#023 - Bobby Zamora, my fishing revealed
Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast
Korda Developments Ltd
4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Bobby Zamora, former Premier League striker and England international, joins Simon Pitt on the podcast to discuss all things angling and his footballing career. He even gives a behind the scenes insight to what happened when him and Ali Hamidi went fishing on the Amazon River during Korda's The Big Fish Off series. The pair also discuss in-depth Bobby's love for carp fishing, which has seen him fish all around the world at a variety of different venues landing carp in excess of 40lbs!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast. If you like this show, then please subscribe and leave a review. |
| 0:12.3 | Now on the podcast, we look forward to talking to some of the most accomplished and knowledgeable anglers around. |
| 0:17.6 | And when the opportunity arises to combine a fishing conversation with something a little |
| 0:21.6 | extra, we jump at the chance. Today's guest is an ex-Premier League footballer who has scored |
| 0:27.1 | 152 career goals and has two England camps to his name. Having now retired from football |
| 0:33.3 | means more spare time to enjoy his fishing. And as anyone who follows him on Instagram |
| 0:37.6 | will know, he's been catching some very impressive fish. |
| 0:41.7 | So it's a privilege to welcome on the show, Bobby Zamora. |
| 0:48.0 | The Thinking Tackle Podcast. |
| 0:51.3 | Can he take it? |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah, he can take it, yeah, but yeah, yeah. He ain't got the best teeth in the world, so he used to just batter his teeth. Oh, really? And then he had some veneers put in, and it's even better, do you know what I mean? It's like, from baby teeth to fucking big horse teeth. What are you like in the dressing room then? Are you? Yeah, I love having a laugh and a joke. So are you at the forefront of everything then, are you? |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, yeah, used to be, yeah. |
| 1:15.3 | Yeah, enjoyed the banter of the changing room. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, that's probably the thing I miss most, really. |
| 1:20.6 | Just going on every day. |
| 1:22.2 | I mean, yeah, you just get paid to have a, |
| 1:25.5 | do something you love and have a laugh and a joke. It's like incredible. Do the footballers, being a footballer, do you just grow into that as well, do you think as well? Yeah, so for a majority of them, yeah, that's all they've had in their life. That's all they've ever done. So you're used to a lot of banter and, yeah, jokes, tricks and... What about the ones that can't take it then? |
| 1:45.2 | That's what I was about to ask. |
| 1:45.9 | Who was the worst? |
| 1:47.5 | Just couldn't laugh at it. |
| 1:53.8 | There's a few miserable fuckers, but they all, everyone really had a little bit, |
| 1:55.1 | had a little Samink about them. |
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