Mackerel Reports for '08 here.....

One mackerel from greystones south beach for about half an hours feathering about 2 hours before high tide. :cry:

2 mac on the bottom - 1 to rotten ball of lug :shock:

the other to a fresh sandeel that a pollack spat out

had bombs flying all around me and none were had off the bottom

was at howth harbour on thurs 4 an hr, 2 ppl caught 1 each and dats da lot

Some mackerel were taken off Ballycotton Pier Sunday evening.
I was bait fishing off the breakwater - the main pier and breakwater were full of mack bashers but they were having no luck (apart from snagging my lines :evil: :evil: ) until about 9.15 pm when a guy landed a mack from the main pier. All the bashers had left the breakwater by that time and I was on my own. A few more macks were caught, including a couple of doubles from the pier.
I decided to have a go at mack bashing - first few casts produced nothing, then I switched feathers - and got a triple. After a few more casts landed a whopper - 41 cm mackerel. I got another three after that - meanwhile the catches off the main pier had died off. I guess the shoal was moving westwards.

I finished up after getting the seventh - happy enough with some fish for tomorrows dinner and a few for bait

Just tried this evening Clifden area, dirty evening, choppy seas, no sign of a mack for 1 hr fishing.

Blackie

Caught them off the Park, Cobh on Sunday night. Plenty of activity on the top of the water with three gannets working up and down the river.

One mack caught at Bangor Harbour today, just the one!

Caught them off Cobh yesterday afternoon. With the big tides coming up there should be plenty around over the weekend.

Few mackerel caught in the white hole in Wexford 3 nights ago. Haven't been down myself yet.

Good few macks and sandeel caught from dalkey harbour this morning on the spinner

2 mackerel and a pollock on feathers from greystones south beach. Lots of sandeel hopping out of the water.

they were in in blackhead last sunday in the middle of a stiff breeze and swell

but why you would want to fish there in that madness is another thing

Plenty of mackeral off the quays at Cobh for the last few nights. :D

few mackeral showing wicklow bay and wicklow head at the moment. sparse enough though.

loads of mackerel been got off Rathmullan pier this last couple of nights, and last night they were pulling in the scad four and five at a time on every cast......

Hello,
Been away from the web for a while.
Before I left I put up this graph:
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At the time this thread had about 14,000 hits, was asking if people thought the fall off in macks was a true feature (I thought it was).

When I get a chance I'll update the graph. I think that this thread could be a useful resource (also for future ref. to compare year to year), but only if it's supported by all the people who view it.

I'll try to go through all shore reports and give a more up to date version of this graph, but please, if you are new, or seasoned, and if you find this thread interesting then please support it. If you are new it's a great chance to get posting I think.

You don't have to be specific about the mark, but sometimes that's ok? (if I'm driving by Kinsale Bridge and I see macks being caught I'll report it here for the benefit of other users of the site).

I have a neighbour, his Dad is very sick, but fished mackerel when he was younger and healthy. I want to bring him fishing again, but I want to be as sure as possible of catching a few macks, I'm watching this thread for the hint to bring him, it's one example of why I think that contributing to this thread benefits fellow anglers (if you want to see other reasons look at the first post on this thread).

Cheers

Blackie

Venue: Clifden area Co. Galway
Date: First week of August
Time: various
Tide:
Weather: unsettled, gentle swell
Rig: luminous krill imitation rig
Results: Weeks of unsuccessful attempts here resulted in two sessions where macks appeared in the last week or so

I know that macks were quite scarce at times, even from the boat up to a couple of week ago in the area.

Blackie

Few Macks off Bannow Island last week.... (Co. Wex)
Can't get near with what 'caravans' are there at the moment though... :(

Venue: Bangor, Co. Down
Date: 11th August
Time: 7pm - 9.30pm
Tide: Full - Outgoing
Weather: Calm
Rig: Tinsel Feathers, Silver Toby
Results: Between 3 of us, only 1 mackerel and 5 small pollock

Some macks being caught on the ebbing tide this evening in Ardmore Co. Waterford and at the Quay in Youghal, not extra plentiful though

Blackie