25. Carp Fishing Podcast - A Fifteen Year Journey - Ben Smith

The Carp Fishing Podcast

Mark Bryant

Hobbies, Leisure, Carpfishingpodcast

4.8 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 233 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this month will be unknown to most but his journey which culminated in a very special carp recently will certainly resonate with many. Ben Smith started his journey on the lake in question when his daughter was just born, some 15 years ago, this year he reached his Everest. Ben delves into the trials and tribulations of targeting low stock pits as a family man with important responsibilities and priorities that had to come before his angling dreams. In addition Mike and Mark chew the fat over oxygen crashes and even get a screamer on tape!

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0:00.0	Right, welcome back to the cart fishing podcast episode, I want to say 24 mark.
0:22.5	24?
0:23.0	24?
0:23.5	Sounds about right.
0:24.3	Yeah, it's about there, right?
0:25.2	Yeah, similar now.
0:26.1	Nearly a mid-20.
0:27.4	Yes.
0:28.4	Yeah, just under.
0:29.5	Just under it.
0:30.0	It feels like, I'm not being funny, we might be on episode 24, but I reckon it's at least 34 degrees today.
0:36.5	Yeah, it is roasted. It's gone, isn't it?
0:39.3	Literally, well, from today, that was it.
0:41.3	This week has been pretty inclement, hasn't it?
0:43.3	A bit of rain last weekend and then suddenly, boosh, here it is.
0:47.3	Croke here, the summer's last stand for it feels like it.
0:50.3	Well, I'm not being funny, I don't want to sort of wish the summer away, but I hope it is.
0:56.1	Because despite us having glorious weather during lockdown, which I'm not complaining,
1:00.9	that certainly helped.
1:01.8	And if you were stuck at home and doing all the usual things, having the weather just to sit in the garden for guys furloughed, etc.,
1:09.0	just sort of made that a little bit easier but for
1:11.8	cartfish in terms I don't know it's just it's stale yeah it's stale stagnant yeah
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