An old fishing partner of mine and I used to fish the Kennet, among others, in Berkshire for barbel. He'd catch barbel and I'd only ever catch chub. So I quit fishing for barbel and concentrated on "wasting my time catching chub" as he used to call it... until I pulled one out that pushed 7lBs, on a free lined lob worm near Sulhampstead.
Happy days
