Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast.

Today we have a truly fascinating guest on the show.

Danny Fairbrass once dubbed him half man half carp because he pretty much knows everything

you'll ever need to know about them.

This man holds a master of science degree in fish biology and its extensive knowledge is

helped in catch as some of the country's most well-known carp.

Notably, the former British record known as Mary.

He's highly regarded in the carp fishing fraternity

and someone you can't avoid learning from.

I'm excited to welcome on the show, Simon Scott.

The Thinking Tackle podcast.

Yeah, you have to wait for the right light, right levels and everything like that.

Or you take a top off.

Sorry, Simon, could you just put that jumper back on again?

Because in the sequence of you, hooking the fish, you had to jump.

Anyway. It's completely artificial, isn't it? Simon, yes. Welcome to the podcast. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. How are you? Yeah, I'm very well. Looking forward to this, actually. Well, thank you very much for having me. I feel very honored to be in this hallowed studio. Looks all right, doesn't it now? It looks very smart.

And, yeah, I'm following in some very big footsteps.

Mr. Fairbrass, Darrell Peck, I've heard of him. Yeah, some very serious angles of me. Some of our heroes have sat here, so I'm under great pressure to perform. I'm sure you will. okay at the start of the show we always ask for a gift first of all And I think, well, you've kind of covered all bases here with your gift, haven't you, for this show?

Yeah, so my gift, Simon, is a set of pharyngeal teeth from a 35-pounder that died in the Cotswolds a good few years ago.

So the farangil teeth, let me just explain what they are.

Sipranids, all the members of the Cypranid family,

is a very large family of fish,

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