Shannonbridge Fishing Report from May 1^st.2005

Mick Wykes from Bury fished the River Brosna using maggot on a stick float and on May 1^st he caught 20 Lbs of roach and hybrids .Mixed bag and good fishing. The next day he fished the same swim and had over 100 Lbs of roach hybrids for his best ever catch.

Dave Ashton from Boston also fished the Brosna on the same days using red maggot and caster and had a bag of 30 Lbs of roach and hybrids on the first day and 52

Lbs of roach and cracker hybrids on the next day using stick float.

Brother Phil Ashton recorded bags of 25 Lbs and 56 Lbs of roach and hybrid for his two days using red maggot and float. Fish were in a bay of the river.

Larry Pebworth from Bristol fished the canal and had 21 Lbs of roach and hybrids.

Jon Barnes from York fished the River Suck with feeder and red maggot on 3^rd May and caught three bream. Comment – slow / levels high.

On 4^th May Tony Stockdale from Malton fished the Hot Water stretch and had one tench weighing 4’5 Lbs and twelve roach to a pound. Fairly slow going

.Dave Howarth from Sheffield fished the Hot Water on May 1^st in wind and rain and used stick float and red maggot to catch 60 Lbs of roach hybrids. Dave says not to be afraid to fish the turbulent water.

Dennis Crossland from Sheffield his friend also fished the Hot Water and used red maggot on the waggler from the rocks and had 23 Lbs of roach and hybrids.

Frank “The Tank” Seal from Sheffield has just finished a ten day break from making Fish Tanks and fished the Grand Canal using red maggot and the pole in the wind to catch 60 Lbs of roach bream and one pike “which broke me pole the B****.

Frank fished Lough Derg with red maggot and the feeder to catch 62 Lbs of roach to 1.5 Lbs, and hybrids to 2 Lbs that caused him to leave his mug and a saucepan on the shore.

Frank fished the Brosna also using the feeder and red maggots and had 65 Lbs of roach and skimmers.

The youngest of Peter Howes party of 21 Anglers Edward Rawlings ( 15 ) from Basing Stoke fished the Hot Water on the 5^th May and in sunny conditions Edward used dead bait to catch land and release a beautiful pike weighing 20.5 Lbs. Edward also caught a 17 Lb pike in the same session.

Christian Neyries from Berlin and is fishing the Shannon on a cruiser. In a session at Clonmacnois he had three pike measuring 48 Cm, 51 Cm, and 65 Cm. Christian is hoping for a meter size like Edward Rowlings caught

John Phillips from South Wales arrived with a present of Walsh Cakes and was rewarded for his good deed when he fished the Hot Water using Lamprey sections in a strong North West wind catching four pike weighing 18 Lbs, 10 Lbs, 8 Lb and 7 Lb. Cakes were lovely.

Simon Preece is a friend of John Phillips and he fished Devenish Island on the 6^th May and using sprat he landed a 12 Lb pike and thee small ones.

Next day they returned to the Hot Water and John Phillips had two pike in the ten pound range using Lamprey and Sprat.

Terry and Brenda Archibald from Doncaster fished the canal at Shannonharbour for two days using feeder and maggot. Terry had bags of 42 Lbs and 26 Lbs of hybrids which he comments he has not seen here before.

Wife Brenda had a bag of hybrids that weighed 17 Lbs. They noted that the bites were very light and easily missed if you were not on the ball.

Dave Gallivan from Swansea and his friend Tony West from Caerphilly are no newcomers to fishing the area and they baited up the same swims for two nights on the Shannon Backwater and it paid off on the third day when Dave using worm and maggot with a feeder had a mixed bag of lovely bream to 6 Lbs’ tench and big hybrid that weighed over 100 Lbs.

Tony West had a mixed bag weighing 56 Lbs that included bream and a 5 Lb tench .

River Levels have been dropping well in the past few days and dropped about four inches on Saturday and another two inches yesterday. River is flowing strong and many anglers are fishing off the flow in bays and backwaters.