Shannonbridge Fishing Report .. Dated 14^th May 2007 .

A variety of weather for the week with some showers, wind sun and cloud.

- Jan Gulikers from Holland fished a rainy Shannon on May 3^rd and used a dead roach to catch a pike 105 mm. Returned alive.

- Wigns John from Belgium fished the River Shannon on 10^th May on a clouded day and used trolling plugs to catch seven pike to around 75 Cm.

Wijns John from Belgium fished May 12th the River Shannon on a clouded wet day and used trolling plug bait to catch five pike in four hours. Two days later he again used plug baits to catch 16 pike in four hours.

- Verpoorten Paul, Belgium fished alongside and also used trolling plug baits to catch five pike to 70 Cm. On May 12^th he again used trolling plug baits to catch five pike in four hours. Best was 60 cm.

- V.D. Bergh Roger from Belgium also fished with his pals, using trolling plug baits to catch six baby pike. All returned alive. On May 12^th he fished the River Shannon from a cruiser and using trolling plug baits he caught 11 pike. Best was 73 cm.

- Tony Allen and Tony Williams from Wiltshire fished the River Shannon on a wet and windy 6^th May using a float with maggot and caster to catch 60 roach each on their first day. Best ones 10 ounces.

Next day they tried the River Suck at Correen and used maggot and worm on the leger to catch bream hybrid and roach.

On May 8^th the Two Toney's caught some bits while fishing a Backwater using a waggler for bottom fishing. Then they pre-baited the swims.

On May 9^th they fished the Backwater swims using a waggler and red maggot to catch four tench to over 5 lbs and good hybrids to 1.25 lbs. A tench broke Tony Williams Browning Rod which had been recommended by Bob Nudd. Bob Nudd beware !!!.

On May 10^th they had three tench, hybrid and roach from the same swim. They had wind every day, must be the Guinness.

- A ten man group from Hanover fished the River Shannon on their cruiser on 11^th May using wobblers on a windy day to catch 10 pike to 3.5 Kg.

Shannonbridge angler Aidan Kelly went trolling in his boat on May 2^nd and used a large copper and silver spoon bait to catch 19 pike in four hours. Best was 6 lbs. Two days later he fished the River Shannon once more with his boat and copper and silver spoon baits and landed 14 pike and two perch. All returned alive.

- Ernie Nolan from Ashford in Kent fished a Backwater on a rainy clouded 9^th May and had a 5 lbs 2 oz tench using corn/maggot/ feeder.

- His friend, Tony Sexton also fished the Backwater and used the same tactics to land his first tench.

- Jim Sims from Loughton Essex fished the Backwater on May 9^th and used the corn / maggot / feeder to catch five tench to 4 lbs. Later that day he tried his luck with maggot and feeder in the harbour and caught a brown trout.

-Monfield Amann from Austria used plug baits while fishing from a cruiser on the River Shannon and landed a pike of 73 cm. Ireland the place to be says Monfield.

-Thomas Rupp from Germany fished with a dead fish as bait on 13^th May and hooked and landed a pike that measured 1.11 Metres. Estimated to weigh 23 lbs. Returned alive.

Engelbert Roller his friend caught a 63 cm pike while fishing with a wobbler on 14^th May from the cruiser.

- Michael Burke from Swindon and a Shannonbridge connection went fishing early on 12^th May at the Hot Water with a friend. They used maggot / worm / float / feeder to catch 60 fish. Fine rudd and some perch to 1.5 lbs. They hooked and lost three big tench.

- Tony and Terry from Yorkshire fished a Backwater on a cloudy 12^th May and used maggot and sweetcorn to catch 15 lbs of rudd to a pound. Comment – best rudd they ever caught.

- John Phillips from Wales fished with the Tony and Terry and caught three tench using maggot and sweetcorn. On May 14^th John fished the same Backwater swim and caught a 3.5 lb tench and good rudd to a pound weight each.

Dermot Turley told us that his friends on a cruiser on the previous week caught 24 pike on their return journey to Athlone.

On behalf of Derry.