Barbel are known to give totally savage bites when they take an angler's bait, but that wasn't the case with this Trent specimen which registered just a "single bleep" on the captor's bite alarm.
Dean Bradshaw was the lucky angler who caught the stunning 16lb 4oz fish, with a homemade bait fished over a bed of hemp and pellets.
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"I received a single bleep on the bite alarm and noticed the rod-tip nodding, so lifted into a fish that slowly moved up the river," he told us.
"Once in the edge, it rolled, slapping the water with its tail. Back into the flow it went, battling steadily out there before being slipped gracefully into the net by my friend, Samo.
"It turned out to be a real beauty."
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