03/12/2025
🌿 How My Van, My Fiancée & Fishing Saved My Life 🎣🚐🐾
A few years ago, I honestly thought my fishing days were over...
After losing half my lung and living with constant pain, I couldn’t set up a bivvy or even cast anymore — every cast felt like my lung was being ripped from my rib cage. It broke me.
Fishing was my peace, my escape from the noise in my head.
Then everything changed. My lung collapsed and exploded — and if it wasn’t for my amazing fiancée Nicole, I wouldn’t be here writing this. She phoned the ambulance and saved my life that day. ❤️
Without her, none of this would exist — not me, not the van, not the business, nothing. She’s my rock and my reason for still being here.
So, I decided if I couldn’t set a bivvy up anymore... I’d build one on wheels.
I bought a cheap van and turned it into my own portable bivvy — my freedom machine.
Added solar, power, a bed for me and Zaza, everything I needed to keep doing what I love.
Then I got myself a bait boat, because casting was no longer possible. That’s when the ideas started…
I began designing and 3D printing my own bait boat mods, because nothing out there worked how I needed it to.
Soon, other anglers saw my setup and wanted the same — and that’s how Lungy Luke’s 3D was born. 🎣
It’s not always easy.
With my lung and back pain, ADHD, and all the mental battles from a rough childhood, even walking can be a struggle some days.
But when I’m sat lakeside, rain or shine, with Zaza by my side and the water calm in front of me… everything goes quiet.
The birds, the breeze, the peace — that’s what keeps me grounded. 🕊️
I just want to give my kids the best life I can — a better one than I had. I love them, Nicole, and Zaza with all my heart.
And if my story helps even one person realise they can still find peace no matter what life throws at them… then it’s all worth it.
Fishing saved me.
The van gave me freedom.
3D printing gave me purpose.
And Nicole — she gave me life back. ❤️
— Lungy Luke 🧡
🎣 Lungy Luke’s 3D
🐾 Zaza – my shadow, my calm
🚐 Van-life x Fishing = Freedom
💍 Nicole – my strength and my reason