Show him how its done (NOT!)

Returned to the canal this evening with Mentalor for his next lesson. I had initially planned to fish at the Trent Bridge end of the canal, but, after parking at the end of iremonger road and walking along the towpath discovered that instead of the grass verge near the lock, the towpath now extends all the way to the river - and with pedestrians and cyclists, and nowhere to stick a bankstick, fishing here appeared to be off the agenda. We returned to the car & headed to the opposite end of the canal, back to Beeston.
After the poor performance a few weeks ago we fished between some willow trees towards the end of the moored boats. I fished four rods, all aimed at a chance carp, but more realistically expecting some chub. baits were a snowman rigged pair of spicy shrimp bilies, tutti frutti boilie, halibut pellet and lobworm. The boilies were bolt rigged and the halibut pellet and lob were fished on light running legers and each was attached to a pva stocking containing 10 crushed baits.
Mentalor was legering redworms on one rod and floatfishing redworms on the other. There were plenty of fish topping, but casting the light waggler he was using far enough "upstream" and across to trot back through on the right line was causing him some problems.  Handing him a 2 swan chubber, a quick retackle solved the problem, and it wasn't long before a chublet obliged and Mentalor added yet another new species to his list - first chub and on a chubber.
This wasnt the only bite Mentalor was to get, there were two sharp raps, an hour or so apart, on the legered worms, and there were a couple of missed bites on the float. We stuck at it until about 9pm, but it ended 1-0 to Mentalor, my rods had not had a touch, I was particularly disappointed with the performance of the lobworm, but regardless, it was a disappointing performance overall.