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P a g e | 18 opt for using an HNV bait that is very high in present. Its appeal is instant and our only protein, because I use it for a very specific problem is keeping it that way. Meat, especially purpose - singling out big barbel. Important to the processed type, contains high levels of fat that end is also the way in which I apply the bait, which a barbel needs for energy and the fact it in order to maximise the chances of achieving also has a reasonable level of protein (at least as that goal. high as anything it can find naturally), means the barbel will certainly find it appealing. Meat, just However when fishing a water for a one off as with any bait, whether by scent or taste, is session, or very infrequently, or even fishing a capable of becoming recognisable as a danger water regularly with the intention of catching as and the resulting caution will override any many and whatever size of barbel are in front of appeal. This is what happened with luncheon me, I opt for meat every time. There are many meat in years gone by when, after being so types of meat in all its forms, both processed successful, it ended up that you could not by a and natural, I could not list them all here. All will bite on it on many waters, the ‘pink inevitable’ appeal to barbel and all can be flavoured; meat was the popular term! in all its’ forms is, in my opinion, probably the most versatile bait available to an angler! One of the advantages of meat is the ability to add flavours to disguise its basic flavour. I think Probably the first signals that a barbel it was sometime in the early nineties that recognises from meat are the juices that leech people started experimenting with flavouring it off, carrying with them the fatty oils and and it took on a new lease of life, once again immediately indicating to the barbel that it is becoming the deadly bait that it always was. The smelling good food. Whether or not the barbel barbel were not particularly eating it because views the meat with caution depends on the this spicy flavour, or that, was particularly recognition of that particular scent or taste, and appealing – though it must have a degree of obviously will depend on how many times it has appeal, it was because they no longer associated encountered them at the same time as being the scent with danger. They still ate it because caught. of its appeal in the nutrition it offered, which Be in no doubt though, meat in any of its forms - after eating gave that all important ‘feel good processed or not - is one food about which a factor’ that comes after eating good food. barbel needs very little (if any) education, Barbel, though simple creatures, are driven by regarding whether or not a good food source is powerful instincts but, as with any wild creature, are capable of being educated to reject things that present danger, or to accept things that are beneficial. It has to be said that it is a fine line between the two – you, the angler, have to keep up or pay for it in your captures of barbel – simple as that! I guess most of us have been there at one time or another, I know in the past I have. 1997 – Caught on Spicy Luncheon meat