Shannonbridge Fishing Report …. Dated 25^th September 2006

Weather has been mixed with rain in later part of the week. The river level rose from 2.1 Metres last weekend to 3.0 Metres on Sunday 24^th.

The Dublin Pike Anglers visited Shannonbridge area on Sunday 24^th September.

15 pike anglers took part in the 1st Leg of their Winter League. They fished for almost seven hours and were allowed to fish anywhere around Shannonbridge as long as they had an independent witness. 55 pike were caught in the competition in pleasant weather conditions.
Winner was Rory Mc Allorum with 8 pike that weighed 31 - 4 lbs. Best fish 8 - 1 lbs.
Second was Godfrey Donoghue with 9 pike that weighed 27 - 2 lbs.
Third was Colin Mc Allorum with 5 pike that weighed 18 - 12 lbs.

There were a number of Austrian and German pike anglers fishing from hire cruisers on the Shannon and Suck rivers.

Gruben Gunter and party of six caught eight pike while fishing on the Shannon on 17^th September using dead fish as bait. Best fish was 94 Cm.

Gerti Nagl from Bayernhas been visiting the river for 28 years and on 21^st September his party of four fished the Shannon in the rain and used blinkers to catch six pike. About eleven other anglers recorded catching pike on the Shannon and Suck rivers with various sizes between 51 Cm and 87 Cm.

Coarse angler Cliff Mynard from Halifax recorded catches from twelve days fishing on the Suck and Shannon where he fished for and caught roach and hybrid using caster and sweetcorn as bait. His catches in pounds were 8, 8, 7, 16, 10, 12, 7, 11, 7, 16, 22 and 7. On two days he caught pike that weighed 8 lbs and 4 lbs. Cliff enjoyed his fishing and a variety of weather.

First time visitors to Shannonbridge Jim and Thomas Bennett from Hemsworth chose to fish the same swims on the River Suck in search of roach and hybrid as advised. They used red maggot and caster and were rewarded with catches of 20 to 30 lbs of roach hybrid and small bream each every day. These guys were serious and were fishing most mornings at 5.00 AM.

Alan Taylor from Chester is staying in Laurel Lodge and has used a boat to get to his favourite Backwater. He had a warm up day on the Grand Canal on 21^st September and on a fair day he used red maggot fine line and size 20 hooks to catch 40 lbs of roach.

On 22^nd September in fair weather on the Backwater he fished 8’ depth with a waggler and caught 40 lbs of fish including some lovely rudd that weighed 2.5 lbs each

Next day in the same swim Alan fished with waggler corn and caster on a size 14 hook and caught 30 lbs of roach and bream to 2.5 lbs and hybrids. He cooked and landed a 7 lbs pike on sweetcorn.

On 24^th September in good weather he used the same methods in the same swim to catch 65 lbs of bream, hybrids and rudd again weighing 2.5 lbs.