Mike’s Diary

All work and no play!

Unfortunately fishing is currently the last thing on my mind. After a long hard battle with the local planning authority we finally received planning permission to build a house overlooking our lovely lake here in Somerset and the build has already started.

I'm project managing as much of the build as I can between running the bait business and as you can imagine this is taking up a huge amount of time and commitment with 14-hour days seven days a week being the norm. (Apologies to customers finding it difficult to get hold of me lately but I always answer emails if you can't get me on the phone)

As we all know, such commitments often mean personal sacrifices in life and mine has to be my fishing! The rods have been put away for several months whilst everything is put into place but I only have to look at the stunning views to know the sacrifices will be worth every minute once everything is finally finished.

The foundations are coming along nicely and as I write this we are close to laying the block and beam floor. The main house build then starts in mid July and should be finished by late September. In the background I'm slowly adding a few words to Carp Life 2 with a view to releasing in late 2012 if all goes to plan.

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking everyone for sending in catch reports on a regular basis. It keeps me in tune with reality and is the next best thing to actually being there myself - if only!!