Cheshire anglers Stuart Heath and Dave Williams got their Irish holiday off to a busy start with a combined haul of 92 kilos (203lb) on Cavan’s famous Lough Eonish.
In fact the delighted duo were staying at Eonish Lodge Guesthouse, Killeshandra, and fishing the BBs private shoreline.
The session started on Friday evening when the two men mixed enough brown crumb based groundbait to provide 60 balls, which they balled-in either side of the fence at the well known donkey hut.
Stuart was first up on Saturday morning and making his first cast around 5am and waited another 45 minutes before getting his first bite in the shape of a 5lb bream. David, prefers a more leisurely approach, meandered along at six o’clock and still managed to get 32 kilos (75lb).
Both men were fishing with open-ended groundbait feeders while baiting their hooks with a mix of worm, caster and red maggot mostly on size 14 hooks.
North Region Fisheries Board officer, Ted Sweeney, who kindly came along with his scales and weighed both catches and giving Stuart spot on 60 kilos (132lbs).
This is just the start of the holiday.
