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Today, I'm joined in the studio by Carpangling Historian, an all-round legend, Chris Ball.

And Chris is on his second visit to the Thinking Tackle podcast.

Quite a privilege, Chris, but we are delighted to have you back.

Thank you very much. Yes, so I believe. The only people like Danny and Darylls that have done to. God knows what you're seeing me, but, you know, I'm back. Chris, you are the conduit through which we access carp fishing's rich history, I'm sure. Oh, what a great line. I'm going to use that one made that i know made it up um i just want to say rich before we start he gave a brilliant um we we've got chris you

have to correct me if i've used the wrong terms here but we've got an old fishing rod here that's

about as far as my terminology goes right and you gave a great um rich called it antiques road show kind of um introduction uh which i thought

was very impressive um do you want to tell everyone watching a little bit about it because i found it

quite impressive okay all right um this happened not all the time but i get quite a bit of this

i mean on the telephone, certainly where I'm at

a show or something like that, and people, and I don't mind, it's great. I mean, A, I like to see

the rods themselves. The role I just looked at now is from Dawson's of Bromley. They were

a husband and wife company from way back.

He was a master rod builder.

They had other people obviously working there as well.

And they produced a load of rods,

including in split cane.

And that one is a river rod,

or give it the old fashion expression, a rod i'll tell you what they would call that

a three-piece river rod called the sabrina they are about though you do see them around this is a rod

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