I think One of your best Podcasts to date, Rob Wootton take a bow!!! an all round gentleman and an excellent angler!! look forward to seeing him the pod cast in the near future.

Brilliant listen, only popped it on for 10 minutes and 2 hours later still watching!

Rob -- Legend!

Theres another top angler that could push Swinno for Santa Des Taylor ho ho ho all the best lads for 2024. Great content as always cheers and thanks to Rob top angler.

Rob Wootton, absolutely awesome focused, inspirational you couldn’t get a word in edgeways. Could you !!! Thank you very much for everyone, involved. Happy Christmas ❤🎉🎉🎉

Signing up to the edge on the back of this, I knew it was out there but Rob’s sold it to me in this pod.

One of the most underrated anglers, great guy rob and great podcast.

Brilliant podcast with Rob Wootton awesome angler. I had the pleasure of going on his and Lee's coaching days on southfield res earlier this year and what Rob taught me as totally altered my feeder fishing couldn't recommend their coaching sessions. Ps the hat I'm wearing his robs as I was wearing a competitors baseball cap so Rob gave me his lol.

Fantastic insight into what makes Rob tick. What a guy and competitor. Great podcast. 🐳👍

Brilliant podcast pal 👏

Fantastic podcast.

Brilliant fisherman- and a great talker

The Edge is well worth the coin imo. Lovely 8hr podcast this one Matt, Toby and Rob 😂😂

If the Angling Trust never had the competitions side of the organisation, the nationals/fisho/Team England etc, in which you need to be a member to take part, how much would they lose financially? would they be able to stay the self-proclaimed governing body of fishing? As you guys said, fragmentation, stereotype and public portrayal are factors to overcome. 'Rock and hard place' springs to mind. Great podcast as usual.....

been waiting for this we deffo have the edge in this podcast

Brilliant first Hour Rob/lads… I’m going to Harthill for a couple of Vanilla slices for tomorrow’s Match (if you turn up) ;-)

This year's youth and junior national is at Partridge. Thats 255 miles from my door in Sussex. A days travelling, a day fishing and a day driving back, plus hotel and bait costs.

A big thing for me, as a dad of two young boys, is that when I fish a match it's usually 8-12hrs away from the family and another £50-70. Luckily the money is OK, but time away isn't easy to manage, if there were two or two and a half hr matches on a Sunday morning it would be much easier to plan some time in for yourself rather than a whole long day. I love to fish a 5 or 6 hr match but, when adding travel time and the draw and results it's a long day. We need to become modern.

As far as recruitment goes I believe we can all do our bit. Take someone fishing a couple of times a year, I introduce 1 person per year and if one person takes it up and we all did this, then we double the match angling scene.

Awesome guys. Harthill bakery was shut down 😢

Only 36 minutes in but Rob’s point about getting younger people involved to attract younger people is bang on. I see fish with Carl is doing a challenge to try and win one of the big fishing tournaments this year. Kids consume 99% of their media through KZfaq and if one of the big fishing KZfaqrs can collab with a KZfaqr from a non fishing background it will spark a whole new generation of anglers. Look at the impact it’s had on the boxing world over the past few years. Pro boxers won’t say it’s necessarily a good thing though! 😁

I bet when Tom Pringle starts fishing with pop ups he can’t just can’t stop.

Brilliant Pod cast, kept my interest all the way through, made my Christmas Day, well done lads,

Some memories coming back CIU matches against Pete and Hughie

Nearly all pools and lakes around by me have a rule no under 16's unless accompanied by an adult. So parents have to spend their time fishing and perhaps they have no clue or time. A summer school would help, and parents could drop the kids off knowing they were supervised and safe.

We spoke about his over 40 years ago before the trust and we are still talking about it still.

Brilliant podcast matt. I do think Rob is a top class angler that needs to chill slightly. Looks so tense

I believe social media is the key. I think light drama/ pundits talking about festival results, international results etc. make mega stars. The youth want something to debate and something. That can occupy them during the week when they’re not fishing. Yeah encourage kids to fish but I honestly believe social media and scene coverage is as important

When I ran the Wyche anglers junior team 30 years ago I had 40 anglers trying to get into the national junior championship team,out of them only 4 still go fishing and the senior team stopped fishing 20 years ago,this very sad ,but what the answer is I have no idea

I think sponsored anglers are missing the point,just have a tot up what your kit costs to the average parent!! thats why you don,t get youngsters fishing.

Wat a great podcast with a very great angler and a great person! We'll meet again next year in Belgium 👌

So many industries facing the same issue around younger people not going out as much any more.

Rob is great viewing, laughed my head off at Chum Mixers 🤡

I wonder if sponsorship contract clauses and commercial pressure now hinders cross group / company working and organisation????

Look at Ramsbottom anglers juniors and how Dave does there.

Brilliant podcast second only to bob nudd in my personal opinion

When my little boy was about six, he said to me, there is no Santa, parents buy the presents, I said to him, do you know why parents have to buy presents, he said why, I said because their kids stopped believing, as soon as you stop believing, Santa stops coming.

Why the AT can't do some more in the Midlands as 2025 is Lindholm. I understand finding a big venue is important but I guess we are just unlucky to live so far away.

That is an interesting point on the state of match fishing. My club has no members under the age of 45. When u go on matches there are next to no anglers under 50. Our club will die with our generation as will commercials and match angling in general.

Mark knopfler celti

Just let people fish too many rules