Shannonbridge Fishing Report…Dated 7^th August 2006

The river level remains at a low level with just a few short showers last week.

Wayne Pitt from Newport, South Wales fished the harbour in Shannonbridge on August 2^nd in the sun and wind and used a small spinner and he also float fished with 4 red maggots as bait. He landed a four pound pike, 4 perch to 3 lbs and 8 roach to 2 lbs.

A nice quiet afternoon until the boats came in and spoiled it.

Ten year old Tara Naomi G-Jones from Germany fished the River Shannon on 3^rd August on a sunny day and used an imitation pike lure to catch her first pike which measured two feet.

Teenager Daniel Devery from Ballinahowen fished from the jetty at Clonmacnois using float and worm and caught 20 roach all over a pound weight.

His friend Eugene Boland 15, had no rod but fished alongside Daniel using a piece of line, a wine bottle cork as a float and hook and worms and caught 14 fine roach all over a pound.

Paul Burt from Sevenoaks, Kent fished the Hot Water stretch on a dull 4^th August and using a swimfeeder and sweetcorn he caught four tench weighing about four pounds each.

Mick Burt also fished the Hot Water on the same day and used the swimfeeder and corn approach to catch 6 tench weighing 3 to 4 lbs each. Mich also caught some small bream.

Rory Mc Allorum of the Dublin Pike Anglers fished on the River Suck on 5^th August camped by his swim. In the dawn hours he used a feeder and maggot on a SIZE 8 hook and caught 50 lbs of small bream and roach. Not bad he says. He also had a pike rod set up and used a legered dead bait to catch two low doubles and a 4 lb pike. His friend David Hughes also fished the Dawn and used feeder, corn and maggot to catch 30 lbs of small bream and roach.

K. Conroy and friends from the Midland Region fished what they call “The Cusack Stand” at Clonmacnois on 5^th August in very humid and breezy weather. They used Jerks to catch six pike with the best one weighing over 10 Lbs.

On Friday a Wexford footballer / angler Rory Deane was in Shannonbridge and passed on a fisherman’s prayer which goes as follows –

The Fisherman’s Hope

God grant that I may

Live to fish

Until my dying day

And when it comes

To my last cast

I then most humbly pray

That in the Lords

Safe landing net

I am peacefully asleep

And in his mercy

I be judged

As big enough to keep.