Nice short drive today to Mathern Mill for an open match on the motorway lake. Realy fancied the bottm end of the lake and just fish for the skimmers. First into the draw bag and peg 20 sticks to my fingers. Well, to say I was dissapointed was an understatement. As far away from where I wanted to be as I could be. Plus ive drawn this peg a few times and its Rudd soup. Almost impossible to get a bait through the tiny rudd that live in this peg usually. Set up 4 rigs. 2 .5 slims with different colour tips, as during the day the sun would be straight in front so a change of colour might be needed. Both set the same to fish maggot or soft pellet for anything silver. An edge rig that never got touched, and a .5 slim for carp. That also never came out the rig roost. All day was spent switching between two lines, where Id fed chopped worm in groundbait in one and maggot and micros in the other. Both at 13 mwtres. After 30 minutes I started to get small hybrids over the micro line. Had a few so switched to the groundbait line where there were skimmers. All day I`d get acouple then had to move. It was a steady flow all day and whene the match ended I thought I had around 18lb. Surprisingly the scales went round to 26-04 which won the silvers and a nice pick up of some coin. It was a nice busy day with plenty of bites. Finally got a few fish out of this peg. Winner on the day was Rob Skellet on peg 3 with three carp for 37-14. Big fish!!. It didnt fish well today and I recon I was lucky to sit on a few feeding fish. And not a rudd in sight. But ya need a bit of luck some days. Full weigh sheet below.
