Welcome to the Thinking Teckle podcast. If you like this show then please leave a rating and review as we'd love to hear your thoughts. Now, Gigantica Lake in France is regarded as one of the best big cart fisheries in the world with free fish currently weighing over 80 pounds. On this episode of the podcast, the lake's owner gives his own colourful account of what it's like to own a lake full of Monster Carp.

The podcast welcomes back Mr. Corder himself, Danny Fairbrass.

We'd just like to say that these podcasts were recorded prior to the COVID-19 UK lockdown

the thinking tackle podcast quite a big stick and he said yeah one of those would explode and it would cover the size of

the table yeah you know so it was a you're not talking these little you know pia bag that's gone

completely out of favor isn't i know i said to him i used it since and he's not really yeah single grain

of maize or a bit of plastic over the top wasn't it yeah yeah so. Yeah, so interesting. We need to... Is that how he caught it, the Conningbrook fish? Yeah, it changed his results on his last season. Yeah, he caught six fish. I think he said six fish when he started using that. Right. Yeah. Using sweet corn casters. I remember reading about it in the book. Yeah, I remember reading about it. I remember talking

to him about it because I go in the tackle box all the time, you know, leave someone that I've had

huge respect for, you know, the whole time and, you know, he was, he was there at the very first time

I went into tackle box and had my leads to sell. You know, he was the guy that said, do you mind if I just weigh them to make sure they're okay? And I was like, go ahead. I know they're absolutely bang on. You know, and only one out of the 12 was actually right and all the others were wrong. You know, and Lee, I can remember Lee saying, Dan, I'm so sorry. Not not Dan, because he didn't know me, but I'm so sorry, because I was just absolutely mortified. I had a van full of leads that I couldn't sell, you know, and it was, it was in the tackle box, but they've become our biggest customer. Yeah, what happened to those leads? Melted them all down, started again. Yeah. Wasted? Well, it would have been wasted if I'd thrown them away. But yeah, one at a time. Just in the stainless steel dog bowl of molten lead. Oh, my God. Holding the swivel, one at a time. Lead's blowing up everywhere because they sometimes suck a little bit of water in and water and lead do not mix

and yeah, coated all the underside of my kitchen cabinets in lead

coated me in lead as well and...

You learn from that one.

Yeah.

How did you learn to not let that happen again?

Well, I had to basically reduce the size of the cavities in the moulds to make the lead lighter because they're all overweight, where I'd stupidly calculated the increments in a 2D fashion, not a 3D fashion, and got all the measurements completely wrong.

So a 3-rayed 3.4,

and basically what you basically did was shaved the faces of the mould off

to make the hole inside smaller,

which reduced the weight, which made them okay.

And if you look at the originals,

they were ever so slightly oval in cross-section

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