Welcome to the Cartfish podcast Episode 44.

Yep. Hello guys. Hope you're keeping well and I tell you this weather has gone crazy

hasn't it the last week or so what a difference it is from last week to today we've got

just had a bit of snow haven't we? mate snow was forecast and I thought the I thought the copsewards

might have missed it because we got our own microclimate rain here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The sun was shining yesterday and everything was well in the world and we've turned up today to record this mate and we've had to literally grab our kit and seek shelter in, was it snow or sort of sleety hailstorms?

Yeah, sort of sleety snow and it's been like a

almost a 15 to 16 degrees slide from what it was about four or five days ago where we had that

ridiculously warm weather came in for like a week wasn't it absolutely gorgeous the whole

whole UK was bathed in double figure temperatures and the

the carp catches sort of went wild didn't they last year we noticed it on all the sort of social media feeds and they all come out to play

mate and I seen when that weather was biblical you see them too because I think for the first time this year

all the cart was sort of creeping

into the margins and at the top end where we are today um there were a carp actually up near the

surface for the first time that I personally seen this year yeah and that was for me too much to resist

I literally drove back home got my floater kit out d it off. It's usually in the car all the time,

but I take it out obviously for the winter and went back up to the top end where the wind was

pushing, which is obviously significant this time of year with that warm water being pushed that way,

even though it was a norvidly wind, the fish were on the end of it. And yeah, managed, the fish were like cruising,

probably 18 inches underneath the surface, but because the water clout was so good, you can see

them, it's like a big aquarium. And yeah, for want to a better word, I pestered them with

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