Shannonbridge Fishing Report dated 12^th June 2005

The week was more or less without rain with mostly dry overcast conditions early in the week with sunshine on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. River levels dropped and in one day there was a drop of four inches.

Local angler Aidan Kelly went trolling for pike in his boat using a spinner and caught and released twelve small pike weighing between two pounds and six pounds.

Peter Price, Colin Teare, Chris Whitehouse fished Portumna on the 11^th June and had a 48 Lb , and two 20 Lbs bags of hybrid from the match stretch using maggot and sweetcorn. Peter Price also fished Portumna on the 8^th June and caught a 3 Lb brown trout while fishing with maggot.

Bert Peter from Wigan fished the Hot Water at Shannonbridge on the 9^th June and had a best tench that weighed 6.5 Lbs and he describes his bait method as “ The Ball”.

Kevin Mc Laren from Wigan also fished the Hot Water on June 9^th and caught 11 tench on red maggot that weighed over 50 Lbs.

John Potter from Wigan fished the Hot Water on June 10^th and in four hours caught five tench that weighed 25 Lbs and he lost three other tench.

Steve Nichols from Wigan fished the Hot Water on the 10^th June and caught three tech weighing 15 Lbs using red maggot and he also lost a big pike that burst his float.

Andy James and two companions from Huddersfield fished the River Suck at The Boathouse for three days solid last week and using worm and caster on a feeder and were disappointed with an average catch of 10 Lbs each per day .Their comment to the Shannon Fishery Board asks “where are the fish”.

Paul Airey from Ahascragh caught a pike over 20 Lbs on the River Suck at Ballyforan while fishing with smelt on a 15 Lb line on June 3^rd. He used the same bait and tactics at Ballyforan on the River Suck to land a pike that weighed 33 Lbs in the net. Both were returned alive.

Dave Feeley and his ten year old daughter Kathleen have arrived for a fishing holiday and on the 12^th June Kathleen used a sweetcorn cocktail while fishing on the River Suck to catch three eels to two pounds, two bream to 2.5 Lbs and some hybrids. Not bad for the first day she commented.

John Maloney from Navan and originally from Clonmacnois fished the River Loun in Kerry on the 11^th June and used shrimp as bait to catch two salmon weighing 7 Lb and 9 Lb both of which he returned alive. John commented that salmon fishing around Navan has been the best for ten years this year helped no doubt by their policy of allowing only one fish per year to be taken by each angler.

Darren Ebron fished the Hot Water for pike on the 3^rd June and had one weighing 13 Lbs and four small pike described as good fighters and all returned alive.

Graham Smith fished the Hot Water on the 12^th June and used sweetcorn to catch six tench weighing between 3 – 4 Lbs. He also had a few skimmer bream that averaged about two pounds each. Starting to fish is his comment.

Frank Seal from Sheffield has returned with two companions and was happy to catch 25 Lbs of bream and hybrid on his first day on the Suck in sunny conditions.