Mackerel Reports '10 here......

nothing around skerries, fished it 3 times over a week from a kayak? the macks are like hen's teeth right now for me !!

spoke to a guy tonight who got 6 over 4 hours at poolbeg! tough going.
a bunch of us are heading there saturday for a session, i haven't really tried for them yet.
i prefer august. end of june early july seems to ease off for mac, well methinks!

got 26 in north connemara yesterday

plenty in rathmullan on monday ,tue&thur not so good .

any mack in cork?

Whats the ideal sea temp was looking at the sea bouy observations.
M5 off the south east coast is reading 17.4 degrees centigrade at 8pm .
M3 was off south west coast was reading 16.4 at 2 pm.

http://www.marine.ie/home/publicationsdata/data/buoys/observations.htm#M2

Out of Dunlaoghaire yesterday (friday 25th ) with two of the lads from 7.30 pm to 10 pm and got 80 .Beautiful calm evening .This is what mack bashing is all about .

Went out again this morning with one of the less successful lads and got 12 between us from 11.30 to 13.30 .Seas much rougher .I felt for the lads casting off the shore given their chances of catching a lot less than ours and much harder on the arms .

After all the effort the comp is off tomorrow in Wicklow (rightfully so looking at the forecast ) so into the freezer with the lovely macks.

saturday was a weedfest at poolbeg. totally unfishable!! sorry for dragging the lads out! ended up fishing for whiting and dogs in dun laoire! there was a guy there getting a couple of mac off the back of the east pier!

Caught a dozen this morning at buncrana pier .

Hi Lads

Got 5 yesterday at Castle Point Co.Clare. I was hoping to load up the freezer with bait but ......Only a few people there and they didn't seem to be getting many. Only saw one other landed during my 1.5 hours there. Don't know how I managed 5!

A little off topic, but the place was a disgrace. Beer cans and bottles ( not the best place to be unsteady on your feet is Castle point!) , old tackle wrappings ,I even saw an old nappy. Its the same every year I go there. Sickening really.

Trouble.

Haven't been out this year yet due to illness but it IS a disgrace. Why do gobs***s go out of their way to litter like this?Can they not sit in their own garden and chuck it there?

Anyway. More on topic, any reports from Waterford area?

John

still nothing skerries way, seems that they're not getting past the feathers at poolbeg

I got my first few mackerel of the year last night down on the rocks in Bangor. I float fished for them using small sandeel. There seems to be plenty about now which is great. It's always good to have a few in the freezer for bait.

me and my friend got about 40 at st johns point, there was that many people though it was almost unfishable

nothing in dalkey

Caught one mack off wicklow south pier this morning (3hr session).Loads of small pollack about.

Tried for an hour in Scotsman Bay this morning. No Macks loads of whiting.
Headed out to the Kisk. Not one fish.
Tried scotmans again in the evening. 2 macks for an hour.

Had 3 in Myrtleville, Cork last night. Another guy caught 3 also. This was over about an hour and a half.

Fished fountainstown back and front beach and poll gorm last night. I chucked everything i had in the tackle box in and out of the sea and ended up with nothing ta show for it. Weed was a big problem too.

been fishing hulbowline with no mackerely joy. Few random others but nothing worth talking about

been snorkling from myrtlville and pol gorm quite a bit. there are a lot of sandeels, a goood few whiting and a few pollock about but havent seen a single mack.