I trickled small balls of brown crumb/maggots in the water by hand as I was only one rod length from the bank.
Catching from the off, I had lots of very small perch and one roach with pretty much a fish every cast.
Then it went quiet and as I lifted a perch from the water I realised why.
A pike lunged at it and it had what they call a lucky escape.
It was just a second away from being locked in the jaws of the bigger predator.