Well, hello and welcome to the first ever baitworks podcast. Now, if you haven't already guessed my name's Mark

Bryant I own Baitworks and I've got a friend beside me Mike Holly who runs

Bourne and Bread Carp Gear. Hello Michael. Hello yes it's quite unusual

Mark to have a camera in our face we we like to sit on a bed chair quite often over a

cup of tea and two of the fats so yeah different. Absolutely and you know it's

really inspired the podcast a little bit because some of the fats so yeah different absolutely and you know it's really inspired

the podcast a little bit because some of the conversations we have on the bank being up here in

the cotswolds we've got a you know a whole network of waters here over 150 lakes in total and we get

all sorts of anglers come up far wide and local and it's interesting just to get a bit of an insight i suppose into their

into their fishing you know how they how they go about it their busy lives and that's what we want

to try and bring a bring a bit to this podcast is uh it's not only fishing but it's it's everyday of life

myself i work obviously in the bake factory a lot so i've got quite a hectic schedule with family life

and trying to juggle it and trying to find some fishing yeah and I'm probably equally as busy

I work in marketing have done all my life so fishing for me is squeezed in my bloody busy life

but yeah very passionate same as mark passionate carp anglers have been for many, many years.

And if I don't get any fishing time, which some months I just don't, I don't know, nothing more

than grabbing a cup of tea with somebody on the bank and having a good old carpy chat.

I think it's just another way of getting your fix, Mark, isn't it?

Absolutely, absolutely, yeah. A lot of the time I'm doing exactly the same. It's looking after a little baby girl and got one on the way and being busy at the work.

Coming down for a couple of tears about my fishing fix for sometimes a few days at a time.

You know, the reality is, us guys who work in the industry, you don't get as much fishing as probably everyone perceives.

And you've got to try

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