Fishing Report …Shannonbridge . Dated 30^th May 2005.

Weather has been generally windy and wet for the week with sunshine and fine dry days on Saturday and today. The river levels which Brian from the Barge checks on the gauge at the village bridge have risen to 2.5 Metres on Thursday, 2.7 Metres on Friday and 2.75 Metres yesterday.

Again many anglers are not giving fish a chance to find their bait and would more than likely improve their catches if they fished the same swim for a number of days if not a week.

Keith Lilley from Halesowen, West Midlands pike fished on the River Shannon on May 26^th and had many pike up to ten pounds or over. Boing Boing.

His friend “Robbo” from Smethwick had a 40 Lbs mixed bag and four pike. Best 12 Lbs while fishing the Hot Water on May 26^th.

Mick Grainger from Yardley fished the River Suck on May 24^th and caught 20 Lbs of hybrids and a pike that weighed 4 Lbs using red maggot.

Next day he fished Hollygrove Lake and caught 30 Lbs of roach and hybrid on red maggot.

Matthew Porter from Solihull fished Hollygrove Lake on 26^th May in windy conditions and caught 40 Lbs of hybrid and roach again on red maggot.

George Stokes from Walsall was over on a short holiday celebrating his 65^th birthday and had 42 Lbs of roach and hybrid while fishing the Brosna mouth using black caster.

Keith Davies , from Walsall fished the Hot Water on May 24^th in calm conditions and using float and caster had 35 Lbs of roach and hybrid in a ninty minute challenge match.

The next two days Keith fished the River Shannon at Clonmacnois and using float and caster had 30 Lbs of roach to 1.5 Lbs and hybrid to 2.5 Lbs in a fish a bite experience.

The following day 26^th May Keith again fished Clonmacnois and caught 50 Lbs of roach and hybrid.

Mick Daulman from Walsall fished the Hot Water on May 23^rd and caught rudd, perch and two tench that weighed 4 Lb and 6 Lb. fishing with red maggot.

On May 26^th Mick Daulman landed 8 Lb of hybrid at the Hot Water in one hour using red maggot.

Steve Jevens from Walsall fished the Hot Water stretch on May 23^rd and using float and red maggot in windy conditions landed a 3 Lb and a 6 Lb tench with other fish.. Pike were plentiful and Steve lost five roach to pike in succession.

Una Corbett from Hertfordshire had a large pike on a red maggot while fishing in what she describes as bloody awful weather.

Regular visitor Ev Evendyngen from Holland had two pike measuring 80 Cm. and 60 Cm. while fishing the Shannon using maggot and worm. He also caught six roach and two dozen perch.

Colin Blake from York is pike fishing and yesterday he caught two pike weighing 6 Lb and 11 Lb while using dead bait on the River Shannon.

Malcolm Rafter from York was pleased with the sunshine and his first day’s catch of 26 Lbs of bream and skimmers using red maggot on the ledger.