Welcome to the Thinking Tackle Podcast.

Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast.

Joining me today in the studio is one of cart fishing's most recognizable big carp anglers.

But over recent years, there's been a gradual shift in his fishing and his decision to actually make a career from cart fishing.

Gazferram, welcome to the podcast. We're live. How are you?

I'm very well, thank you. Thanks for having me.

No worries. So what are these changes?

Oh, well, I mean, where to start, I suppose, really.

So up until about three years ago now, I was working as a secondary school art and photography teacher.

And yeah, for a kind of long list of reasons, really, that had sort of just come to a natural end.

You know, shall we, shall we say?

It was sort of just, yeah, time for a time for a change.

And carpeting was obviously, you know, the obvious thing to do.

It's something that I've kind of teetered around the edges of being involved with on a kind of a much bigger level for a really

long time really since I was at uni back in sort of the early 2000s, started writing features back

then and, you know, doing photography, you know, for magazines and so on and so forth.

But I'd kind of never really wanted to make a living from it.

I'd always, you know, lots of my friends over the years have done.

Lots of them have gone on to do really good and great things with, with companies.

But I'd always, I'd never really wanted to make my passion into my job. You know, I always wanted to

keep it slightly separate. But yeah, finally, I just decided, you know, that now is the time. And

I think, you know, lots of the skills and stuff, I think that I'd learned through my time

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