Shannonbridge Fishing Report dated 21st Sept 2010
The spell of rain over a few days have caused the river level to reach 3.65Metres at Shannonbridge on Tuesday 15th and this has eased back to 3.5M. today.Many Belgian Dutch and German pike anglers in the area on cruisers or staying in local accomidation and using lake boats.Pike fishing appears to be better when moving with the strong current.
>Keith Harrison from Brigg in Lincolnshire fished the same swim for the last three days of his holiday which was some ten yards away from the village bridge.Fishing in flood water and standing in water Keith only fished for four hour stints.
On 15/9 Keith used a 17Ft rod,maggot stick float 7BB to catch 71 roach,3 rudd,2 perch for 25Lbs.
On 16/9 in sunshine same tactics Keith had 87 roach perch and rudd in four hours.
Last day 17/9 Keith caught 56 roach and no rudd or perch in the 3.5 hour session.
During the three sessions he had lots and lots of pike attacks and one day while releasing his catch a pike came along and took one of the roach.
>Arthur Acker from Holland used Jerkbait fishing for pike on the Shannon.
On 19/9 Arthur caught and released a pike 85cm and the next day he caught a pike measuring 76cm.
>Barry Klien from Holland also fished the Shannon on 20/9 using Jerkbait to catch a pike 101cm.
>Marco Prouder fished the Shannon on 20/9 using a spinner to catch a pike of 50cm.
>Dennis Prouder Holland fished in sunshine on 20/9 catching a 30m pike with a spinner.
>Karl Barsch Germany fished Shannon on a sunny 20/9 using a wobbler to catch 3 pike 30cm to 60cm.
>In Erinneming a friend of the late angler Manfred Girch told us the sad news of Manfred's death.May he rest in peace.
>Willy Use from the Belgian Club used a lake boat and dead bait to catch 7 pike measuring 80, 75, 73, 68, 66, 50 and 45Cm.Promised to take his friend Ivan over in May next year.
>Vau Broer Belgium fished in lakeboat with Willy and used a spinnerto catch 6 pike ( 75- 60 -50 -45 - 40 and 30cm length).This was on 20/9 on Shannon in sunshine.
>Karl Barsch Germany fished today in cloudy conditions using a wobbler to catch a pike 84cm or 3.8Kg.