Shannonbridge Fishing Report … Dated 29^th May 2006.

The heavy rains of last Sunday have caused the river level to rise. Readings taken on a metric scale at the village bridge were 3.72 Metres on Tuesday, 3.8 Metres on Wednesday and Thursday and 3.85 Metres on Saturday of last week. Yesterday Sunday 28^th May the level was 3.87 Metres.

Repair work on the Power Plant at Shannonbridge is expected to be complete towards the end of this week.

An angler reported seeing 17 Cormorants immediately upstream of Shannonbridge on Wednesday last.

The few visiting anglers have been seeking higher banks on the Brosna and using boats on the Shannon to take them to higher ground and they are also using anchored boats with an angler fishing from the front and rear to effect. The Grand Canal and the Boora bog lakes are proving to be a great standby. Waders have been used very effectively by Mike Quinlan from Norwich who fished the Back River just upstream from the bridge. On May 23^rd Mike got nearer the river bank by wearing waders and fished in fair weather using red maggots on a stick float and size 10 hook, feeding loose casters and hemp as he fished. He was plagued by pike as he caught 50 good roach that weighed 37 lbs. One large pike was so concentrating on stealing a large roach that Mike had hooked that it beached itself as Mike netted his catch. Mike had to give it some help in returning to the river.

Haur Wiesnor from Germany fished from a cruiser in sunshine on May 22^nd using blinker / lures to catch three pike all about 70 Cm.

Lehnerer Deinhod, his friend also used blinkers to catch two pike of 50 Cm. each.

Their friend Krisch Norbet also used a blinker to catch a lovely 85 Cm. pike.

Dieter Steinhaiper from Germany caught one pike measuring 80 Cm. fishing from a cruiser on 22^nd May on the River Shannon in windy conditions while using a blinker.

Ev Everdinger from Holland fished the River Shannon from a moored boat on May 22^nd on a sunny windy day and used maggots to catch a 60 Cm. pike.

Alan Taylor from Chester fished on the Grand Canal on May 28^th in fair weather and used float and caster with 1 lb main line and hook size 20 – 22. Alan caught 5.5 lbs of small roach.

Alan’s friend Phil Lloyd from Chester used red maggot and casters to catch 11 lbs of roach and rudd. They found the water temperature was cold.

George Stokes from Birmingham has three fishing companions with him this week and they started their fishing on the Grand Canal. Good for Tracey Beaumont as she used red maggot and a whip to have the best catch of the group, catching roach perch and an eel.