Pleasure fishing at Mathern mill

 I had a day off today as im working this weekend so bit the bullet and got my gear out and went to Mathern Mill hoping to find the skimmers. At plonked my gear down at peg 10 as this can hold a few skimmers. It was flat calm when I got there and the water was pretty clear and very cold. I got my whips out of retirement which is something I haven`t done since I lived in australia. I set up to fish short on the whip for bits while the skimmer lines at 11m settled. I started at about 5m feeding maggot. just passed the shelf but didnt get a bite. So shallowed up and went close to the weed on my left and it was pretty hectic for a while untill they vanished. I went out to 11m on double maggot but I had a terible problem as all the leaves that started on the other side of the lake had drifted over and it was a nightmare trying to get a rig in. The photo does do the problem justice as to how bad it was at times

And it stayed like that for the rest of the session. It washard work as the skimmer had shut up shop and all I got was perch all day. Everywhere I could get a rig through I got perch. They were inssecent.

I ended up with about 12lb of mainly perch with a few rudd and micro carp that were caught next to the weedbed. A pretty dissapointing day in the end, but a bad day fishing is still better than a good day in work.