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Recently we interviewed an English friend of ours over in Belgium. Among the shitload of presents he had for us was this mega set of original Gardner Tackle GT90 monkey climbers to add to our existing collection of oldschool monkey climbers from brands like Solar Tackle, Rod Hutchinson, Fox, Gardner, etc. Have you ever used monkey climbers? If so, let us know which or drop a picture in the comments.

For MC#20 we interviewed local angler Bart aka Vistje just before he passed away at the young age of 42. We made sure he could see the cover and layout before he went, but never actually saw the magazine being published. On his funeral, the big proofprint of the cover was even next to his coffin.  As a thank you Bart's mom invited us and his closest fishing friends to a really good local restaurant. All of us arranged flowers and a gift for her, but what I did not know was that she had a surprise for me too....

Over the past few weeks one constant name catching them specials was Marvin Kreisel (Insta @marvin_kreisel). He sent us a few pics to share with you all on our blog here. Enjoy!

We probably posted this before but when we saw this early Rage Against The Machine photo, their guitarist Tom Morello made us think of Hutchy. Check their selfmade shirts: Nobody x Noddy. Even the handwriting is very similar. Of course, all of this is sheer coincidence, but a good fun fact nonetheless. When we interviewed Rod, a guitar hero himself, we asked him about his musical taste and the man who couldn't smile forever answered us he was a rock 'n roll man, but didn't like anything after Elvis. Fair enough! In our latest issue we also coined a new...

We just came across this lush 80s pick of our friend Phil Dupont on a notorious Belgian circuit water. Phil wrote two books last year, Chasing Rainbows 1 and 2, which are available from this Facebook group. PS Different times, so please don't go mad on the no mat, they just weren't around back then.