Mate caught ‘my’ sick mirror

My mate and i are fishing our local sandpit again, first real session of this year (on this lake), each hooked a nice 20+lb common in the first night/morning. Around noon we both took turns watching the rods while the other one went home for a quick bite, shower and toilet break. I was litterally on my way back when he called me right after he netted this old scaly mirror, i would even say it's a linear. He caught it on one of my rods. I was super happy for him but at the same time gutted i missed out on catching one of the bigguns of the lake. Anyone else experienced something similar? 😂
Anyway, super sick 45lbs mirror!!
We're staying another night, hopefully we can get another one.

Cheers