Whilst on a whistle-stop fishing tour of the UK, visiting and fishing with some of his social media contacts, I managed to spend a few hours on the banks of the Warwickshire Avon with Alessio, aka on instagram as tiber_angler. He is an Italian angler who loves to fish in the style that UK anglers favour.<br />We settled in to the "barbel swim", as Alessio is a passionate barbel angler, and set our stall out to catch our whiskered friends.<br />The river conditions were perfect, the Avon slowly rising with a fresh influx of warm rain water that had been falling for the previous few days, infusing the water with a tinge of colour.<br />Alessio baited up with hemp and boilie chops using a bait-dropper in the faster flow whilst I went with my usual groundbait and pellet tactics.<br />Alessio's barbel PB was 7lb 11oz that he had caught a few days previously whilst fishing with Richard "the_barbel_ninja" on the Severn. I was convinced that, if we managed to catch one from the moody Avon, he would break it as this stretch does not throw up too many below that size.<br />The waiting began....<br /><br />Thanks for watching and tight lines.<br /><br />Nic<br /><br />All music in this video is courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
