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Now, on this show, we are delighted to welcome back Ian Bailey to the show, a man whose

fishing is so diverse that we thought we'd have him on again.

Last time, Ian, we talked about, or you actually, it was Simon,

and you talked about a run of, frankly, ginormous carp that you'd caught from Grenville Lake.

Now, I've known you a long time.

I know there's a lot more to your fishing, and I want to go back across some of the standout

moments from what's

been like I say a really diverse career in big carp angling I think well I first met you

when I moved to work actually poor quarter that's it yeah yeah and at the time I think

it's fair to say you were a very different angler to the one you are now.

Yeah, yeah, I would say so. Definitely agree.

What kind of influences, well, look, I don't, I'm going to put it, turn that question around.

You were known in these halls as Tell for a little while.

Tell me about how much of an influence that scene had on the young Ian Bailey.

It was massive, wasn't it?

In pursuit of the largest.

You know, many of Angla, sort of my age group, read that book, got inspired by it, so on.

And probably off the back at Big Cart magazine, you know, sort sort of you didn't have social media like we have now, you know, Fisher instantly on there, aren't they? And you've got updates all the time, whereas you have to wait monthly or weekly for the carp tool and you could sort of go through and get the info on what's coming out, etc. But yeah, it was massive on it, really, mate. and sort of just think, oh, you know, I want to go do that and try and catch some carp like that, all the ones. So was it Terry's stories or the stories around that scene? Was it image-led? Because obviously a lot, we sort of dwelt on magazines back then, didn't we? What we're talking, I suppose, late 90s.

You're younger than me, but nonetheless, you were still engaged in that scene in the late 90s, early 2000s.

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