Went out with a mate I haven't been with for ages on a fairly exclusive water. He was quite looking forward to it.
Telling him how mint and hard fighting the pike were, how only me and two other guys fish the place for them, every other one's a double etc.
Clack. Wee-ee-ee-ee get a take. Catch the mankiest looking pike I've seen all season, great big chomp mark on its side, blind in one eye and almost white.
Err....
Mate eventually nails a nice double and a bait-sized pikelet.
Then I get another take, and it's the minger again.