Mackerel Reports '10 here......

Killiney yesterday. No macs.

Dunlicky / the Castle Co clare,

As suspected the mac's are back, Took a drive out to see if anything was doing and as i neared the cliff i was ever so happy to see this wonderfull sight

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Nada in Clogherhead today

None from shore at Greystones this morning(5.30 - 9.30, HT 7 AM), perfect conditions again, loads of fry and launce about so the macks should be on the way.

[mann]

Tried Carrigaholt this afternoon to see if they made it in this far but had no joy, had a chat with a couple of lads that were leaving as I arrived, they said the only one catching fish was the polish guy on the corner of the pier but they were all undersize Pollock,
I went over to him and seen he had a light plastic carrier bag half full of little Pollock some the size of a cigarette lighter,

I got talking to him as we spoke we watched a large amount of bubbles appear just below us, I thought at first it was an outlet pipe of some sort but then it kept getting nearer when the bubbles got to about ten feet from us the guy cast his float into them and up popped a scuba diver

In the picture you might see the diver making his way back down as the pole pulled his float back… Oh man it was so funny,

Asked him if he got any mackerel but he said he wasn’t fishing for them, so the bag was half full of Pollock, I reckon the bag would break when he tried to lift it but I didn’t hang around to see it.

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mackerel today clogherhead

dun laoghaire east p 1830 - 2100, 9 to 10 people fishing, all big O

Lads... I was in Dunlickey yesterday with four of my friends. I was trying to get some for grilling and stock up on baits. We arrived there 5am and already saw a few easetrn europeans camping and fishing at that stage. We went around to an isolated area and started casting up until 8:15am. I won't go into too much details but here's the result:

Mackerel huge ones minimum 35cm: 70 pieces
Mackerel normal size between 25 to 35cm: 43 pieces
Pollock Huge ones 3 pounds and up: 8 pieces
Pollock normal sizes min 25cm size: 45 (we got 2x full house of pollocks)
Star fish between 5 to 10 inches all released

Half bag of black bag trash. We had to take back a lot of trash being left by those who probably fished there a day or two before. Its good there was no wind otherwise those would have ended in the water. Budweiser cans, plastic cover of feather rigs, chips wrappers and more.

We released roughly 16 pollocks that are small, unfortunately due to the height of the cliff I don't know how they were but hopefully survived the trauma.


This just looks like the water temp has risen. We had some good grilling in the afternoon and getting ready for night fishing.

IN Carlingford Lough yesterday - a single, lonely mackerel between the lighthouse & the blockhouse.

Blank at Ballycotton yesterday save for one foul hooked launce!!

[mann]

Caught these this morning near th Bridges of Ross,

Catch and release... No

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Caught these this morning near th Bridges of Ross,

Catch and release... No

wow,very nice man

On Saturday I caught 22 mackerel off the rocks near Belmullet. Nice day fishing.

Please remain on topic - mackeral being caught or not - in certain areas

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fish - focus on the fish!

One mack in an hour at Reenmore (?) Beara on Sat, couple of small pollock as well and the lad beside me was having the odd mack too.

Plenty of mac at the bridges of ross yesterday - That's if you got them before the seal did

I had my 1st four mackies of the year today on Inis Meain (Aran Islands). Was a short 45 minute session as there was a large swell and mark was getting a bit dangerous. Just ate them for dinner, delicious.

Please remain on topic - mackeral being caught or not - in certain areas

discussions on rubbish, over fishing etc etc. goes into the angling issues section

please keep racist or discriminating views to yourselves and off this site - holidays will be applied to these type of posters

fish - focus on the fish!

just removed the unwanted posts. Stay on topic please

Dunlicky / the Castle Co clare,

As suspected the mac's are back, Took a drive out to see if anything was doing and as i neared the cliff i was ever so happy to see this wonderfull sight

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looks like a quality spot

catching in Bantry Bay now as far in as Adrigole, coming in bursts but more than enough generally for bait