Fishing around Shannonbridge

Gunter Nauwelaers and Frans De Meudler from Belgium fished the River Shannon for pike using dead eel and one day they caught two pike that weighed 22 Lbs and 23 Lbs which they described as nice fish and which they returned alive.

Elga Nagel from Germany also fished the Shannon and fishing with lures they caught five pike measuring 50, 60, 80 and 90 Centimetre and one that measured one metre which is about a twenty pounds weight.. Comment – “very fine fish and all returned alive”.

Anthony Price from Wolverhampton was fishing for coarse fish and baited a swim that he fished for a week. Using red maggot as bait he found that the fishing improved as the week went on and he caught 46 Lbs, 64 Lbs and 112 Lbs of roach for his best days.

Ray Jones a friend of Anthony Price had a best bag of 84 Lbs of roach and he said he had one fish that weighed 3.5 Lbs

Brian Fallon from Athlone used legered worm to catch a brown trout that weighed 3 Lbs while fishing the Cross River in sunny conditions. It was a good fighter.

Alan Wrigley from Norwich fished for two days at Correen Ford on the River Suck and caught 30 Lbs and 33 Lbs of roach that weighed up to two pounds. He enjoyed the lovely surroundings and hospitality. His bait was red maggot and caster.

Ken Wrigley his brother also fished at Correen Ford on the River Suck and in sunny weather he caught 20 Lbs of roach and one bream on Day 1 and had 40 Lbs of roach on the second day.

Peter Lawlor from Bray fished the Hot Water outlet at Shannonbridge on Friday and caught two tench and a quantity of roach while fishing with maggot and caster.

Mark Pearson from London was here for the May weekend and yesterday he fished a legered lure while fishing from a rowboat and caught a 22 Lbs pike at the end of Long Island upstream of Shannonbridge.