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Implantation
One finds it in clear water and on gravel funds. The common barbel is most widespread. It has three cousins who are:
- the southernmost barbel (smaller and with small tasks on the sides)
- the Iberian barbel (much smaller and more tapering)
- the Italian barbel (20 to 40 cm and dress darker than the commun run)
Lifestyle
The barbel prefers the sand and stone funds. It is often nourished the night of invertebrates in shallow water. Like the carp (a cousin of the same family), the barbel uses its to find larvae of insects, worms. Its powerful teeth enable him to also taste crayfish and shrimps of fresh water.
The bridal period is agitated enough. Males and females devote themselves to races without end, side by side. The female digs then a cavity in the gravels and deposits, in several times, 3000 to 9000 eggs with a low depth.
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Scientific name: Bearded bearded
Family:
Other names: , , , , , Bearded - English:
Maximum weight: g
Maximum length: 90 cm
Lifespan: 15 years
Period of abrasion: May at July
Bridge: 9000
The Barbel with its tapering body shows its perfect amendment to the rivers animated by a more or less fast current. According to its implantation, its color which can be different is uniform and slightly clearer on the belly. You will thus find barbels sometimes “gray”, sometimes “greenish”, and sometimes “gilded”. Its muzzle is characteristic and exceeds its mouth clearly. It should be noted that the dorsal fin understands a strongly ossified thorny department.
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The males release then their milt. After 10 to 20 days of incubation, according to the temperature of water, the young alevins hide under the stones, nourish phytoplankton and from then, become digger they feed from larger preys.
Fish
The barbel can sin itself with the long casting. One employment a cane of 50 of a power of 600g, equipped with a fixed drum winch, with a .
One uses a line of 25/100 (possibly less) with a fixed assembly Lord's Prayer . The primer is in end of bracket to 20 cm, and the hook ( 8 with ) in end of line to 30 cm. Maggots, meats or cheese are used as soft foods.
One can also use a long cane from 5 to eters, equipped with a winch, with a reserve of yarn of Nylon 14 to 16/100. The squat float is installed on the yarn of the winch. According to the current, one balances it by a locked . Piles up, long 20 cm, into 10 to 12/100 ends in a strong hook with 18.
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