Shannonbridge Fishing Report Dated 30^th June 2008

After lots of showers during the week the weather cleared at the weekend.

The river level at Shannonbridge reads 2.21 metres despite the rain.

A canal over tells me that the weed-cutting machine has reached Clononey and Shannonharbour. He reckoned that the operators did a good job in cutting the center weeds and maintaining the water lilies and wild crocus and other bankside fauna.

- On 25^th June Joe Maddock from Oldham fished the Hot Water stretch in the rain using maggot and sweetcorn to catch 4 bream and three hybrids..

Next day he fished the same stretch again in the rain and caught 20 roach and 3 perch.

-- Philip Oxendale from Oldham also fished the Hot Water on the same rainy days. On 25^th June he caught bream and tench and loads of roach for a bag of 30 lbs. Next day on maggot he had just roach biting but he had good crack but wet.

- Warren Maddock from Oldham recorded three days catches. On 23^rd June in the rain at the Hot Water he fished with maggot and sweetcorn and caught 10 lbs of bream and nothing else. On 25^th June Warren fished with sweetcorn and caught 20 hybrids with best fish weighing 1.5 lbs. Next day he fished the same swim in the rain using maggot and caster to catch 40 hybrids with four of them weighing 2 lbs each.

- Young Anne Ward from Cork fished the pool at the floating jetty in Shannonbridge on 26^th June in the rain and caught a 3.15 lbs pike using a silver spoon.

-The Shannonbridge / Clonmacnois fishing pals Darren, Colin and Gramps went spinning and trawling on 25^th June in wind rain and sunshine and caught 3 pike and 12 perch. The biggest pike weighed 4 lbs. All fish returned alive.

- Local angler Gerry Casey recorded that on 19^th June fishing in shallows at Shannonbridge on a calm sunny evening using float and maggot while loose feeding he caught 10 rudd all around the 1.5 lbs mark. His best rudd fishing for years.

- Youngster Aoran O Neill from Cork fished Shannonbridge on a rainy 26^th June and landed a one pound pike using a silver spoon. Comment – rain rain go away.

- Martin Murray from Ballinasloe fished the Hot Water stretch at Shannonbridge on 24^th June in the rain using maggot and float to catch two good tench of 4 – 11 lbs each plus loads of perch. Pike attacked.

- David Griffin from Dublin fished the Shannon at Shannonbridge using a Voblex lure to catch a 15 lbs pike that he returned alive.

- Young Owen Finn from Shannonbridge fished the Hot Water stretch on an overcast 28^th June using a spinner to catch a 3 lbs pike that he released safe and sound.