Well, welcome to episode 18 of the cart fishing podcast.

Yes, hello guys, and you join us on the banks of Cotswold Water Park Lake.

And it's decidedly mild out there at the boat, Mike, isn't it?

It's what, 11 degrees?

God be.

Yes, it's in double figures, mate.

And it's, what day is it today?

It's January the, oh, I don't know, I'm confused now.

29th, 30th, today.

Yeah.

Yeah, so this time last month when we were sat down, mate,

we were wishing everyone a happy Christmas,

and that seems a million miles away.

Yeah, it seems a lot's gone on in that time.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, there seems a lot's gone on in that, in that time. Yeah, definitely.

Yeah, there's another angler on the lake, isn't there? There's Damo. Yeah, he's just down the bank from me, yeah. Snoring away, old Damo, fair play. Was he snoring away? No, he wasn't

when I got there, but he will be snoring by the time I walked past him him which is going to be in about an hour's time probably yeah he'd be snoring away i reckon so he gets fair play he gets here in the dark straight from work and that and

he's usually pretty tired on that by the time he gets the rods out and has a bit of food and that so yeah good luck

to him mate it's uh it's usually that's exactly what we do isn't it if we're fishing we're usually doing a work night and in the winter like it is now those rods

went out just before luckily today just before it got dark but that's rare usually in the winter

for us we're doing the same mate aren't we packing up from work getting here pitch black

you've got no chance of watching those rigs out in flight which uh you know despite all those years of

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