UNCUT Podcast #033: Martin Locke - British Record Carp?
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4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Carp fishing legend Martin Locke joins Tom Dove, Damian Clarke and Adam Reed for a BIG CARP Uncut Podcast. From starting Solar Tackle in the 1980s to landing some of the biggest carp ever caught, Martin's story is one of passion, innovation, and proper old-school graft. He also reflects on his recent campaign that produced a possible British Record carp — proving that decades on, he's still doing it at the very highest level.
Damo and Tom go deep with Martin on everything from the early days of carp fishing and making his first buzz bars in a machine shop, to the moment he founded one of the most iconic brands in angling. Expect honesty, nostalgia, and plenty of laughs — this one captures exactly where carp fishing came from, and how much it's evolved.
🎣 In This Episode:
- How Solar Tackle was born in a garage
- The story behind "Sally", the legendary logo fish
- The early years of carp fishing and homemade tackle
- Martin's biggest-ever winter captures, including a 68lb+ carp
His lasting influence on tackle design and the modern carp scene, Martin Locke is one of the sport's great storytellers — and this is proper Uncut gold.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast Uncut. This week we've got a very special guest and a true pioneer of our industry. |
| 0:07.9 | We've got Martin Locke. He's going to be talking about a very special capture that could potentially be the next British record. |
| 0:15.1 | Martin's also going to be giving us some great advice and some reasons to still get out in the winter months. |
| 0:20.5 | Don't forget to like and subscribe so you know where the next podcast is live. The Thinking Tackle Podcast. It's a hard thing to do. Like with vinyl, it's very difficult because the timing to the things to get right. But with digital, it's like it's all the same time in anyway, so anyone can do it really. As long as you've got the taste of music press the sync button on there yeah reason you know and you sort of away but |
| 0:41.0 | a bit more to it than that I knew it was easy John over there always tries to make acts |
| 0:45.1 | really hard do you could you play vinyl you can perfect what a guy yeah what a guy |
| 0:49.4 | he's open to say no Harris is really good at it yeah I don't like two ears I'm |
| 0:54.0 | one's cool. |
| 0:54.6 | I can do it. Scratching and all that. I love all that. Right. Should we get going? I think we can. Welcome everybody to the Thinking Tackle Uncut podcast. If you're watching, you'll see we're without Spooner, but we've replaced him with a much better guest most of you will know |
| 1:12.9 | Martin he's been in this industry for absolutely ever certainly the whole |
| 1:17.0 | time I've been cart fishing he's played a very key part in product in this |
| 1:22.3 | industry and is widely known for his time at solar tackle but also he's a very |
| 1:27.4 | good angler so welcome to the podcast |
| 1:29.0 | mark thanks very much boys yeah welcome welcome appreciate the invite now you're welcome i know damo's |
| 1:33.7 | been wanting to get you on for a while you've had a lot of success in recent times so that's quite |
| 1:37.4 | andy as well you've caught some amazing carp um but for people that don't know why don't you tell us a |
| 1:42.3 | little bit just a little bit about how you got into the fishing industry, I guess, and sort of where it all started for you. |
| 1:48.0 | Well, it was way back when, even though it doesn't seem like that long ago, we've, I started carp fishing in 1976, which is probably four you boys. |
| 1:57.0 | Blimey. |
| 1:58.0 | But... |
| 1:59.0 | Not me. |
| 2:00.0 | No, not Damo. Damo was 404. I was going to say Dato was driving. blimey Not me No not Damo Damo was 45 |
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