Tales from the Tackle Shop, fishing podcast.

Pole elastics  EXPLAINED - Tales from the Tackle Shop S2, ep 17 Alex explains the range of Pole elastics he would use over the winter months on shallow fenland drains and rivers,. The new lakes at Rookery Waters, Lady Anglers and Environment Agency use of data are discussed.

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GROUNDBAITS EXPLAINED - Tales from the Tackle Shop S2, ep 16 Alex explains the range of GROUNDBAITS he would use over the winter months on shallow fenland drains and rivers,. The new lakes at Rookery Waters and Andy's new PB Zander are discussed.  There really is not much going on locally with all the Baltic weather conditions & lockdown 3.

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BEST pole floats - Tales from the Tackle Shop Vodcast, ep 15.

Alex explains the range of pole floats he would use over the winter months on shallow fenland drains and rivers,. The boys discuss the outcome of the Arsenal vs Newcastle game? There really is not much going on locally with all the flood water and lockdown 3.

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LOCKDOWN 3, FISHING Travel Guidelines Explained S2, episode 14. Not much has happened apart from the biggest fishing match of the year!!!! Andy explains the Angling Trust guidelines to fishing during lockdown 3.

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Special guest: Thom Hunt

I was saving this Vodcast for a special occasion.

Well we can fish again after our 1 day lockdown ban.

So to celebrate this I have decided to unleash Thom Hunt upon you.

Thom is an accomplished tournament angler. His competition wins over the last few years speak for themselves.

He has an unbeatable partnership with Kev Cox and between them they thrash us mere mortals in most boat predator competitions.

Enjoy his pearls of wisdom to competition lure fishing. Photographs courtesy of; Thom Hunt Kev Cox

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Season 2, episode 13 - Christmas Special

Alex describes his match on the Sunday's March Open, where he drew his normal peg on the allotments.

Andy thinks he is Santa!!

Merry Christmas everyone.

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In season 2, episode 12 - The guys will not be beaten!

 Alex is on form framing for the second week running, he shows us some of his rigs for use on shallow fen drains. The few local angling club matches are highlighted and Alex announces the Tackle & Bates competition winner.

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In season 2, episode 11 - We have surpassed ourselves.

In an attempt to show our adoring public footage from the Bates mansion we tried to video the podcast.

Absolutely nothing.................Alex took 630 photos of himself and Andy's phone recorded the last 3 minutes of the pod........

Good job the boys can fish.

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In season 2, episode 6 - The guys give a round up of the local match results and the Winter league, round 3, on the Old course of the River Nene.

Match river records were smashed!!

Daiwa Tackle & Bates are on fire!!

Alex gives a detailed description of how he fished the match.

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Special Guest - Tom Moir 'FFS Lures'

In this new format we are lucky to have Tom Moir. He talks about his fascinating work life in the Army and dog training.

He is the owner and bait builder of FFS Lures. His finesse stick and creature baits are works of art. However most importantly they are proven fish candy.

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