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Today we're joined by Longtime Carper, Clive Williams.

Now, if Clive isn't a household name already, then maybe he deserves to be because he's designed some of the most innovative tackle we've seen in the last 20 years, notably The Corder Crusher.

And Clive joins us just after the publication of his first book, Sling Your Hook, which includes some incredible carp as well as some fantastic stories, some of which we're going to get into today.

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Clive, thank you so much for coming in, mate.

I have you at a slight disadvantage here because having spent the last couple of weeks with your new book,

I know you a lot better than you know me.

But I've really enjoyed it, mate.

I should say that.

But what I do want to know is a little bit about why you decided to write it.

I suppose it goes back 25 years, really.

I've always been a collector of carbooks.

I've always loved reading other people's stories.

And I just thought one day I'd love to see my title

in amongst all them great titles.

And I just started before the days of computers, phones, stuff like that.

I started jotting a few things down.

And I think I wrote the first 85,000 words by hand in an A4 book that I still got at home.

It was scribbled.

And basically, really, that was it.

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