nicest weather to fish in, but it can certainly bring the big barbel out to play – as Ian Green found during a session on the River Trent, where he landed this 18lb 8oz cracker.
It fell to a 20mm dumbell boilie fished over a loosefeed of mixed-sized boilies, which he introduced with a catapult.
After casting out, Ian had to regularly recast due to debris coming downriver.
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At around 12.30pm, he had a little tap on one of his rods, before it hooped over and he lifted into what felt like a dead weight.
All hell then broke loose as the huge fish stripped 70yds of line from Ian’s reel before he could subdue it!
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