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What is a barbel?

What is a barbel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
  2. (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
  3. A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
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He pole-fished pellet to the trees for a mixed bag of carp, ide, barbel and chub.
The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.
Chub and barbel may also make the same migrations, although to a lesser extent.
Later on I used the same technique on rivers for chub and barbel and also on lakes for bream.
In winter it was fantastic fishing roach, chub, silver bream and slabs with the odd barbel and carp.
This small section of water holds typical Thames weir stream species such as chub, barbel and dace.

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