Shannonbridge Fishing Report …27^th June 2005.

The sunny conditions for the week were not welcomed by the handful of visiting anglers.

The river level has continued to drop and is 2.3 Metres on the measuring scale at the village bridge today. On Thursday a light wind ruffled the surface and more fish were caught.

Neil Davis who has retired to Spain fished Bullock Island on 20 /6 /05 for four hours and was very happy catching ten pounds of roach and rudd with floating maggots. He moved to the River Suck later and had five pounds of roach rudd and perch in three hours.

Dave Feeley from Biggleswade and his eleven year old daughter Kathleen have just completed their holiday. On the 19^th June at Ragherabeg they caught 29 Lbs of roach, skimmer bream perch and hybrids using red maggot in sun with a slight breeze.

Kathleen had a tench weighing 3.5 Lbs from the Grand Canal on 21^st June.The next two days on the Grand Canal using maggot and sweetcorn they had non stop fish for five hours and the harder the wind blew the more they caught. Catch included eel, roach, rudd, bream and hybrid and one roach weighed 2 Lb 1 Oz. .Russ Hinchcliffe and Matt Harris from Cheshire fished on the River Suck on 20^th June and using maggot on the feeder they had a 60 Lbs mixed bag of bream , tench, hybrids, roach, perch, rudd and pike in warm conditions.

Bob Tilley and Kevin Boltz from Bristol have just arrived and on 24^th June they fished the Grand Canal using red maggot on the pole and Bob had 27 Lbs of bream and hybrid.

Bream to 2.5 Lbs. Kevin had 15 Lbs of roach and small skimmers. They found that the fishing improved greatly after some boats had passed through and clouded the water.

Next day Kevin had 34 Lbs of bream and hybrids in the same swim and one tench that weighed 3 Lb. The heaviest bream also weighed 3 Lbs.

Brothers Rob and Mike Peake from Kent had a plan to night fish one of their favoured swims on Lough Ree. The first night Rob caught four hybrid and Mick caught three perch. The next night fished very poor and they changed to early morning fishing.

Rob had a best bag of 20 Lb of mixed fish from the River Brosna and Mick Peake had a best bag of 25 Lbs also from the Brosna. They used corn, worm and maggot on the feeder.

Richard Reeves from Calne finishes his holiday on Wednesday. On Saturday he fished the Hot Water outlet and used braid line and an eight pound bottom fishing for tench and was snapped off five times when hooked in a fish.

Local anglers Dara Moran and Declan Price went trolling in a boat yesterday for pike and were happy to catch five decent fish which were returned alive.

Just arrived is Geoffrey Motron from Boston Lincolnshire and fished the River Suck yesterday catching 20 Lb of bits. This year he is without his friend Terry Dawson. Some years ago they hired a cruiser and fished the River Suck on their first evening. Next day the moved upstream on the River Shannon above Devenish and they caught Hybrids that they did not believe existed. Geoffrey is returning to that swim today and has promised to let us know how he fares out.