Shannonbridge Fishing Report 3rd July 2005

Weather during the week was mainly dry with the occasion shower and the bit of wind we got changing direction at times. River level remained low and the marker under the

village bridge has dropped below 2.4 metres.

Kevin Brocow from East Yorkshire fished the Hot Water stretch on 25 /6 /05 in overcast conditions using a stick float in the main flow with maggot and caster and loose feed tactics caught 33 Lbs of hybrid, roach, rudd and skimmer.

Simon Scott from Glenamaddy fished the River Suck on 26^th June and in warm overcast conditions used a feeder and a cocktail of maggot, caster and corn in brown crumb.

He caught a 60 Lb mixed bag of roach, hybrid and bream.

Richard Reeves from Calne has completed his holiday and on the 17^th June at Meelick in overcast conditions used a feeder and red maggot to catch 20 Lb of hybrid, roach and perch. Richard noted no small skimmers and asks are the bream not breeding.

Next day he had 17 Lb of roach and hybrid. He wants to know if all the new fish are hybrid.

On 20^th June Richard fished the Hot Water and caught eight bream to 2.5 Lb and a tench over 4 Lb. The bream were caught after dark.

On June 22^nd Richard again fished the Hot Water and caught three tench. Best 4.5 Lb.

He told us that he was broken five times that day while using braid line and an eight pound bottom.

Geoffrey Mottram and Cyril Cater from Boston Lincs were fishing the area for a week living on a cruiser. They fished the first day at Clonmacnois and Geoffrey caught a 6 Lb bream on his first cast. But it was roach after that.

They fished the River Suck for four days using red maggot and feeder and Geoffrey had

mixed bags weighing 25 Lb, 20 Lb, 30 Lb and 14 Lb. His biggest bream weighed 3 Lb.

He started fishing at 4 pm and found that the boat traffic has increased and that the pike attacks were a nuisance.

Cyril Cater fished alongside and had six roach to 1.5 Lb and a good hybrid at Clonmacnois. On the Suck Cyril had mixed bags of 12 Lb, 12 Lb, 20 Lb and six pounds of small roach on their last day the 29^th June. He was broke with pike on eleven occasions and his best bream was 3 Lb and his best hybrid weighed 2 Lb.

Bob Tilley fished the Grand Canal on 1^st July in overcast conditions and used a pole with red maggot to catch 60 Lb of bream and hybrid with one tench that weighed 6 Lb.

The Bristol man told us that it is best to fish the canal which has become well muddied up after passing boat traffic.

Nick Hyde and Marge Tinort from Headcorn in Kent fished the River Suck for a short time on 2^nd July in overcast and windy conditions.. Marge caught five perch on her first fishing holiday. Not bad she says. Nick caught 12 Lb of roach.