Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast. Now, I don't use the term legend too flippantly, but today's guest most certainly is. Back in 1984, he caught what was at the time the country's second largest ever carp caught,

but that doesn't even begin to tip the iceberg.

And joining him in the studio is someone that's helped him back after a near 30-year absence from carp fishing.

It's with pleasure that I welcome Richie MacDonald and Damian Clark onto what will be my last ever thinking tackle forecast.

The Thinking Tackle Podcast. We'll miss you, mate. I'll be sorry to hear that. At least you won't have to sit through 20 takes. How many takes for Serp? To be fair, that was good for you. That was about seven. Yeah, that's pretty good, won't it? Richie, how are you?

I'm good, mate.

Don't take me seven takes.

I only need one.

You're off. Let's get going. What he's been saying, let's get going, hasn't he? He's been a bit impatient with this, doesn't he? Well, you know, I'm getting old. it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast it's a pleasure of baby you so many yeah it's great, it's great. And Damo, he's a bit of a fan of yours, isn't he,

over your cart fishing life? A fan of Ritches, yeah. Yeah, definitely. And I'm a fan of Damos as well. What Damo does today, I done yesterday, but vice versa. I've been so impressed with his attitude of fishing, the way he goes about his fishing the way he's helped me with my future fishing yeah uh it's been a

wonderful little road on impressed with his attitude of fishing, the way he goes about is fishing, the way he's helped me with my future fishing.

Yeah.

It's been a wonderful little road I'm taking at the moment. Yeah. Well, everyone's sort of helped each other a little bit here, haven't they? Yeah. Become a fair way, aren't we, Rich, in the last 12 months? Yeah, a long, long way. Thanks to you, Dane, without a doubt. and there's other people I will mention throughout this film

that have helped me along the way.

My sister, Damien, without a doubt. And there's other people I will mention throughout this film that have helped me along the way.

My sister, of course, very helpful.

But hopefully we'll come to these people as we go through this film.

And they'll be showing in a good light as what this kind of person that have helped me along this way.

Because it's been a hard road, but Damien, yourself and Simon and other people have made this road a lot easier for me, but with the help that they've given me. And for now, that's all I want to talk about. Let's get on, that's catching fish. Well, let's go to the start of the show where we always ask our guests to, you can see that I've been out of this for a while, can't you? I'm a little bit dry, aren't I? We always ask the guests for a gift at the start of the show, Rich. Have you got anything nice for us? Yeah, I've got a couple of boil indicators. Right, okay. My first boy in the car was obviously a piece of bread. We got those here, haven't we? Yeah, right, well that's not the first one. The first one was a bit of bread, then it was a silver paper.

And then it went a silver paper.

And then it went to the penny on the spool with a bow and open, and you used to hear that, and that was your run. And then you got up, Swartley Rod and there was your fish. That's why, where the camera is, you can see all the dents in there. us from pennies.

The second best indicator was the Dick Walker one, which used to a where the camera is, you can see all the dents in there, that's from pennies.

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