Fishing out of CorkMac on Sat

Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:04 pm

Looks like me BigKev and a few others heading out on Mark Gannon's Boat on Saturday, what's about at the moment fish wise?

Worth bringing any shads n Lead heads along and such like?

Have a few dozen Macks in the freezer, worth getting any thing else (crab lug, squid etc)

Thanks

Sam

Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:51 am

hi salmon, was out of that area two weeks ago, i found that the best lure
was a blue and silver bodied shad.
and the large hokies worked as well.
caught black jacks up to 28lbs

Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:55 am

Fab!!!

Will take some along 28lbs would be a dream !!

what size shad where you fishing? what weight on ?

Thanks

Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:46 am

Hi samon,

we were using the storm 3 inch blue and silver, with a 10oz weight, on a boom set up, we tried a lot types but they were the best.

Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:26 pm

cobh-skipper wrote:hi salmon, was out of that area two weeks ago, i found that the best lure
was a blue and silver bodied shad.
and the large hokies worked as well.
caught black jacks up to 28lbs


Black jacks???? can you mean Caranx lugubris????

Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:56 pm

hi neil,

nothing that fancy im afraid.Tinosa Fish
A tinosa is a small, black, poisonous tropical fish.

Tinosa fish are found in tropical waters.

Market Name: JACK
Scientific Name: CARANX LUGUBRIS
Common Name: BLACK JACK
Vernacular: BLACK ULUA / TARAKITO / TINOSA

just a plain old

Coalfish (or Coley): Bigger fish are found over the many wrecks in early spring and can be caught with feathers or fish strips. Smaller fish are caught right round the coast throughout the year.

we call them black jacks

Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:14 pm

yer i hear there are some good fish about..looking foward to it, will let you know how i get on with the blue and silvers!

Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:18 pm

I thought this would be too much, even for global warming! never heard of coalfish being called black jacks.

But Caranx lugubris is actually an edible gamefish, with a max wt of 17.9 Kg

Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:25 pm

best of luck samon, and enjoy.

Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:55 pm

hi neil,

i rember them being calling black jacks going back 20 years, but ppl have different names for a range of species around the coast.
does anyone else on the site know them as black jacks.. :?:

Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:32 pm

Common name for them in Donegal

Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:02 pm

black jacks, coalies, coleys, saithe, glassan, black pollack call them want you want 28lbs still hell of a fish

Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:09 pm

hello ppl, you will find the photos and the reports if you click on the web
link on this post of all the big fish we boated that day.