Shannonbridge Fishing Report …Dated 25^th July 2005

The weather was good for fishing with lots of overcast periods and some occasion rain which fell mostly at night.

Two of our local anglers decided to fish for three nights and had excellent results with fishing particularly good from 4.00 am onwards. On two of the sessions on the River Shannon they had over 100 Lb bags of fish. Roach and hybrid and quite a number of good skimmer bream were caught and some tench. One morning just after 8am they decided to fish until 9am. Soon afterwards the taller angler noticed a tench roll in his friends swim. His friend cast out and caught a 4 Lb tench. A few minutes later another tench rolled and another cast caught another tench. This happened five times before 9am when they quit. They fished a different bay on the River Shannon on the third night but did not do quite as well. Still they had over 50 Lb between them.

Stuart Traves and Nigel Jones from Somerset fished the River Shannon on 21^st July in cloudy weather using slider and red maggot and recorded a catch of 72 Lb of roach and hybrid. They complained that windy conditions made it hard work.

On 22^nd July the Griffith Brothers from Plymouth fished the Hot Water Stretch at Shannonbridge and had 50 Lb of tench and roach in overcast conditions.

Michael Tubb from Edinburgh also fished the Hot Water stretch on the 22^nd July and caught four 5 Lb tench and some skimmers. He noted that the cruiser boats were travelling too fast.

Heard the sad news this week of the death of Rod Thompson from Cullingworth, Bradford who visited Shannonbridge on many occasions and took a great interest in local happenings. One year he sponsored a new set of jerseys for the local football club. May he rest in peace.
News from Stephen O'Meara from Maynooth telling us that he fished the Inner Finnamore Lake at Boora on 23rd July and had carp to 3 Lb and had five roach to a pound.