UNCUT Podcast #034: Danny Fairbrass Surprised Us All
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4.8 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this week's show carp fishings Gaffer Danny Fairbrass is in the Uncut Podcast studio. With Damo missing, Tom Dove, Neil Spooner, and Adam Reed pull Danny in and it quickly turns into one of those episodes where proper carp fishing thinking takes over.
No agenda, no polish, just an honest conversation about recent fishing, winter decision-making, and why doing less often catches more.
Plus, Danny also talks openly about going on social media for the first time (It only took 26 years) and why it's never been a priority until now. The lads cannot believe it and have a few questions.
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The chat moves from Spooner's 50 and winter captures into a detailed look at Danny's recent trip to Etang des Gaulois in France. Shallow water, soft silt, big fish - and plenty of reasons why most anglers would have overcomplicated it. Danny explains how he approached baiting, rigs, and timing, and why rumours about a lake "not fishing" usually say more about anglers than the venue.
🎧 In this episode:
- Recent Spooner's 50 fish and why some just stand out
- Winter carp fishing and letting the venue do the work
- Danny Fairbrass on Étang des Gaulois — shallow water, soft bottoms, right approach
- Boilie fishing in winter and knowing when to leave it alone
- Making fishing films and what anglers should (and shouldn't) take from them
- Rumours, booking agents, and backing your own judgement
- Spot fishing properly on pressured lakes
- Consistency, discipline, and still having to think
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Tackle Uncut podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | And in Damo's absence this week, we've dragged in the boss. |
| 0:06.2 | That's right, DF's in the hot seat, and he's going to tell us all about two incredible films he's got coming out soon. |
| 0:12.3 | He's also got a massive announcement that's caught us all by surprise. |
| 0:16.5 | Don't forget to like and subscribe, so you know in the next podcast is live. |
| 0:20.3 | The Thinking Tackle Podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | How big Jeff Geese is that? I didn't catch kids. Oh yeah. I died. I said that for, but no. He knew as well. I thought it. Oh, right. He thought it like fourth chip flutes on a pop-up. Yeah. Saw him showing, put a pop-up on it. Right. Let's get going. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome everybody to the Thinking Tackle Uncut podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | Now if you're watching, you'll see we are missing Damo. So we've roped in a guest. The cleaner was busy. So we had a little hunt around the building. We've managed to drag the boss in because he's got saying very, very interesting to talk about, which we'll get on to later. But first of all, we are going to start on Spooners 50 because we've got a few that we've missed over the last few weeks. And obviously, people haven't been catching quite as many because it's been cold. But we've got a few this week, I'm pleased to say. Certainly weren't one of mine that was no so the 50s continue and here we go right |
| 1:13.9 | I'm going to read him out here so top left we've got Marcus Leake with a fish from the Coomley |
| 1:19.3 | complex which is obviously popular this time of year in the winter yeah yeah and that's a 54 pound 12 |
| 1:25.4 | ounce common so an absolute monster yeah he's done a cut the trips, aren't he? |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, he has. |
| 1:43.1 | Top right, Dover you know this one well. It's definitely on the hit list, I'm sure. It's Razbury North's. Is it, Razbynors? No. No? That's actually one that I didn't know was a 50 pounder. That comes through, I think it was like mid 40 last year. I might be wrong. |
| 1:43.6 | Okay. |
| 1:44.8 | Mid-forkly last year and has come from |
| 1:45.3 | and has been caught |
| 1:46.0 | 53 and then 54. |
| 1:47.7 | Probably is the big in it. No, no, no, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. Okay. But how big is the Sutton? Probably about the same size, but there's the one I caught last year is probably 55, 56. Oh, is it? think right 56 yeah okay well that's 53 power 14 there |
| 2:03.4 | um and then bottom left is that's from coomley again rob mayor with a 52 pound one ounce common |
| 2:10.5 | what yeah and then bottom right that's probably why damos not here the bottom right yeah because you |
| 2:16.0 | can't catch it and that's obviously car Carfegina's Bullnose, |
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