Shannonbridge Fishing Report….Dated 3^rd July 2006.

The weather remained generally good for wishing with the occasional sunny spell that seemed to make the fish more aware. The river level today is 2.21 Metres on the gauge at Shannonbridge.

Cliff Mynard from Halifax fished the River Suck on 26^th June in good weather and used float and caster to catch 48 lbs of roach and hybrids. Cliff and his lady were on a short visit but will be back for a longer stay in August.

Rolf Frei from Zurich fished on the River Shannon on 28^th June and used a blinker to catch a pike of 53 cm.

Horques Kleinburger from Hori also fished on the River Shannon on 28^th June in fine weather and used a blinker to catch a pike of 71 cm which was a great experience for him as it was his first pike.

David Feeley and his daughter Kathleen fished on the River Suck and on the River Shannon for two weeks. They found a lot of pike in the water and the biggest weighed 12 Lbs. They caught bream up to 5 lbs weight and had bags weighing 55 lbs and 63 lbs. Their favoured bait was three red maggots and they found fishing was better when there was a ripple on the water.

Mick Wright from Leicester is back in town. On his first outing on the River Suck yesterday he used pole float and caster to catch 22 lbs of mainly roach.

Pat and George Pearson from Surrey were fishing Shannonbridge last week. They fished three days on the River Suck. Two days were OK with mixed bags of roach and hybrid weighing 15 – 20 lbs. The third day was very sunny and they struggled to catch 5 lb plus hybrid and roach. For two days they fished the Hot Water stretch at Shannonbridge. They caught good tench to 5 lbs plus hybrids and roach. They found pike to be a problem. Fishing was a big improvement on last year.

Two of our local anglers decided to repeat a night fishing experience this week. On the previous occasion they had a super catch but for some reason this time the fish did not want to know. That’s fishing for you but well worth a try.

On Friday 30^th June Manfred Reimann and his family were enjoying their second cruising holiday on the Shannon when they saw a large pike belly up in the water about four miles upstream from Lanesboro. The fish weighed 10.1 Kilo and measured 1.15 Metres. One set of gills was torn and brown coloured and they reckoned that the pike was only dead a very short time. Manfred promised to e-mail a photo to Shannon Fisheries when he returns home.