I remember once when I was fishing the Grand Union Canal near Watford with a friend of mine and we found a large shoal of decent sized Perch so continued fishing into the evening; however we had promised our wives we'd be home early to take them out for the evening.
So we told them that some gits had stolen our bikes and that we'd spent the last hour or so chasing after them to get our bikes back, it was raining by then and we looked like drowned rats and the wives totally believed us and my wife run me a nice hot bath and cooked me a lovely meal and pampered me all evening, and his wife did the same.
Little did our wives know we had been sitting by the canal taking advantage of those lovely big Perch into the evening. LOL.
Keith