Shannonbridge Fishing Report dated 24^th April 2006

The river level continues to drop and the River Shannon at Shannonbridge is 2.8 Metres today. Weather at the weekend was warm and sunny but today is overcast with a colder temperature and the odd bit of light rain falling.

The past week some eight coarse angling visitors from England stayed and fished in the area. As is usual those that chose a swim and kept it fed caught fish and the others drove around expecting the fish to leap into their car.

Ian Ditchfield from Derby was pike fishing from a cruiser and using small rubber bait landed a 15 Lb pike which he released safely.

Our local angler went bank fishing for pike using dead bait on 17^th April and on a fine day caught three pike with the best weighing 14 Lbs. This same Peter had a 25 Lb pike from the same area back the 27^th January. Earlier in the month his friend Mark had a 27.5 Lb pike using dead bait. They know this pike personally as both Peter and Mark caught this fish previously.

Frank Seal from Sheffield fished on the Grand Canal at Shannonharbour in the rain on the 18^th April and used red maggot and stick float to catch 35 Lbs of Roach etc.

On the 21^st April Frank fished the same swim and again using red maggot and stick float he caught 60 Lbs of Roach etc.

On the 23^rd April Frank fished the River Suck in fine sunny weather and used a feeder to land 20 Lbs of Roach.

Dave Kemp from Bradford is a seasoned visitor to Shannonbridge. On 16^th April Dave fished the Grand Canal at Clononey and used red maggot on a fine day to catch 11 Lb of bream, tench and bits using a pole.

On Friday 21^st April Dave fished the canal at Rahan and used red maggot on the pole to catch 25 Lbs of bream and roach

Yesterday Dave fished the River Suck in the sunshine and used corn, worm and maggot on a feeder to bag 27 Lbs of bream and hybrid.

Dave’s friend Steve Nell from Creggan / Sheffield fished alongside Dave yesterday and Steve also used corn, worm and maggot to catch 22 Lbs of bream and hybrid.

Pat (Doody) Dunne from Balldon fished on the River Brosna on 20^th April and used red maggot to catch 17 Lb of roach etc which he found hard going. Weather was fine.

Three German visitors from Lederhosen were fishing from their cruiser yesterday and caught three pike while using dead bait. What a lovely day was their comment.