Tony Polter has been visiting from the UK every year for the last 35 years. Fishing in the Longford/Roscommon and Leitrim areas last month he had some incredible tench catches.
On one occasion he was fishing with a friend who lives locally. He enjoyed an memorable day on the Royal canal in Co Longford catching 22 tench in a single session.
He then fished a lake in Roscommon and had a decent net of skimmers and hybrids before needing to seek shelter from North-East gales.
Looking to find somewhere more comfortable to fish, he chose to travel to a smaller lake in County Leitrim. It was on this gem of a venue that he caught 43 tench, with some females over specimen size and a big male tipping the scales at 5lb 9ozs.
