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Now, I know most of you must be fed up by now with the restrictions that currently affect our daily lives.

The one ray of hope being, the government's decision to allow fishing back, something that I'm sure has brought delight to all of you.

On this episode of the podcast,

we have one of the nicest men in cart fishing and someone I'm sure all of you would have heard of.

He's one of the famous trio from ITV4's Monster Carp series and also a prolific carp angler in his own right. It's fair to say he lives the carp fishing dream.

The podcast welcomes Neil Spooner.

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I know of, I think it was £4, 6 ounces when it went in,

and it was something unbelievable, like six years later,

it was a 40-pounder.

A bit of a freak as i think a lot

of big big carp are they're sort of genetic genetic freaks what what do you reckon happen to

do you think just it just it's just a greedy fish that yeah well as it turns out all those three

fish that he got they're all in this little pond they're all stunted they all looked if if you

look at the before and after pictures you you'd never see them, it's like an acorn

grown into a mighty oak, you can't imagine it happening.

But there's something special about the water quality.

It's constantly being drained down and fresh water pumped in at certain times, and I think

that's a big thing for a lot of venues lots

of venues that, lots of venues that consistently produce big fish, I think they often have a

change of water. They don't necessarily need to be big. They don't necessarily need to look amazing,

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