Many of you will have followed John Bailey’s recent #BarbelChallenge when an Angler’s Mail reader challenged John to catch a Wensum Barbel in a week-long-challenge. John’s written about the results in the Mail and he’ll be adding to that here on the website very soon.

We loved the idea, and threw down the gauntlet to anyone fishing in the same period to catch a barbel of their own. Many of you did and it was fantastic to hear from you all.

Last week we spoke to our resident blogger Jimmy Sallis about his personal challenges. He revealed that he’s never caught a River Carp from the River Arrow – the river he’s fished all of his life. Naturally at this point we rubbed our hands together and demanded he set out immediately on a #CrabtreeChallenge.

We’re giving him just one week to produce the goods, no pressure then!

You can support Jimmy via twitter (@jimmysallis) and why not join in the challenge yourself? Tweet @mrcrabtree using the #CrabtreeChallenge and tell us how you’d go about it.

What are your personal challenges for Winter 2013?