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Now, today's guest is one of the true characters of the sport

and is the offer of two successful books based around his carp fishing life.

Among his many angling accomplishments was the catcher of Basil from Yately's North Lake.

A cart regarded by many as one of the most famous to swim in English waters.

On top of this, he's had considerable

successes on numerous different lakes that you might or might not be familiar with. Never afraid

to wear his heart in his sleeve and with a wealth of experience and great stories. I'm delighted

to welcome on to today's show, the one and only Mickey Gray.

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I'm lakes, I've been and I sort of done a few years and then disappeared and then come back and done another couple of years and disappeared.

So it varies.

You know, some places I'll just do a couple of years.

I'll either catch a lot or I'll just catch a big one, one or the other normally. And then, but I'm not one for just catching every single one. Once I've had enough, it normally depends on who's getting on there, you know, what sort of pressure it's going to get and all that sort of stuff. Once I see it go in a certain way, I don't like that's it, I'm off. which is why all the lads always say how come you're on Dinton

how long sort of stuff. Once I see it go in a certain way, I don't like, that's it, I'm off. Which is why all the lads always say, how come you're on Dinton? How have you lasted for three years? I don't realize it was like, I didn't realize it was quite that bad, actually. It is for me, but other anglers say that a lot of the other waters, there's a lot of waters in Essex that I like it. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of waters like it.

But I'm not, I've never been used to it.

It's never been my thing at all.

And I've never come up against anything like it. You know, the quality of anglers and that is just unbelievable. Oh, you should have fished, have they? Yeah. That would have been right up your street, that? Yeah, yeah.

I should have done.

I think with there though, it's like,

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