Mackerel Reports '11 here...

Fishing off the rocks near Rocky Bay near Carraigaline, Cork yesterday evening from the high tide for an hour, only one average sized Mack.... Better than nowt.

Just back from Greystones, got 15 on the beach using a Kilty.

Nice one, great way to catch them as well.

Perfect evening for chasing the macs last night. Went to Sorrento Point. Maybe 60 casts with spinners and then small white bait catchers. No macs.

Two other lads had a mac each in the space of one minute. Nothing else as far as I could see. I think the Dolphins in Killiney Bay have had them all.

Balscadden was a complete blank this morning

Think it will be late july before we see any decent numbers

When I read "Plenty of macks outside Dun Laoghaire harbour today " and having caught abso no mack this year on east pier, I packed my stick head off to west pier the next day (Tuesday). 7 of us stood like greek gods pillars on the edge + 4 men on a boat, braving the rear gust, the result? A big naught. Then I thought, may be they had drifted away for a day or 2, so I tried again Thursday, this time the opposite pier, same result. Again this evening, still nothing. I'm now convinced when someone said outside the harbour, they probably meant 3 miles away.

A few caught at greenore this evening not too many though,i was bait fishing over low water hoping for a ray ,had a slackliner then it took off like a bullet and stripped off about 50 yards of line then stopped then slowed and took off again and gone the rig was roughed up and hook straightened,an amazing two minutes,tope?

6 hours fishing at st johns point area donegal bay yesterday and i tried everything and never got a pull. seen plenty of small shoals of sprat & small sand eels but nothing seemed to be after them not even the sea gulls. i got a sickener hope i do better next time out hopefully this warmer weather brings the macks in closer .

6 hours fishing at st johns point area donegal bay yesterday and i tried everything and never got a pull. seen plenty of small shoals of sprat & small sand eels but nothing seemed to be after them not even the sea gulls. i got a sickener hope i do better next time out hopefully this warmer weather brings the macks in closer .

Strange. I was up at St.Johns Point myself last night from 4.30pm - HT @ 6.45. Conditions were absolutely perfect. I was totally convinced I would have a fish within 1/2 hr...... absolutely nothing in 3 hrs - I tried everything, SP's, sub-surface lures, Mac Rigs - nothing ! I couldn't believe it. There should have been fish. What's happening

Nothing on Bray Head today an hour either side of HT.

Myself & Twinkle were out in Howth today on the Edelboy. Got 40 Mackeral. Some decent sizes but also a lot of Joeys. Better than nought.

Hi,
Got reliable info of more macks caught by boat in Cork Harbour yesterday, first for him this year.

Fair play to all of you reporting blanks, that's great info for the purpose of this thread

Blackie

Hi,
Got reliable info of more macks caught by boat in Cork Harbour yesterday, first for him this year.

Fair play to all of you reporting blanks, that's great info for the purpose of this thread

Blackie

fished the back of irelands eye and nowt today seen two boats catch the odd few little joeys,not worth the hassle

Hi,
Got reliable info of more macks caught by boat in Cork Harbour yesterday, first for him this year.

Fair play to all of you reporting blanks, that's great info for the purpose of this thread

Blackie

fished the back of irelands eye and nowt today seen two boats catch the odd few little joeys,not worth the hassle

If you can't a decent mack around Ireland's Eye, we are all fooked

went out today with her good self. we went to west clare off the flat rocks. got there at 3 fished till 7 . there was a good few mackerel fishing and we were trying everything but no luck finally i found a pack of shrimp like feathers with very small hooks in the box . first cast 6 mack and it went on like that for about a hour.the usual hoiki feathers are too big. so the macks are in but my advice use very small hooks and the macks were down deep. tight lines.

I went out about three miles offshore yesterday near boatstrand, waterford. Only a codling and a couple of gurnard. Moved around, still nothing. Worked my way shorewards, and about a mile offshore I finally found the mackerel - pulled three dozen out in about an hour. A mix of sizes, and caught them in ones and twos at a range of depths - on a fairly battered set of feathers too. Pretty much what I would expect for this time of year, thank God. Hopefully the cracking weather of the last few days will bring more in towards shore.

Just got back off weavers point, crosshaven, Went to see the tallship going out. no wind so they never opened thier sails, most unfortunate.

from 30 mins past high tide to 2 hours later we had 8 macks, nice big ones too.They stayed in the pool well past outgoing tide. High tide was 8 in the morning we fished from half past stopping to photo the ship.

So its looking good, and iam gonna enjoy my dinner.

Fished St Johns Point yesterday 2pm to 7pm and drew a blank. To make things worse I saw a few others bringing in strings of mackerel. Think my hooks and feathers were too big. Disapointing to see so much rubbish left behind by both native and foreign anglers.....gives us all a bad name

Saturday 11:00-12:00 at Clogherhead - I blanked, but a couple oriented caught one. On Sunday we were out in a boat & caught plenty by Dundalk bay, near the Imogen buoy.

Well pan and bait fridge full...bout 30 Macks and good size to of Mark 79 BallyVaghan this morning Tide full and droppin...Great Fun

Well pan and bait fridge full...bout 30 Macks and good size to of Mark 79 BallyVaghan this morning Tide full and droppin...Gre

Can't wait. I'll be there in August.