Mackerel Reports for '07 here.....

Lots in Oysterhaven yesterday evening.

Beautiful spot..sheltered, warm, clear water teeming with sprats. A large bass swam straight past me on the rocks...had to do a double take as I initially thought it was just a mullet.

Any amount of mackeral being caught on the coombe area near carne.High or low water no difference, just coming up to dark the seem to be everywhere.

2 mackerel this evening at salthill, not many mackerel bashers out but not a whole lot of mackerel either

Filled a bucket last wednesday and another on Saturday out of Dun laoghaire.

Venue: Youghal
Date:11th Sep
Time: 4.30 to 5.30PM
Tide: up to just short of HT
Weather: overcast, light NW breeze
Rig:krill/shrimp imitation rig
Results: loadsa macks

The place was thick with them.
I'm off to the recipe page next!

Blackie

Went to Rostoonstown last night the place was alive with macks. I got down around 6.30 and there was a huge shoal breaking up to the right of the gap, they were still there at 8.00, every man woman child had dozens going home.

Venue: Kinsale
Date:12th Sep
Time: 5 to 6PM
Tide: up to just short of HT
Weather: overcast, light breeze, settled
Rig:krill/shrimp imitation rig
Results: 2 macks

Brought my lads plus another little 'un. Not much action, but enough to get the youngsters excited :D

Blackie

Caught six mackerel in Greystones this morning. Also caught a couple last night.

5 mackrel off Cahore Pier (Co. Wexford) last night, in the bay to the left of the pier strangely enough...

10 tonight (Sunday) straight off the pier in Kilmore Quay.

Baiting peeler crab and plugging for bass at both venues, not so much as a sniff :cry: .....

Hello,
Anyone who's interested in this thread please don't give up yet.
I expect that once the weather breaks in Sep then the large shoals of macks from shore are gone.
I just saw a forecast for a settled spell of weather into next week, it would be great to know if the macks will be available in numbers 'till the weather breaks again.
More macks please!!

Blackie

Venue: Youghal
Date:27th Sep
Time: 5 to 6.30PM
Tide: up to HT
Weather: sunny, light northerly breeze
Rig:krill/shrimp imitation rig
Results: not a sniff

The place was carpeted with them two weeks ago, no sign of anything this evening :( Is it all over, or are they shoaling somewhere??

Blackie

The unsettled weather at the weekend seems to have scattered them. Had only 1 yesterday in a 1.5 hour period concentrating on getting bait.

galway back of seapoint
1 monday morning was using tiny hooks lots of bites might be hereing ?and a few breaks of the water in about an hour

caught 1 mackerel when spinning for pollack 2nd october prob be the last i catch this season.

mackerel still being caught in dun laoighre yesterday east pier inside the harbour. water was bubbling with them, water full of sandeel too. plenty of happy dappys fishig for them and catching them too. also the seal was interested in them and looking for a free meal.

Saturday 6th October

Tinnebearna, kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford.
@ 4th hour of Ebb tide, 7pm;

Never saw such a shoal of mackrel in all my life - not even in Rostoonstown.
Lasted for at least 90 mins, Seagulls had a ball. Macks were nearly washing up on beach. 600 yards to the RIGHT of the stream....
Beach was littered with TINY little fish afterwards, obviously what they were feeding on. Water was boiling like a kettle!.

Saturday Oct 6th

One all morning out off Dun Laoghaire.
Got about 10 on the afternoon slack on the Codling Bank.
Got 20-30 in half an hour on the Frazer bank that evening.

Any mac showing on the east coast round Greystones ?

Got 3 yesterday off rocks behind Coliemore at high tide.

Got a good few mack on Friday at east pier Howth , spinning with tobies and wedge most of which are stuck to a Lobster pot or between the boulders :? :lol: