UNCUT Podcast #019: Bait Like Tom Maker And Catch More Carp

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4.8 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Want to catch more carp like Tom Maker, Tom Dove, Neil Spooner and Adam Reed? Our guest will help you Learn to bait like Tom Maker… because he is Tom Maker.

In this episode of the Thinking Tackle Uncut Podcast, Tom shares the exact baiting routines and consistency tricks that put him ahead of the game—but it's not just Tom in the spotlight. Join the regular podcast hosts Tom Dove, Neil Spooner and Adam Reed for a packed session full of tactics, laughs, and jaw-dropping catches.

Tom Maker's full baiting routine: How he plans, adapts, and keeps carp feeding all week
Team banter & honest discussion: Why sharing (or not sharing) catch photos causes friendly controversy
How much bait is too much? The crew debates baiting quantities, timing, and the surprising impact of small tweaks
The science behind success: Hear from the team on barbless hooks, pressure tactics, and how even top anglers lose fish
Epic recent catches: The team breaks down recent 50lb+ carp, family photos, and standout angling moments
Practical session advice: From reading the water to outsmarting nuisance species, everyone weighs in with proven tips

Tom gives a behind-the-scenes look at his recent Gigantica session (available on YouTube). Still, the whole team gets involved, with Tom Dove challenging some of Maker's ideas, sharing hard-won lessons, and keeping the conversation authentic and relatable. It's a true deep dive into what works for catching more (and bigger) carp.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Thinking Tackle podcast Uncut. This time round, in Dame Ove's absence, we've got the one and only Tom Maker. Now, we're going to be grilling him about spot fishing and his recent return to Gigantica. And who really knows better? Tom Dove or Tom Maker? Don't forget to like and subscribe so you know when the next podcast is live. The Thinking Tackle Podcast. He wants to talk about it now. Well, I don't want to talk about it. We can talk about it. No, no, I'm not talking about it. You don't want to talk about it. And I'm saying that something's massively changed because the week before, last week, you all you want you to do was send pictures of your thames fish out talk about them tell
0:38.8	us how you've caught them and now all of a sudden you don't want to true so the question i'm
0:42.6	asking is what has happened between now and then on the thames are you getting bullied
0:46.9	a serious question have you ever known him to not talk about any capture of any species at any
0:53.6	time especially when he's got a chance to talk about in front of 30,000 people. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm thinking that if we do it... I think he's getting more bullied now than what it does on the river. No, he's getting bullied on the river. No, I'm thinking if we do it every single week, it is going to be Z in L, isn't it? people are going to be like, oh, I can't know. It's never stopped, but you know, never bothered you before. That's, but a point.
1:13.6	Is everything correct? going to be Z in L, isn't it? People are going to be like, oh, I can't have. It's never stopped, but, you know, never bothered you before.
1:11.6	That's, but a point, what?
1:13.6	Is everything right? Like, Kevin, may I'm dropping you a photo over? No, no, no, no, I don't want to see it. No, we don't want to see it. We don't want to see it. I'm concerned about your well-being. Well, yeah, because all of a sudden you've gone very quiet, and we know you're catching.
1:27.4	Why don't we say, why don't we put one up?
1:30.1	Really?
1:30.8	Yeah. It's just not accepting it. It's not accepting it. No, we don't want to talk about it. I was going to say, why don't we put one up and why don't I say I'm not going to bore everyone with everything that's been going on because we're making a film. The point is that you're probably right. You don't want to talk about all the time, but that's a weird thing for you to say.
1:46.3	And something has happened for you to treat going on because we're making a film. The point is, you're probably right. You don't want to talk about it all the time,
1:44.4	but that's a weird thing for you to say,
1:46.3	and something has happened for you to trigger that idea, because normally you'd just be like, oh, I'm, yeah, yeah, but I'm thinking, one, I'm thinking, we don't want to talk about it all the time and it get boring. Two, I like the fact that we're doing a film on this.
2:00.2	I'd be nice if most of it's a surprise.
2:02.6	Yeah.
2:03.1	Like, it'd be nice...
2:03.8	Again, never sucked you before. the time and it get boring. Two, I like the fact that we're doing a film on this. I'd be nice if most of it's a surprise.
2:02.6	Yeah.
2:03.1	Like, it'd be nice.
2:03.8	Again, never stopped you before.
2:05.1	No, and that's also not true. You're just going to see a picture. People are going to really want to see the film if you're teasing it with pictures. Yeah, we don't show everyone you've caught, do you? Yeah. But like you do on all the mainline videos you've done,
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