Well, welcome to the cart fishing podcast, episode 92. And the year is whizzing by, mate.

It is.

We're sat at the lake and once again with no rods. Oh, mate. I'm gutted. I'm gutted. My van is still in for repair. I don't get it back to the 19th of May. What are you doing in that space of time? Well, the problem is, you know, in my van, there's lots of little bits and pieces related to what we're fishing. There's like my little m'lens, for example. All the little bits and pieces that you just forget about. Nothing of value, but it's a little tinky bits, in it. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So, yeah, the van's gone in. I'm not getting that back until 19th of May.'s the estimated date it may be longer than that

what are they doing oh mate it's a complete new panel on the side it's a vw transporter and it was

on the driver's side the big main panel the main panel so it's yeah yeah it's painful it's

close to be a right off from from what i gather but luckily it wasn't um and they're going to fix it, but it's just taking time, just taking so much time. But the upshot of all that is, I'm driving around in the Bateworks company van, which is a big... It's a big lute and it's a big van, isn't it? It's not an average-sized van. No. you're you're you're a rolling advert i'm

i am i can't so i can't be discreet i literally mind the water park now i get beeped and honked

out all the time everyone knows exactly where i am so it's really put paid to um to my fishing as well a little

bit because my my gear is scattered far and wide at my house in

many rooms yeah um and because the van's being used to basically the van goes between two sites

we've got two got a manufacturing then we've got a distribution area um and a mail order side the

business obviously so the van runs between the two delivering product daily. So I'm sort of stuck in terms of I've got to have the van back early. And anyway, it's just, it's a bit of a nightmare. So I'm not fishing at the moment, which is a real painful because it's beautiful weather. Although this north-easily has been kicking around for ages now. Yeah. There's still fish to be caught, isn't there?

I can translate that into more of layman's terms of how I see it.

Go on, then.

Is Claire cannot now see you chuck rods and day session kit into the back of the

Bateworks van to go and sneak off for a few hours.

That's more accurate.

After work before you get him. Yeah. That's right, isn't it? That's fair. Yeah, so historically, if there's an early day or, you know, there's an hour or two spare before you've got to do the kids run or the bath time at five o'clock, you're at the lake for an hour or two, aren't you? Yeah. The rods are sort of stashed in the car and in the van.

And I bet you're absolutely like lost. clock. I'll nip out. You're at the lake for an hour or two, aren't you? Yeah. The rods are sort of stashed in the car and run the van.

And I bet you're absolutely, like, lost without that.

I'm lost.

I'm lost.

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