Shannonbridge Fishing Report …Dated 18^th September 2006

Weather was mostly dry and sunny last week and the river levels remain at a summer low, some coarse anglers did not record their catches.

Jan Stevens from The Netherlands fished on the River Shannon on 12^th Sept on a cloudy day and used dead fish bait to catch three pike, 100, 85, 74 Cm. Very good piking.

Terry Archibald from Doncaster fished the River Suck on 14^th Sept for three hours and used a feeder and maggot to catch 16 fish that weighed 10 lbs. Too hot.

The next day he fished the same swim and used the same methods to catch a 4 lbs tench, 3 lbs bream and 4 lbs of mixed fish in four hours. Again Terry reckoned it was too hot.

Haudum Gunter from Austria fished the Shannon on 16^th Sept and used a gummifish to catch two pike that measured 100, 73 Cm. Returned alive in the sun.

Jan Kirsensten from the Netherlands was leader of a party of thirteen that fished the Shannon on 17^th Sept and used blinkers in the sunshine to catch 12 pike with the best measuring 85 Cm. Satisfied.

Jan Sloen’s party also fished on the River Shannon on 17^th Sept in sunshine and used Rapala lures to catch 13 pike. Good fishing.

Regular annual visitors known as The Leds from Amsterdam fished on the River Suck on 17^th Sept in sunshine and were surprised and delighted to catch 40 pike using Rapala lures. The best fish measured 90 Cm.

Coarse angler Colin Wollaston from Willenhall completed a great week of fishing.

On 14^th Sept Colin fished on the River Suck in good weather and used float and maggot to catch 35 lbs of roach and hybrid which he described as very good.

On 16^th Sept he fished the River Suck on a cloudy day and used float and maggot to catch 54.5 lbs of roach which was brilliant. During the session he was being attacked by pike so he used a dead roach as bait and caught two pike that weighed 23 lbs and 8 lbs. An added bonus.

Dave Kemp from Bradford has been fishing a variety of waters during the week including the Shannon, Suck and Grand Canal and has been happy catching roach, hybrids, rudd and pike using feeder maggot and on the canal he used the pole and corn.

Dave commented ‘fine weather and a few fish thrown in, too’

Cliff Mynard from Halifax was fishing here this week and David Walsh, the angler that seeks out specimen pike was in the area on Saturday sussing out the waters.