Shore Mackerel Reports '12 here...

Hello all,
Thank God for the longer days and may he protect us from trawlers from the far north.

This is the earliest start, and the seventh season of a dedicated thread for mackerel reports, to all who are interested I'm copying the reasons why this is a good resource for this community of anglers.

A better idea of where and when the macks are about might:
1. Increase chances of catching nice dinner
2. Tempt you to try fishing for them with a fly rod or very light gear
3. Allow you to bring nippers along, they'll NEVER forget catching the first mack
4. If it works it might mean less time fishing for bait (if the bait is mack)
5. it might mean less need to haul in loads at a time for bait for the freezer during the season
6. Use the info to avoid dangerously packed venues (I have found the morning tide can be like a different planet, a quiet, safe one
above are the 'selfish' reasons, other reasons are:
7. If supported it could provide an annual 'database' on mack stocks, allowing rough comparison from year to year
8. Might cut down on the need to take extra macks in a session, which is good for the fish.

Please support it all through the season, and more important than reporting catches, please report blanks (as I am very well practised at).
Any confirmed information is going to be really useful to someone.

The first big catch is in already from Donegal, first confirmed full house anyone....

Blackie

lets get it going, love mack bashing on light gear,

heard of a few mack being caught in howth anyone know anything about dun laoghaire?

hi does anyone know if there is any being caught around mayo lately.gonna try them soon so any info would be appreciated.

brian

a guy beside us landed a monster mackerel on a mackerel bait from a pulley rig half way up inside lough swilly last night from the shore. i thought it was a trout at first glance at a distance just by the size of the thing
they're back!!!

seen one caught off ballycotton pier during the week,pretty bad considering the mackeral bashers were out in force that evening...still,its a start!!

Small catches been reported in Dungarvan ,Waterford as well

we got loads from the pier in Killybegs yesterday on our way to fintra beach
just my luck I was only after buying a few for bait in the tackle shop

a solitary mack taken by a kayak angler only a couple of hundred yards off bray head, the weekend just gone.....

Have been trying myself around Howth with no luck. Although the seals haven't been helping.

Four for about half an hours jigging at Killybegs Pier. Size was average.

Four this evening from Killybegs Pier at high water. Size was decent still.

Any body hear of mac's in dublin yet?

a solitary mack taken by a kayak angler only a couple of hundred yards off Bray Head (??), the weekend just gone.....

That was meself . I'd say not even a hundred yards out on a pink shrimp like rig .

Caught a dozen in Killybegs today. It was dead until around 2:30 after low tide, and then they turned up.

Caught a dozen in Killybegs today. It was dead until around 2:30 after low tide, and then they turned up.

Can yo guys landing them in killbegs send some round to us on east coast or failing that north coast. We have had one on north coast in about 12 hours of fishing between 3 of us.

Had some from Belfast Lough last night.

bashers catching a few mackeral off the pier in ballycotton this evening,fine big mackeral too

Anyone catch any around Cork Harbour yet?