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And today in the studio, we are joined by Jamie Cook, a committed big carpman who also has his hands rather full as the main man at the Angling Trust.

Now, before we dive too deeply into Angling

Politics, we're going to take a look at Jamie's fishing in the Redding area, where he targeted

ancient Leany Carp, as well as some carp, which have become a lot more famous in recent years.

The Thinking Tackle Podcast. Jamie, thank you very much for making the track up from Bristol.

Thanks for inviting me, Rich. You're more than welcome. How is life as chief executive are you of

Angling Trust? Yeah, Angling Trust and Fish Legal. So it's busy, Rich. It's pretty varied.

But it's great to come and do things like this and be invited out to come and talk about the work that we're doing because I've got to be honest, having fished my whole life, there's so much stuff that goes on behind the scenes that I had no idea of.

And I think since I've started, I've realized that a big part of my job is to try and shine a light on the good stuff we're doing and speak to

anglers and learn what we can do to support them and our members.

Now, the thing is, angling politics is a, you know, at worst, quite a dry topic.

So we are going to park the trust initially.

So those guys of you, you know, those of you out of there who want the dry stuff,

we're going to get well and truly sink our teeth into that later on.

But for starters, we're going to talk about fishing.

Let's talk fishing.

We're going to talk fishing.

And I got quite excited yesterday talking to you about your early carp fishing in the Reading area because

this is an area that has become frankly like the epicenter of big carp in the south now

really I think and you were there kind of at the very start of that I think yeah slightly after

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