At least someone had a good day:
Went down the canal again, had my permit checked by the bailiff, then he told me that "you can't fish between the white bollards" so I moved and recast to the same spots ! All was going well despite it being quiet, until two blokes turned up with four kids....and started to pike fish...all of them stood in a line, one with a floated dead and the other five with lures...then against all the odds one of the lads caught a pike on the dead bait, I started to watch some kind of horror picture, the pike was bought towards the bank, someone got the net then put it away again as one of the lads decided he was going to "chin" the pike out, but the pike was not happy and kept jumping about and knocking itself against the brick jetty the lad kept hesitating and the pike was more agitated, just as I started up the bank with my net another bloke (who had been piking further down)walked up and lifted the pike put, it was then duly weighed and thrown back into the canal, yes thrown not put. At this point I packed up and went home...before I said something and more than likely got my head kicked in....sorry for the rant but it really annoys me !