In The Sun newspaper last Friday Nick Parry has a photograph and story about
Dublin angler Nigel Scully fishing at The Hot Water outlet from the Power Plant.
Nigel caught a best personal best perch which weighed 2 Lbs 7 Ounces.
Very good but a short time later he hooked and landed another whopper which
weighed in at 3 Lb. 4 oz. Nigel was using a quiver tip and a bunch of lively red
maggots on his hook.
The fishing authoruties class a perch weighing 3 lb as a specimen and the Irish
record for perch is 5 lb - 8 oz which was caught on Lough Erne in 1946 by an
angler named S.Drum.