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Now, the big olor of fishing for me growing up was the magical and inspiring stories told

by my angling heroes.

Today's guest is every bit the great storyteller of years past.

Plus he's one of the very best big carp anglers of the moment.

And right at the beginning of the show, we've got an exclusive story about a very recent

and special

capture from today's guest. The podcast welcomes Tom Stokes.

The Thinking Tackle Podcast.

Following our first podcast with Tom, he went away to Farnham Flint and only goes and catches the biggest common cup in the lake.

So we kindly asked Tom if you come back into the studio to give us the exclusive story on his most recent capture.

So here it is. I hope you enjoy it. Tom, there's been a twist. At the end of the last show, we said,

when you catch something else, come back on the show again. Well, actually, it wasn't very long

until you caught your target fish, was it? It wasn't at all. Yeah, didn't expect to be back this quick,

but there you go, here, right I'm yeah so you were fishing on

Flynn and there was there's a big common in that lake there is there is indeed

yeah not one that I can totally expected to catch to be honest because it's it's

a bit you know it's a very rare fish I think you know it's 18 months since the last time it's

been caught or they're about um maybe 14 months um but yeah um obviously last time we were here

um well it was it was the weekend after you came on this podcast it was so you sent me a picture through on this. I think it was the Sunday. It was like, you don't waste too much time there. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I didn't expect that. Really didn't expect it to come that quick. But yeah, I think the trip before I'd come here last, I'd right and I'd had I'd had three but three goodens but they were all repeats unfortunately then I came here that Friday left here on the Friday night and um yeah drove down there late on the Friday by the time I got there it was it was too late to settle really. Plus the lake was packed, absolutely packed out. It's been super busy.

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