We’ve heard about GTs that eat seabirds – if you haven’t, they do! – but take a look at this video of Barbel doing their best to eat pigeons in France and Spain. I want to see this at home!

Hunting Mud
Team FlyBru seems to get more fishing done than most of us and while we sit behind office desks these guys get to witness mother
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Oof. Nice video. As a point of pedantry, those are wels catfish, not barbel.
Hi Rory.
Yip, I know that those are catfish and different to the European “barbus barbus’ and its subspecies – they look very similar to Sharptooth Catfish (Clarias gariepnus) we get all Southern Africa. The Afrikaans (a local language derived from Dutch) language refers to them as “baber” (pronounced: baa-birrr) and therefore us English chaps here in SA have got to calling them Barbel because of the translation similar sounding name! Our bad 🙂
Sorry for the misunderstanding and thanks for pointing it out!
Oh, and those Wels Catfish get big by the looks of things, just looked them up!!!!!
Hey – no worries, didn’t want to come across like a smart-arsed pedant, just thought you’d want to know. I live in London and we had one wash up on the banks of the Thames recently – huge, decomposing thing, initially it was mistaken for a decaying human body. They get HUGE. Anyway, love the site.
R
Not at all. Its always good to get feedback and comments! Stoked you enjoy it!