Barbel bashing with big bro

Last night on the spur of the moment my brother james and I decided to go out fishing for abit as we hadn't for a short while, we ended up roving up a river nearby where we spent alot of time waiting but when the fish started to get interersted we knew it, we met up with one of james' mates (stu) who lived nearby and decided to tag along, first my brother had a barbel weighing in at 7lb 3oz which was really good for both of us to see, staright after james put his back my rod bent double as another barbel stripped line from my spool, fighting for about 4 minutes the barbel was landed, weighing at a slightly bigger 7lb 5oz which to beat my brother was a great feeling and to be honest both fish were perfect quality no marks or scratches. everytime i catch a decent fish barbel or otherwise i get over happy which is how i should feel when landing a fish like that!


below: picture taken by (Stu) consists of me and my brother as a tribute to his set-up which landed the beast.