Well, welcome to the cart fishing podcast, episode 88.

And tonight, well, it's like tonight, Matthew, Matthew I'm gonna be wrapped up in a

wintry bivy and it's half past five and it's dark for another 14 hours how'd

you feel about that mark yeah it is dark gloomy the wind is howling at a moment so

we're carried in the bivvy aren aren't we, trying to get the podcast, well, started. But it's, yeah, 14 hours ahead of us of darkness, isn't it? Something like that. Yeah, looking forward to it. Are you? Hey, what, do you do, we don't do much, I don't, but do you miss, like, those long, drawn, wintry nights? Do you not find them boring? Yeah, absolutely. They're horrendous. Yeah. What do people do for all that? What did you do as a kid? Like, I can't ever remember them being this long when I carpfished as a kid. Like, what were we doing in the night as a kid? Not a lot, really. Think you think about it, it's, yeah, there was no technology or anything back then, was there? Yeah, there was no phones, no iPads, no nothing. No, nothing. I still can't remember it being like a boring, long, drawn-out process. Do you think it's because our focus and our mind and our kind of ability to not do nothing has changed quite possibly yeah

over the last couple of decades with the rise of all technology and that is everything's on

hand isn't it so it be easy you could waste a you could waste a couple hours couldn't you

flicking through social media scrolling tonight doom scrolling doom scrolling perfect night for it

i'd say hey it's just uh it caught me by surprise, actually. We're obviously out fishing. Um, yeah. And it's the first time we've been out for a long time, it seems. And, uh, yeah, the obviously clocks of, uh, have turned to winter mode. Yeah. And, um, I'm sat here now thinking to myself, well, we're not exactly reeling them in, although we have had a fairly successful day, which we'll come on to. But yeah, I'm thinking, we've got the podcaster, we're up to a while a couple of hours away. But after that, mate, it's still a good old 10 hours we're going to be flapping around with. We've just stuffed ourselves, aren't we, with a huge, huge meal of pasta. yeah um so that is going to take its toll hopefully

we're getting through the podcast right falling asleep because yeah it's a it's a belly full of pasta

it's uh making me sleepy yeah mate come on you're doing it a massive injustice it's not just a belly

full of pasta it's not just a belly full of pasta. Can I break it down into its

into its elements just to sort of like sell it a bit better? You can. Yeah, you have to give the

credit to the founder of it though. The creator. The creator. Yeah. Well, I am going to give

credit to the creator and the creator is Mr Mark Bryan and the ironic thing is so don't

don't twist and turn this story into something that it's not but Mark used to cook this for his

good lady Clow when he was in the dating phase yeah this is early on this was moonlighting yeah

moonlight is early on this one so this was you proving to Claire that you could actually cook

cook something something just anything yeah yeah and uh all those years later about three months ago

you said oh i remember a dish i used to cook Claire yeah and i'm going to cook it for you yeah and at

that point we were out fishing yeah in the middle night. And I didn't really understand why you suddenly wanted to bust out the romantic meal for me. Yeah. Well, he just come back to it. There's a flash. I was like, oh, that's a meal I totally forgot about. And it just come back in a blinding flash. I was like, oh, my God, that meal will be so good when we're fishing. And it is simple as well, isn't it? It's so good. So, like, what we've had tonight is that you get some bacon lardons. Now, obviously, the story that we've just spoke about, it is bacon lardons. Lardons. Yeah, yeah. It might have been something else when you're cooking it for Clare.

Yeah.

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