#047 - Chris Ball, carp fishing's favourite historian
Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast
Korda Developments Ltd
4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 190 minutes
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Summary
Chris Ball is renowned for being one of the most informed carp fishing historians around today. Since the late 1980s, he's written countless articles and had numerous books published on the subject. His most recent book is titled Historical Carp Waters II, detailing famous captures from historic carp waters. Along with his feverish obsession for carp fishing history, he's been catching carp from some country's leading and most historic venues since the 1960s.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Finky Teckle podcast. |
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| 0:20.0 | Today in the studio, I'm joined by Chris Ball. |
| 0:23.8 | Now, Chris is well known in the carp fishing community, |
| 0:27.0 | having fished for carp since the late 1950s, |
| 0:30.4 | and was one of the first members of the British Carp Study Group. |
| 0:34.8 | He's particularly well known as a carp fishing historian and has written extensively |
| 0:39.9 | on the subject since the late 1980s. Some of his notable book titles include King Cartwaters, |
| 0:47.5 | historical Carp Waters, one and two to name but a few. He also helped launch CarpTorpe |
| 0:53.5 | magazine in 1994, which ran all the way until 2018. |
| 0:59.1 | Along with all of this, he's had the pleasure of catching some of the country's most best-loved carp, |
| 1:04.8 | including shoulders from Foxp Paul and Olive from Raysbury No. 1. |
| 1:10.2 | All of these mainly on the surface. |
| 1:12.7 | So welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:14.8 | Chris Ball. |
| 1:27.6 | Chris Ball. we're live, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:33.2 | How are you? |
| 1:33.7 | I'm fine, and to all the people out there in the land watching this, |
| 1:39.4 | you needn't stand up. |
| 1:40.5 | What an intro, it's only me. |
| 1:42.7 | Was it worthy? |
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