Bev Clifford is the England Ladies Carp Team Captain. Due to her dedication, drive, and determination, she has established herself as one of the most reputable individuals in today's English carp fishing scene. As the daughter of Kevin Clifford, the co-founder of Carp-Talk Magazine, Bev has spent her entire life exposed to the eventualities of the angling industry. She also runs the Ladies Carp Academy and is involved with multiple other campaigns and organizations such as This Girl Can.

Dean Fletcher caught a fish known as The Parrot at a colossal weight of 68lb 1oz from the Wasing Estate Fishery in 2016. Consequently, this tremendous capture makes Dean the current holder of the ratified accolade, the British record for a carp. Along with Wasing, he's fished other familiar venues such as Dinton Pastures and Wellington Country Park. Some of his most memorable captures from these fisheries include Wellington Park's The Turtle and Dinton's Bruno.

Pete Castle is one of Korda's longest-standing consultants and has helped develop various popular items of tackle. He is also a professional angling coach, who specializes in coaching anglers of all ages and abilities through his business, Pete Castle Fishing and Photography. In this episode, Pete shared a selection of intriguing and unique tales from his fishing life, as this podcast takes a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of carp fishing's most philosophical and fascinating personalities.

Fishery owner and dedicated big carp angler, Jerry Hammond is a man with a boundless life-long passion for carp fishing. His serious carp angling life began on Hainault Park Lake back in the late '70s. Since then, he has gone on to successfully tackle some of the country's hardest venues including, Sutton at Hone, Tolpits, Yateley Car Park and Vinnetrow. Jerry has also appeared as an extra in numerous blockbuster movies and TV shows such as Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and Midsomer Murders.

In this episode of the podcast, we go deep into everything rigs with Korda boss, Danny Fairbrass and two of the country's leading carp anglers and previous podcast guests, Luke Stevenson and Aaron Copp. We open their rig boxes and explore the minds of these exceptional carp anglers who openly share their advice, approaches, and attitudes on some of the most commonly used carp rigs around today.

Due to popular demand, carp fishing legend Frank Warwick has returned to the podcast for another colourful and highly informative episode. We last heard from Frank on episode #026 of the show, and since then he has recently finished a successful winter campaign on a Cheshire syndicate water. During this episode of the podcast, Simon and Frank delved into the technical aspects of his recent campaign, while revealing more about Frank's unique approach to fishing during the colder months.

On this episode of the podcast, we have one of the most celebrated and successful carp anglers today and the new face of CarpFix, Darrell Peck. Darrell has recently set up his online carp fishing channel, CarpFix, and he came on the show to talk about his new venture. We also have Joe Wright, the founder and editor of the carp fishing magazine, Carpology. Joe shared the journey behind the magazine and explained the hard work and dedication needed to sustain its sizable following.

Youtubers Carl and Alex, bait expert John Baker and Monster Carp co-host and Korda's Tom Dove all joined Simon Pitt on this episode of The Thinking Tackle Podcast. Due to the lockdown regulations, the podcast is continuing its series of Lockdown Listens with guests from the world of carp fishing. Carl and Alex discussed their recent lockdown videos, John Baker lifts the lid on the bait industry and Tom Dove revealed some big news regarding his personal life.

Damian Clarke, Iain Macmillan and Julian Cundiff join us on our first Lockdown Listens Thinking Tackle Podcast. Due to the recent nationwide lockdown, we have temporarily changed from our regular in-studio episodes to a series of remote interviews with a variety of guests. Damian discusses some recent big fish success; Iain tells us about last October's trip to Pascals Lake in France and Julian joins us again to talk about why he typically prefers day only carp fishing.

Danny Fairbrass has played an integral role in the development of modern carp fishing, which has made him into one of the sports most respected individuals. However, despite his high media profile, he has very seldomly shared intimate details of his life before Korda. In this episode of the podcast, Danny takes a trip down memory lane to reflect on his early angling life, to his first-ever night fishing trip with his mother, as well as the effort that it took to catch his first twenty-pound carp.