#056 - Dave Levy, Fallen Kings
Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast
Korda Developments Ltd
4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Dave Levy has had extensive successes from a magnitude of different waters. Staring from his early angling experiences fishing, Gloucester Park in Basildon, right up to fishing some of the country's best-known waters such as Horton, Sutton, and the Essex Manor. Furthermore, while filming The Great Escape for RidgeMonkey, Dave landed an enormous 88lb mirror carp live on film from Jezero Sumbar in Croatia. During the podcast, we discuss the methods and tactics used in some of his most significant catches.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | If you like this show, then please remember to subscribe so you don't miss our latest episodes. |
| 0:14.6 | And please leave a review too, as we'd love to hear from you. |
| 0:18.6 | Joining me today in the studio is Dave Levy. |
| 0:21.7 | Now, Dave is one of the most knowledgeable, respected and successful carp anglers on the bank today. |
| 0:28.8 | During the show, we discussed everything from his recent successes on the local water |
| 0:33.0 | where he's caught some stunning fish, all the way back to the days when he was a power trooper, |
| 0:37.8 | which includes the story of when he found nearly 500 feet out of an airplane, hit the ground, |
| 0:44.2 | and survived. We also take a more in-depth look into some of his more notable catches, |
| 0:49.3 | where Dave shares some brilliant explanations into his technical approach behind these accomplishments. |
| 0:56.0 | There's a wide array of information during this show for anglers of all abilities, |
| 1:00.0 | plus some great stories and plenty of amazing fish. |
| 1:04.4 | Hope you enjoy the show. The Thinking Tackle Podcast |
| 1:20.1 | Dave Levy, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:22.4 | Thank you, Simon Pitt. |
| 1:24.7 | It's great, having you on the show. |
| 1:26.3 | No one nobody refers back to me like that day but you catch me a little bit |
| 1:29.4 | off guard right back in your court didn't he done that on purpose didn't you yeah at the start of the show |
| 1:35.4 | we always asked for a nice gift well i thought you a couple of gifts do you know what okay i'm looking at the |
| 1:40.8 | gifts on this table and i just see cart fever and i'm glad right I never brought I was going to bring you mine really yeah I've got a cart fever and it looks very much like this one like a Bible that's been read a thousand times and the funny thing is my carp fever I was on a school trip I was about probably 12 and we went into this school trip and we was meant to be looking at history books and I found cart fever. I didn't even know cart books had ever been written. And the teacher said, put it down. And start looking at what you should do. And I actually put it in my bag and nicked it and I've still got it to this day so basildon library if you're |
| 2:18.2 | listening i'm sorry still borrowing it's still going to get a massive bill come through now |
| 2:22.7 | you can imagine it take up the build that's going to come through yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah |
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