Mackerel Reports for '08 here.....

Tried Dalkey saturday morning for a few hours as I needed fresh bait for saturday night.

Not a single mack, place was awash with F.N's, who were even keeping 3" sandeels for dinner :shock:

Needless to say it was a trip to the fishmonger for my bait :oops:

was bottom fishing a 2 hook flapper on the bottom with lug and mack

got a mack on the way in Feorinyeeo Bay (according to the OS map) near mullaghroe in belmullet

was sure others there to be had - but ran out of lead :roll:

Picked up two dozen off the quays in Cobh over low water this morning.

They were showing in patches in most areas of Cork Harbour on Sunday, particularly around the Bank.

im now officially a mack basher :oops: i caught two mack yesterday. me and friend went to howth at 4pm stayed till 10pm. plenty of people there found it hard not to get caught up in other peoples lines,especially when others around me where doing their best to kill each other with rods. :twisted: they were not drinking,hash heads left the place in bits i think i was the only one to catch some :lol: at least it was an intro to fishing and a special thanks to debbie in the shop gems, I had lost my wallet, my wife rang me to tell me she found it I had no ph num in it she must have looked up my name in phone book. after 6hrs with those looney bins on the rocks it was nice to see there are some decent people left on this planet :wink:

got 14 from bangor lastnite in an hour and half plenty moving around the area

nice one, well done. good to know might take a run down some time this week.

Give me a shout if your going Steve.

will do mate. when suits you?

Any evening after 7

Fished Fisherman's Wharf at Cobh early this morning. Had 8 macks in two casts. Enough for bait and called it a day :D . Seems to be plenty of mackeral and there were about 5 gannets working steadily up and down in front of the quays. Surprisingly, I was the only one fishing along the whole stretch of quays :shock: .

I'm going to try catch a few macks this evening in Cobh, but it will be my first time ever fishing from Cobh (I usually fish from Crosshaven / Roches Point). Can someone tell me what would be a good place to try and get a few macks on feathers - if possible use the following Google Maps link to point me in the right direction:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g ... 7&t=h&z=16

Any advice would be appreciated

8 mack lastnite in bangor, on whats locally called the creek

I'm going to try catch a few macks this evening in Cobh, but it will be my first time ever fishing from Cobh (I usually fish from Crosshaven / Roches Point). Can someone tell me what would be a good place to try and get a few macks on feathers - if possible use the following Google Maps link to point me in the right direction:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g ... 7&t=h&z=16

Any advice would be appreciated

Sorry, didn't see your post till too late. Fished the pier head this morning but only had 1 for my efforts. The water was very coloured after the heavy rain earlier in the week. This has probably flushed the macks further out.

there were macks being caught off bray head yesterday.

i'm going to howth on the east pier to see if there's any macks about tomorrow afternoon. anyone else up for it??

only a few being caught in howth today. very very windy!!

Bangor Seacliff road rocks (the creek),

4 Macks caught on Saturday cheers immunecfg for the info.

Jonny

no bother mate glad to help

Got 10 on friday. Took 45mins, disaster.
Got worse on Saturday 8 in an hour of drifting. Both days around Scotsmans and dun laoghaire.
Spent the whole day jigging on anchor out at the banks and got 2. Very poor!