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Today's guest has the accolade of being the current hold of the ratified carp British record.

The monster carp known as the parrot weighed 68 pounds and 1 ounces.

As well as his record fish, he's caught numerous other highly sought after carp,

including Wellington Parks, the Turtle and Bruno from Dinton Pastures.

This all being done while only fishing one night per week.

All in all, our guest is a straight talking honest guy who I could have quite easily spent

hours talking to.

The podcast welcomes Dean Fletcher.

Wow. Dean Fletcher The Thinking Tackle podcast I mean do you ever

And always say, you know,

those bassers on the voice never turned round for me.

Maybe I should have another go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they got something wrong there, yeah. But no. Well, you know that you've got a ship voice. I know I've got a shit voice. Right. Yeah. That's a bastard, though, aren't it? Well, yeah. When you're singing, do you know, that sounds really, really good.

It's like when you used to go clubbing.

That was the best answer there.

Yes.

Just as well, no one took any videos of your dancing on your way there. If it's how you feel, you can, you know, you could feel like John Travolta. You know, it doesn't matter, does it? As long as you feel... Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

So your lack of singing ability then is that... If people weren't telling you that, would you think possibly that you could...

I know.

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