#013 - Iain Macmillan, the real Ting Tong
Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast
Korda Developments Ltd
4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 187 minutes
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Summary
Iain Macmillan is a highly respected carp angler who has been prominent in the modern carp fishing scene for many years. He has enjoyed considerable success on some of the country's best-known waters, including Wellington Country Park and the Essex Manor. Iain works in the angling trade, and has over the years, worked with some of the world's leading fishing companies. He has also been a regular contributor to various angling publications, programmes and films, including Korda's Thinking Tackle Series.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast. If you enjoy our show, please subscribe to this podcast and leave a rating and review as we'd love to hear your thoughts. Now I'm sure for many of you listening to this show, carp fishing is more than just a passion. At times, it's an obsession. And sometimes when we're in the midst of tracing our personal dreams, it's easy to lose |
| 0:21.3 | track of what's really important in life. Today's show brings home the importance of grasping |
| 0:26.7 | every moment of life and sharing love with those around you. It's with great admiration that we |
| 0:32.4 | welcome on the show, Ian McMillan. The Thinking Tackle podcast |
| 0:39.7 | And I just thought as long as you be yourself |
| 0:42.4 | Then |
| 0:43.2 | That's what Danny said |
| 0:46.0 | You know people either love you or hate |
| 0:47.3 | They won't they hate you |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah |
| 0:48.5 | And then Ali |
| 0:49.5 | My phone went a few days later |
| 0:51.4 | And it was Ali |
| 0:52.2 | And I thought oh God |
| 0:53.7 | This isn't good And he was really complimentary to the point where I thought he was actually taking the piss. Yeah. Because he was being too nice. Again, men aren't nice to one another, or not. Men don't do that sort of thing, as today has already true. Especially here. Especially here, yeah. But yeah, he said, oh, you're really good you came across as as honest and |
| 1:12.0 | professional and calm and just went from there how many did you do i think i did three or four thinking |
| 1:17.4 | tables yeah but i did we did a lot of filming for the free DVDs as a um at gigantica um and i did |
| 1:26.1 | some filming for the england versus europe gigantic of as well. This was in the days where Dan had only had the lake a couple of years. And it was basically a case of if you could put as many boilies out as you could, you'd catch more, well, we would anyway. We did really well. He's been English style of fishing, throwing stick, three rods at a certain range, |
| 1:45.0 | and the European lads really struggled. |
| 2:01.0 | And we had a pretty shit draw, to be honest, at most of their matches, but we still wipe the floor with them. Just because you can put more bait out. Well, just, I think we were, at the time, I don't think it's like that now. I think there's plenty of people that are equally as. Yeah, because they've been educated by the English market, I think. |
| 2:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.5 | There's a lot of very capable angles in. |
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