The Thinking Tackle Podcast.

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And today I'm joining the studio by a man whose time at the heart of the British carp scene did coincide with some of the very best carp we have ever had.

And he caught them as well. So James

Turner, thank you so much for coming in. It's been a little while since I've seen you last. And in fact,

it's taken me a little while to get you on here. So thank you for coming. You're more than

welcome, Rich. Now, I think you might actually have done more research for this podcast than I have.

You told me before we rolled that you had been trawling the archives to remind yourself of what you did. So a nice journey down memory lane. It was. It was very, very kind of cathartic. It's, I feel like I'm 21, but I'm definitely not. You don't look that different. The beard is a new thing, isn't it?

And there's less volume in terms of hair. And I'd like to think I've matured a bit as well. Yeah. Yeah, it was really interesting. There's so much that I'd forgotten and there was kind of people and places. And so I read through, I didn't want to come in here, sorry. I didn't want to come in here and you be reeling off stuff and me just not remembering that I'd done it.

Yeah.

Which was a... I didn't want to come in here, sorry. I didn't want to come in here and you be reeling off stuff and me just not remembering that I'd done it.

Yeah. Which was a possibility.

No.

You've always had an eye for the detail, mate, I think.

Oh, thank you.

I feel that anyway.

I think it's, I think I first, maybe I first bumped into you on the car park lake

no no we went around Frogmore

yes before that then yeah that

I think that was a year after I caught it

and you

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