What is Bait?
Food is placed on a hook or in a net, trap, or fishing area to entice fish or other animals as prey.
Best Bait For Barbel In Uganda
Commonly, Barbel catches on luncheon meat, boilies, pop-ups, wafters, maggots, and paste. Pay attention to bait color.
Black is a traditional barbel bait color, and though good on occasion, barbel can prefer other colors. All bait can be improved with an attractant like Sensate fish accelerant.
What are the best conditions for barbel in rivers?
Look for streamy, shallow water in the summer, and don’t be put off by a depth as little as 50cm.
If there’s cover provided by either weed or overhanging trees, so much the better, as that’s where you’ll find the fish.
What is the habitat of the barbel fish?
Its favored habitats are the so-called barbel zones in fast-flowing rivers with gravel or stone bottoms, although it regularly occurs in slower rivers and has been successfully stocked in still waters.
Barbel are very abundant in some rivers, often seen in large shoals on rivers such as the Wye.