Word Finder - barbel

definition

A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.

definition

Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.

definition

A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.

The few fish include the barbel.

The mouth is rather narrow and provided at each corner with a very small barbel.

Though called the salmon of India, the mahseer is really a species of barbel.

River fish are plentiful enough, but confined to one species, the barbel.

I now know why people find big Barbel so addictive.

Midland angler Top Tip A lot of barbel anglers like to bait up areas and let them settle before casting in.

He also caught four barbel over 5lb, the biggest 7lb 6oz.

I slid gingerly down a dense bank of undergrowth to a spot where a deep slack on the inside might just hold a barbel.

After seeing Dad land a barbel both Joe and Tom wanted to catch one.

That catch included barbel, using the long trotting method with a centre-pin reel.

Fishing a warm and breezy evening, I had barbel from the second I settled my first cast.

The next 3 hours produced 5 more barbel - my best return of the season.

Any of these venues offer the realistic prospect of a double figure barbel.

Records also showed that my bigger barbel had been caught during my first season's fishing.

In these sections where the water runs faster and is quite weedy in the summer months, lie the haunts of very large barbel.

The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.

Immediately I knew I was connected to my first barbel of the season.

A couple of hours passed with nothing until I managed to lose a good barbel in a snag, last cast.

At the start of the river season I had my sights set on catching my first double-figure barbel.

The Bourne is a stalking angler's delight that offers a number of likely looking swims capable of holding chub or barbel.

Carp to over 30 pounds, Barbel to 15 pounds plus and chub to 6 pounds seem commonplace.

Not only do they catch barbel but also perch, big dace and roach to over a pound.

Its body is well-proportioned, rather elongate, and somewhat like that of the European barbel, but covered with very large scales, of which there are only twentyfive or twenty-seven placed along the lateral line; the dorsal fin is armed with a long and strong spine, and the mouth provided with four slender and short barbels.

Fish are abundant, especially coarse fish such as pike, perch, roach, dace and barbel.

Of the twenty-one species of freshwater fish, five are peculiar to the country, but none is of much economic value save the barbel and eel.

The most useful economically are several species of sturgeon and of herring, trout,barbel,chubb,bream, ray,sea-dace, carp, anchovy.

Barbel and yellow mudfish are found in the rivers.

It is a small barbel discovered in Natal by Max Weber, and described by him under the name Barbus viviparus.

For descriptions of other Cyprinids than the carp, see Goldfish, Barbel, Gudgeon, Rudd, Roach, Chub, Dace, Minnow, Tench, Bream, Bleak, Bitterling, Mahseer.

Fish are caught in great numbers in the rivers and marshes, chiefly barbel and carp, and the latter attain so great a size that one is a sufficient load for an ass.

It is distinguished from other species of the genus Gadus by its long pointed snout, which is twice as long as the eye, with projecting lower jaw, and without a barbel at the chin.

Among fish are the barbel, bream and African yellow fish.

Freshwater scale-fish are mostly full of bones, but fine eels and barbel are plentiful in the rivers.