Shannonbridge Fishing Report ..dated 20th July 2009.
Cliff Mynard from Halifax West Yorkshire enjoyed his second week fishing holiday in Shannonbridge.
He has plans to return in September without his wife but with a fishing friend.
> On 4th July Cliff fished the River Suck in mixed weather, using red maggot to catch 17lbs hybrids
including three two pounders.
> On 5th July Cliff again fished the Suck on a bright day using red maggot and sweetcorn
to catch 18lbs of roach and hybrids. Good sport.
> on 6th July Cliff fished the Grand Canal on a sunny day using red maggot and casterto catch 24lbs
of roach and rudd and five tench best 3lbs. Hook size 12 and 14.
> On 7th July Cliff again fished the canal in sunshine catching 22lbs rudd, perch, tench and bream.
The tench was 3lbs and there was one 4lbs bream.
> On 8th July Cliff had sunshine and fished the Suck and Canal using red maggot and caster
for a 37lbs total of hybrids and bream. Five bream in the 4 to 5lbs range.
> On his final day Cliff fished the Shannon for three hours in mixed weather again using
red maggot and caster to catch 6lbs of roach. Enjoyable. Wait until September.
> On 11th July Peter Sekoranja from Austria fished the Shannon in mixed weather
using wobler to catch pikes which he returned alive.
> On 11th July local angler Aidan Kelly fished the Shannon in mixed weather using a rowboat and spinners
to catch 14 pike with best 16lbs. Returned alive. Aidan spotted seven mink on the journey
from Shannonbridge to Clonmacnois during early morning fishing.
> On 12th July Aidan Kelly went coarse fishing on the Shannon in mixed weather using a worm
to catch 40 roach, hybrid and perch. Best perch weighed 0.5 lbs.
> Pip and Jean Firmin from Nierst, Scotland have finished a two week holiday in Shannonbridge.
> On 10th July Pip fished on the Shannon in overcast conditions to catch a 4.5lbs tench on worm.
> On 12th July Pipfished the River Suck using a Lamprey eel to catch a 9lbs pike.
> On 13th July Pip fished the Shannon in the rain using worm and sweetcorn to catch a nice mixed bag of
perch roach and hybrids. Four mink crossed a drain two metres from where he was pitched.
> Local anglers Tom Carty and his grandson Thomas fished from their anchored boat twice this weekend.
On one day they caught 19 perch and one roach. The other day they had 14 perch and one 5lbs pike.
Today Monday I met an angler who has been night fishing on the River Suck with his brother in law.
He reported good bags of mainly hybrid and roach. Their catches reached the third ring on their
keepnets. Using sweetcorn fishing was good until 1.00am and from 4.00am. They heard the splash
of big bream which scared the swans but failed to hook the big bream.
Now they are going to concentrate on some tench fishing in that area.

A notice has been circuled today of the plan to knock the two concrete chimneys at the old
Shannonbridge Power Station. The demolition is scheduled to take place on Friday 24th July @ 11.00am.
One of the chimneys is the one with the lights and painted in red stripes.

Note that The Connacht Tribune is www.galwaynews.ie In yesterdays Connacht football final
Mayo beat Galway by a whisper.

On Sunday 19th July met a mother and daughter who are visiting the country.
Carol Nyholm's father was a Nash from Collinstown in Westmeath who emigrated to USA in 1920.
Carol married her husband who is of Finnish background.
Mary her daughter married a Carstensen whose family are Danish.
Carol lives in California and Mary and her family live in Denmark.
They have been using Bed and Breakfast accomodation as they travel around and last night stayed
with Brian and Dymphna Carroll in Ely House in Shannonbridge.
They were delighted to see the house where Mr Nash emigrated from in 1920 and to have met the cousins.

Another couple who are holidaying in Mount-Shannon travelled to Shannonbridge this morning
to visit The Clonmacnois and West Offaly Bog Train and were disappointed. They visited Clonmacnois
and enjoyed that visit.


The Clonmacnois Youth Festival 2009 is scheduled to take place at Clonmacnois area from 13th to 16th August.
Under the Youth 2000 Ireland banner it promises to be a lively 4 day festival with workshops,
concert, inspiring talks, great music and prayers. Visit www.youth2000.ie
They have circulated an appeal for help in preparing the site for the event and they would welcome help
from many skills and people. See notice in church porch.
They are also looking to offer to house visiting bishops priests and speakers coming to the festival.
The festival has free buses and no cost - devotion only.
The Youth 2000 office in Dulin telephone 01- 6753690


Stephen and Rebecca Brown from California who visited Shannonbridge recently wrote to say that they enjoyed their visit. Elva Mary Killeen was Stephen Brown's mother.