#101 - Jim Foster
Korda - The Thinking Tackle Podcast
Korda Developments Ltd
4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Korda podcast we have, Jim Foster! Jim is best known as the founding editor of Total Carp. He is also an avid angler who caught his first carp back in the late 80's. Since then, he has gone on to fish notable venues such as The Essex Manor and Withy Pool. In this episode, we took a look back at Jim's angling life, we also got an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight into the early world of angling media.
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| 0:00.0 | The Thinking Tackle Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to The Thinking Tackle Podcast. Now, if you haven't already, please subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Now, today is my very great pleasure to be joined in the studio by a man who I think is probably the most important guy that you've never heard of. cartfish. If you're under 35. |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.9 | Jim Foster, my old boss, the guy who gave me probably my big break into fishing, |
| 0:28.1 | perhaps best known as the launching editor of Total Cart Magazine, |
| 0:32.9 | which is still out there, still doing the do. |
| 0:36.8 | But was so, so important, Jim, in founding the way that carp media is put together to this day, I think. |
| 0:46.0 | What was the aim for total when you guys sat around the table and planned it? |
| 0:52.5 | Straight in there. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.2 | Probably needs a bit more of a background to explain the answer to that question. Um, but I joined D. HP in January, 1996, uh, on 23rd of January. I always remember it was a 23rd of January because it was David Hall's 53rd birthday. Um, and, um, we can go into the story of how I got the job. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, in a little bit. |
| 1:19.8 | But Catchmore Carp had been purchased by the company Chris Reel, which was the name of the company before it became David Hall publishing. |
| 1:22.6 | And it was formerly known as carp news and angling techniques. |
| 1:26.9 | And it had been launched by Tim Hodges, |
| 1:30.4 | who David had recruited as part of the purchase, the acquisition to edit Catch More Carp. |
| 1:37.8 | And over the following three years or so, it couldn't make it work. |
| 1:42.7 | And I'm sure we can go to some reasons why that is. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, that's the first issue that I actually helped put together. |
| 1:48.0 | With jewels on the cover. |
| 1:48.8 | The Selby Three Lakes car. |
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