Shannonbridge Fishing Report….. Dated 3^rd October 2005

Two members of the St.Marie Pike Association, Belgium Nanwelaers and De Meulder Frans were pike fishing on the River Shannon and River Suck using Shannonbridge as a base while trolling down to Victoria Lock, up above Clonmacnois and as far as the Lock gates on the River Suck near Ballinasloe. Fishing with dead baits and plug baits they caught 99 pike up to 15 Lb in six days. All the fish were returned alive and well.

Tony Williams from Somerset and Tony Allen have fished from 16^th September until the 28^th of September and have fished a number of their favourite places. They started on the Hot Water stretch and used feeder and maggot in the rain to catch hybrid and roach.

Next day was fine and they fished Finnamore Lake using the waggler for a good return of carp, roach and bream.

They fished the River Suck at Culliagh and Correen for four days in different swims. The weather was windy mostly and they used feeder and red maggot and also stick float and were disappointed with a total catch of 150 Lb for the four days.

They fished the mouth of the River Suck in wind and rain and used feeder and maggot to catch roach and hybrid.

On the 26^th September they again fished the Hot Water at Shannonbridge and caught roach, tench and some big perch up to 1 Lb 5 Oz.

For the final two days they fished the River Brosna and used the stick – waggler float with maggot to catch 237 good roach that weighed 75 Lb which they described as brilliant roach fishing.

Our two local anglers Mark and Peter went pike fishing on 25^th September using dead bait. Mark had a pike of 14.5 Lb and Peter’s best was 13.5 Lb.

Bernd Rohlinger from ELM / Saarlaus fished Long Island in wind and rain on 28^th September and used rubber fish bait to catch a pike of 80 Cm.

Holger Dillenseger and Stephen Naas from Schwalbach / Germany fished at Long Island and Clonmacnois and used rubber fish and double spinner. Holger had a pike of 85 Cm and Stephen had a 70 Cm pike.

Jaroslaw Kurzak also fished the River Shannon at Clonmacnois in the rain on 29^th September using a rubber fish to catch a 70 Cm pike.

Frank and Linda Thompson from Norwich prefer canal fishing and found their best catches on the pegged stretch on the Grand Canal between Cloghan and Ferbane.

Linda had a 30 Lb of roach and bream on 29^th September using sweetcorn on a rainy day.

The next day was also rainy and Frank used caster and float to catch 30 Lb of bream on the canal. Seems the stocking of fish in recent years has improved this stretch no end as I can remember using this stretch some twenty years ago as a warm up match for the Ballinasloe Gala and Brian Lakey beating one hundred anglers there with 11.5 Lbs.

Frank Seal from Sheffield has been here for a week and he fished the River Suck on 28^th September using maggot and feeder to catch 35 Lbs of roach, hybrid and skimmer in wind and rain.

Finally yesterday another local angler Gerry Casey and two friends from Tipperary went fishing and had a 9 Lb pike as well as roach hybrid and skimmers on a fine day.