Well, welcome to the carp fishing podcast, episode 94.

And today, because the lakes are closed and we've had intermittent showers, we are rocking and rolling, glitzy lifestyle of bait makers, and we're sat in your van outside Bakeworks HQ. Yeah, that's it, mate. It's not, it could have been worse settings, I suppose, but at least there's a couple of birds cheaper. And the suns just come up as well, isn't it? Yeah, it's lovely, mate. It's lovely. And I must admit that I always want the ambience. So it's kind of the, it's a halfway house. We can still have the ambience of the birds tweeting. In front of us is still kind of loads of foliage where all the birds are sat and enjoying the joys of spring. And yeah. I'm thinking maybe we should have drove to the lake and just at least face the lake and watch a bit of water.

But never mind.

Do you know why birds sing in the morning?

Go on.

Because they ain't got to go to fucking work.

That's very true.

That's a classic statement.

I've seen that recently and I just thought, what a great, what a great sentiment.

They're really happy. They're getting up. They've got a day to doce around and enjoy their life. All of us are forced to work. Yeah, well, there you go. What do you do in the morning? Has you got a morning routine? Yeah, so I usually, I get up fairly early at the moment. Getting up fairly early, I usually go and got a couple of stockponds. I go and feed the fish, get out and the fresh out. That's nice for the first 10, 20 minutes. And then by the time I get back in the house, the kids have woken up, and it's all hands to the deck, isn't it? Yeah, is it? Oh, mate, just trying to get them fed and get them ready for school. Trying to organise myself as well. It's like a whirlwind. It's a whirlwind, but I get that lovely 10, 20 minutes about sort of half past five to sort of six in the morning. Is that how a turn you get out? It's usually half five? Half five or six. What time do you go to bed? About half nine. Oh God, yeah, that's... I'm still wired at that point. I'm still well up and overthinking and obsessing about life. Yeah. I don't think my brain quietens down until about probably 11, 12 o'clock at night. Oh really? Oh, really? Oh, yeah. And what time do you get up then in the morning? Six. Okay, so you're getting seven hours, aren't you? Six, seven hours.

Yeah, yeah. It's funny, the older you get, the less sleep I think I seem to be able to obtain. Even if I want to lie in, so I always think to myself, oh, Sunday tomorrow, I'm going to try and turn my phone off for a few hours and I'm going to, I want to lie in. But mate, it just don't happen.

Your body clock's ping.

I don't, man.

I always want to be doing something. phone off for a few hours and I want a lion. But, mate, it just don't happen. Your body clock's

ping. I don't matter. Yeah, I always want to be doing something. I just find it really boring, sat in doing nothing in bed and laying in. I can't do it. But I want to stay, this is what I mean, I want to stay asleep. I'd love to stay asleep till nine. Yeah. And I think, oh, what's the time? nine, I've had a lion. I feel rejuvenated. My body clock does not allow that. There is no way that my body clock would still stay asleep till nine o'clock. Yeah. Whereas when you're younger, like my son, Declan, for instance, honestly, during school holidays, if I didn't like get him up to have some sort of like routine, he would go asleep at whatever time and he'd

he'd have you a bed at 12 o'clock in the afternoon yeah yeah yeah it's absolutely

crazy but um yeah nice mate that that outside time is important isn't it no it's good yeah

it's good getting out getting out fresh air in the morning just go and get into nature

isn't it for a few feelings for a few minutes, I've been feeding the fish. Also, I've got a new pond that filled out of water. So I've got fish in there at the moment, and I've got sort of got a new pond syndrome where there's a bit of ammonia spike in there at the moment because the pond isn't sort of matured, if you like. How do you know that for listeners' perspective? How do you know that you've got a pneumonia spike? Well, you wouldn't know. That's the thing. The first thing you would know about a pneumonia spike is potentially the fish. The fish would go off the feed, but then they could start dying and then you think you have to try and, oh, hang on a minute. Oh. That's my phone. I thought I sw, I put it's because I got this and, Yeah, take that off. Sorry guys. The classic, the classic phone in the car syndrome. There you go. There you go. It should be off. Yeah, so how do you know you get an ammonia spike then? You don't? Well, you don't. It's invisible. obviously behaviour of fish fish, but if the fish start dying, then, you know, ammonia can become quite toxic at high levels. So...

And what's happening to create an ammonia spike? So the fish are then eating the food that you're putting in. But just the nature of the fish being in the lake, they're going to be peeing, essentially, and crapping.

That's putting a load on the pond in terms of going from nitrates, nitrites being produced.

Yeah.

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