Shore Mackerel Reports '14 here...

Macks are very scarce this year. Nothing in Cobh or Monkstown!!!. Perfect weather but no fish? Where are all the macks gone to?

Nothing out from ballinacourty 2 kayaks pulling feathers across to eddy island not a sign of macks plenty of seals and a dolphin broke infront of my uncles layak yesterday morning there ..... Lads on the boat have been getting them they had 23 yday all big they live on the pier and said that there hasnt been one mack caught of the pier yet this year but theyre getting them on the boats dissapointing year

Nothing out from ballinacourty 2 kayaks pulling feathers across to eddy island not a sign of macks plenty of seals and a dolphin broke infront of my uncles layak yesterday morning there ..... Lads on the boat have been getting them they had 23 yday all big they live on the pier and said that there hasnt been one mack caught of the pier yet this year but theyre getting them on the boats dissapointing year

a few small breacks down in ringaskiddy last night

Where about in ringaskiddy? I'm thinking of heading to Cobh this afternoon from about 3:30, but if they are in ringaskiddy it will save me trip all the way to Cobh

a few small breacks down in ringaskiddy last night

Where about in ringaskiddy? I'm thinking of heading to Cobh this afternoon from about 3:30, but if they are in ringaskiddy it will save me trip all the way to Cobh

Lots of guys feathering of monkstown at high tide , not one mackerel caught

Was out in fanad head today, great weather, could be a bit too warm but not a mackerel to be seen...this time last year and the few years before..you could nearly put ur hand in the water and lift them out!..

kinsale today waste of time 6 of us fishing at the point brigde was full not a fish between anyone

Caught about 20 off a boat out of dunmore but they're very scarce


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sorry so late text the stoney beach in ringaskiddy

plenty caught in king sale yesterday on yaks

Nothing off knockadoon and ferrypoint today on both the morning and evening tides

Nothing happing around Bulmullet. We have been out a good few times and nothing.

hook head / slade .... i fished on boat and off rocks ..... no mackerel ... very very worrying .... also lost 15 sets of feathers on rocks .... worse place ever

i wonder if anglers in England and Wales are catching any Mackerel?

I'm told plenty of mackerel in Swansea bay with lots being caught off most rock marks

Sea angler mag started a thread on their Facebook page similar to this one it looks like the mackerel situation is the same as here reports of sporadic catches but no consistency.
I noticed there are a load of jelly fish everywhere I've been, correct me im wrong but don't they show when the temperature of the water rises, I always thought that the same applies to mackerel and they leave as the sea cools around sept/oct . Last year mackerel were being caught right up to December.
Has anyone tried Helvick near dungarvan I was in Ardmore yesterday and nothing was happening , one of the locals told me to try Helvick.

I was in helvik yesterday and not a sign of anything being caught.

One thing the guys in Swansea are saying might be worth a bit thought and give a glimmer of hope . The arrival of the mackerel has also shown a big rise in the number of bass being caught , lots by free lining a joey back down into the shoal . They are also saying a large increase in school bass being caught which is good for the future . The mackerel were at least a month late arriving in Swansea so it might just be the same here . Not sure but a bit of a positive note