Nice one Mark, it sounded like you all had a great time, one way or another.
Its true what you say, one of my old angling clubs was full of 40-somethings men who, when on a weekend outing, were more like 13 to14 year olds et out for the day.
We had countless ground bait fights if the fishing was slow and I've lost count of the times when someone would get to his peg, exhausted, only to find a couple of weighty rocks in his tackle box . . . . . . . .
It never happened to me though, no idea why not, of course . . . . .