Shannonbridge Fishing Report 19^th May 2008

The water level on Monday 19^th May was 2.24 metres at Shannonbridge. I enquired from Waterways Ireland last week if they had this height information available on their website and was told it was too dangerous to put this information on their website. Say a prayer for them.

A good week weatherwise with lots of sun and no rain. Reports that fishing went off when sun came out.

- Tony Bryon from Doncaster fished the Grand Canal on 10^th May in sunshine using maggot, worm and sweetcorn. First day he had 6 lbs of roach,

- Shane Collinson from Doncaster fished the Grand Canal on 10^th and 11^th May in sunshine,

First day he caught 30 lbs of roach, tench and skimmers. Lot of weed flowing through.

Next day he had 25 lbs of tench, bream, an odd rudd and one eel. Pre baited the swim.

-Miss Lena Ruckabeile, aged 14, from Scronbuch, Germany fished the Shannon at Clonmacnois on 14^th May in the sunshine and used a wobbler to catch three pike measuring 75 cm.- Gavin, Dave and Barry from Montgomeryshire AA fished the River Suck on 14^th May on a hot and sunny day, using maggot, caster, worm and spinner to catch roach, bream, pike and perch. No weight or number given.

-Desmond Mace from Nottingham fished a Backwater off the Shannon on 14^th May in good weather using maggot and groundbait to catch 70 lbs of bream to 6 lb.

-Tony Murphy from Ballinasloe fished the Hot Water on 15^th May in sunshine using maggot and sweetcorn to catch 11 roach, one 2 lb perch and two tench that weighed 4.25 lbs each.

Nick Price from Gort fished the Hot Water on an overcast 9^th May using sweetcorn and maggot to catch 2 tench and 1 bream. The bream was caught at dusk.

- Joe Coleman and four friends were on their first cruiser holiday last week. They enjoyed the weather and the beautiful location. They saw a Tornado forming one day and commented that there were not many people around. Tony used a Sink and Draw method using dead bait and caught four pike in the 6-7 lbs range.

-Paul Reynolds from Drogheda used the same method and caught 11 pike with best of 10.5 lbs.

- Tom King Clogherhead caught 3 pike all weighing about 5 lbs.

- Noel Donnelly from Drogheda caught 2 pike both about 11 lbs.

John Doyle Jun. from Carrickmacross used lures and caught 9 pike, best weighing 6 lbs.

-Paul Cahill from Balbriggan, Dublin also used a lure to catch 12 pike in 7 days. Excellent fishing and surroundings says he.

Back on the bankside Paul Tottman from Hampshire fished a Backwater on overcast 18^th May using maggot sweetcorn and feeder to catch 9 tench that weighed 40 lbs

-Nick Hillier from Hampshire fished a Backwater on 19^th May in overcast and windy conditions. He used maggot and feeder to catch 14 bream that weighed 70 lbs.

-Brenda Archibald from Doncaster fished at Shannonbridge on overcast 19^th May and used a feeder and maggot to catch a brown trout that weighed 1.5 lbs. It had pike teeth marks showing.

- Terry Daaley from Yorkshire has been fishing on the Grand Canal and River Suck from his small canal boat. His best day on the canal was on 10^th May fishing float and maggot in sunshine he caught 10 tench to 4 lbs best and one 2 lbs bream. For a five day stint on the canal he caught 30 tench and 80 roach, bream and perch.

- Terry Daaley fished for 5 days on the Suck he also used float and maggot to catch a mixed bag of some 200 bream, roach and perch. He found an amount of fish concentrated in the dead end mooring harbour at Ballinasloe.

- Pat Meere from Cork fished the River Brosna on 18^th May using small nymphs to catch some nice brown trout. He enjoyed the day.

Backwaters are fishing well and lots of tench are being caught at the Hot Water stretch at Shannonbridge but are not written in the Catch Book at Killeens so I have no details.

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