Mackerel Reports for '07 here.....

Hi

1 august 07

The fjord is apparently stuffed to bursting with them, all sizes with the bigger uns closer to the mouth but even at that it is a lottery what hits first...

Just fished the high tide at Greystones (rocks behind the pier). Not one mackeral caught. Used german sprat and feathers. Anyone had any luck at this spot? I might fish the high tide for a few days in a row and see if I get any .....

just out feathering in my kayak in killiney, not a mackerel in sight! one Pollock though

the guillamene was alive with em tonight. i was there for maybe 30 mins as it got dark and got a few for meself and a few for the folks. people were takin away binbags full of fish though, more than they'd ever eat. theres gonna be a lot of wheely bins stinkin of rotten fish in a couple of days

dave

The Bridges of Ross in Clare is fishing slow for mackerel, i met 3 of my friends there on thursday they had been fishing from 11am untill 5pm and had only 20 fish, i fished alongside them for an hour and caught 4 it would have been 6 but the seal that hangs around there plucked my last 2 off one at a time,
a word of warning if you plan to fish there the seal is always around and has in the past got tangled up on my mates 80lb braid the silly man would have been pulled in only for the quick action of the guy next to him cutting the braid, my advice is adjust the drag to suit and keep a firm grip while reeling in fish,

Popped down to Newcastle (Wicklow) for a short while to see if I could pick up any mackerel. The water was quite coloured close in and there was plenty of loose weed around so figured it was pointless staying and left after 25mins. :oops:

Me and two others fished rocks between Barna and Spiddle last night and got 50 mackeral. Lots of sprat and birds showing. Called into Spiddle pier on the way home and saw mackeral everywhere. The sea was alive with sprat and the mackeral were even up on the beach something I have never seen there before.

Caz

Been down to Greystones (rocks behind pier) for the last few days at high tide to see if I could catch the mackeral in. No luck yet. Will keep trying for a few more days...

Mike

Got a both forty mack for bait last Saturday around the far side of the Bailey lighthouse.

plenty of mack down salthill

Any numbers along the south coast?

Blackie

loads of them in bantry friday night. a few beached themselves trying to get sprat

parkmore pier was alive with them tonight

there was also some long grey thing with teeth in amongst them :lol:

wish i had a mack flapper and some serious line with me!!!!!!!!

salthill and blackrock is the place to be to stock up on free bait..
arms are sore from pulling them in 3-5 at a time.. between myself and nige we filled a mustad bucket :D

Massive breaks in front of Cobh on the incoming tide tonight. Bashers were picking them up in numbers all along the quays and right down to Cuskinny Bay.

Just the one (1 lb?) in Greystones yesterday afternoon. That was the only fish activity I saw in about 4 hours!

Castlerock side bar mouth

Heavy rain and 30-40mhp winds (soaked!)

Just 2 Mack on feathers. Reckon could have had more if conditions were better and only gave it an hour. Allot of bird activity tho

still nothing in dublin area?

Ardmore pier & wall - stacked full of Mackeral including large ones. Taking everything, feathers, toby's, dexter wedge, mackeral strip, sandeel.

Even taking bare hooks.

Good few mackerel showing at Monkstown last night