It may have appeared elsewhere as well, but the rat lure and the rat-in-a-pike picture are in Buller's Rigs & Tackles, published in 1967. Gord Burton showed me a picture once of a coot being extracted from a double - surprisingly small bird once the feathers are soaked, I thought. And on a session with John Watson on Rockland Broad once, we were watching a moorhen with five chicks when there was a splash, and four chicks remained. Later on, there were only three....