Shannonbridge Fishing Report …Dated 5^th June 2007

Weather was a little less windy than of late and sunny on occasion.

River level is still low.

- Alf Appleby from Doncaster fished the Hot Water stretch on a windy

27^th May and used maggot and sweetcorn to catch five tench.

Best was over 6 lbs and the others all over 4 lbs. Load of rudd and roach

made for enjoyable day.

- Ashley Adams from Cannock fished a Backwater on a rainy windy 30^th May

and used 3 or 4 red maggot on a size 16 hook to catch roach / bream hybrids for

a bag of 15 lbs 13 Ozs. Best fish 1 lb 4 Ozs. Enjoyable day in the rain and wind.

- Russell Adams from Cannock recorded two catches. On 30^th May he fished a Backwater. He cut out a new swim and used a waggler and caster / maggot to

catch 11 roach / bream hybrids that weighed 9 lbs.

Next day he fished the River Suck at Correen Ford on a sunny showery day

And used triple red maggot with a waggler to catch 25 roach and skimmers

that weighed 10 lbs. Like many other anglers Russell found that at 2.00 pm

they went off the feed.

- Local angler Aidan Kelly noticed what he thought was a tench in the water

where he generally moors his boat. On June 1^st in fine weather he proved he was correct.

Fishing with worms on the float, Aidan caught four tench between 5 lbs and 3.5 lbs.

Why not ask Aidan where he moors his boat.

-Andy Leatherbarrow from Culcheth fished at Correen Ford on June 1^st and used

maggot and worm with a feeder to catch 16 good fish. Fished good early on.

- Jack Conway also from Culcheth fished Correen Ford on a warm June 1^st and

used feeder with maggot and sweetcorn to catch 40 fish. Rudd to 1 lb, hybrids to 1.5 lbs and perch to 1 lb.

- Bill Reeves from Bath fished the Grand Canal for three days in cloudy and bright conditions. Bill caught plenty of small stuff on 25^th May with maggot and float.

On 26^th May he caught 7 tench using the same methods. On June 1^st he caught 61 fine rudd and roach on the float with maggot.

- Mary Reeves from Bath records that 28^th May was sunny and warm when she fished the Boora Lake where she caught a 4.75 lbs tench with maggot.

- Terry Norris from Bath records that on a warm and windy 29^th May he fished the

Grand Canal from midday to 6.00pm using maggot to catch 8 tench and roach.

- Helmi Huber from Munich on a windy June 2^nd fished for pike with a jointed wobbler

and caught two pike. Best one measured 1.04 Metres (R.I.P.) and the smaller one was returned alive. He did not know the rules about killing big pike.

- Madeleine Davis from Dublin fished a Backwater near Shannonbridge on June 3^rd

on a nice evening which was fine and dark. Using maggot and sweetcorn she had a fine 18 lbs collection of five bream, best 2.5 lbs, plus roach perch and rudd. Fished until

2.00 am.

- Louise Killeen also fished the Backwater and enjoyed a good evening /night fishing.

Louise caught six bream to 3.5 lbs, roach to 1 lb and rudd. Later it got dark and cold. Stopped fishing at 2.00 am.

The Eckert family from Wurzburg in Germany are starting their holiday cruising on the River Shannon. On 4^th June 9 year old Celine Ecker fished with a wobbler near Clonmacnois and caught her first pike measuring 60 cm. Her 6 years old sister, Ayleen Eckert fished at Clonmacnois to catch her first fish, a 30 cm perch using a worm.

- Regular visitors to Shannonbridge The Crompton Brothers have arrived. Nothing of note so far except Michael caught a 5.5 lbs tench fishing on 4^th June. Memories of them catching 34 fine tench a couple of years ago when sharing the same swim using about a dozen red maggot on a Size 10 hook.