Mackerel Reports '11 here...

Richie you say that your "Just back from Greystones, got 15 on the beach using a Kilty."
Well done, congrats! Just one questions, I'm assuming that was at the end of the South Beach? (close to Ballygannon). I hear that some Sea Bass have been caught there in the last 10 days or so. Would appreciate 'a steer' on this as I'm thinking of heading out this evening or tomorrow...


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A bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office!

Just wondering what size Kilty. I have one which is quite big. About 32 grammes I think. Is this too big for mackerel?

When the mackerel are feeding hard you could tie a hook onto a table spoon and they would go for it. When there are less of them about the smaller feathers or lures can do the business. I've caught them on six inch bass plugs and Japanese micro spinners. They have been known to take bare hooks.

Richie you say that your "Just back from Greystones, got 15 on the beach using a Kilty."
Well done, congrats! Just one questions, I'm assuming that was at the end of the South Beach? (close to Ballygannon). I hear that some Sea Bass have been caught there in the last 10 days or so. Would appreciate 'a steer' on this as I'm thinking of heading out this evening or tomorrow...


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A bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office!

Just wondering what size Kilty. I have one which is quite big. About 32 grammes I think. Is this too big for mackerel?

caught 3 from wicklow harbour at 9.30pm last night on feathers

10-15 "anglers" at the guillamine in tramore yesterday, only saw 1 mackerel caught in 2 hours over high water.

was out in a boat yesterday in donegal bay macks few and far between and very small just about got enough to keep 6 men going for bait half day trip. would not inspire me to try for them of the rocks anytime soon. caught some good pollock,cod, coalies and pounting turned out a good sesssion and the weather was top class.

[kerrywez]

Was on Fenit today and they were scarce to say the least, the lad with me got a Launce, a small pollock and a sea scorpion, but no Macks. There was a Asian bloke there who had about 7 small Macks and just before we left another guy had just caught one. I have read elsewhere in this thread that they seem to be taking very small hooked lures and all I can say is that the only two anglers to catch any Macks were using something like shrimp rig terminal tackle, very small hooked at any rate. I should just add that this was at the pier head and there were some 6 to 8 anglers there. Just hardly worth the trouble and effort going to try for Macks.

Regards Wez

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Was at old head a high water,didn't bother getting the gear out,a few lads were fishing there and zilch...this time last year they were launching themselves onto hooks,wots goin on??they're very patchy all over it seems and very small

Load of people going for them today in Dun Laoghaire. Seen 1 landed thats about all. Pretty poor year so far but on the plus side I got my first tub gurnard which im pretty happy about so f**k you Mackerel!

Richie you say that your "Just back from Greystones, got 15 on the beach using a Kilty."
Well done, congrats! Just one questions, I'm assuming that was at the end of the South Beach? (close to Ballygannon). I hear that some Sea Bass have been caught there in the last 10 days or so. Would appreciate 'a steer' on this as I'm thinking of heading out this evening or tomorrow...


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A bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office!

Just wondering what size Kilty. I have one which is quite big. About 32 grammes I think. Is this too big for mackerel?

They only come in 32g as far as I know, never seen them smaller, anyway this is perfect for casting and perfect for Mackerel, they're not fussy and will take any colour although my favourite are the green and red.

Not a Mackerel report per se, but.... I also remember loads of Macks being caught in the good auld days. Anyway, the ants left their nests yesterday (14/7/11) which is very very late. Last year is was around the end of May. Maybe this has something to do (natures timing) with the very late appearance of the Macks.

I assume this thread is still alive ?

So far in July

Hook Head in front of the Lighthouse, 22 caught with Fladen Shrimp. Some good pollack also.

Slade - 17 caught with over 50 Pollack with Gowan & Bradshaw flashers , the usual marrk off the boat rock at rock 16

Slade - Mark 5 - We landed a huge number of pollack, 60 and one Coalfish, between 2 of us in a 4 hour session, all were returned with the exception of 4, which made quite a nice breakfast. Caught on a mixture of G&B Flashers & Redgills. Not a single Mac caught in this session.

Cheers

well back to BallyVaghan yesterday...4 good macks on incoming tide (30 last week in same place!) shore-line was packed but no-one got big numbers...good show of pollock when the tide dropped...

Load of people going for them today in Dun Laoghaire. Seen 1 landed thats about all. Pretty poor year so far but on the plus side I got my first tub gurnard which im pretty happy about so f**k you Mackerel!

well done on the gurnie Jay, meself and skell are tryin for a few maks tomorrow morning if your about!

Not a Mackerel report per se, but.... I also remember loads of Macks being caught in the good auld days. Anyway, the ants left their nests yesterday (14/7/11) which is very very late. Last year is was around the end of May. Maybe this has something to do (natures timing) with the very late appearance of the Macks.

The last 2 years have been the same mackerel wise in Dublin - very late showing, if at all!

small macs showing out at carraroe and inner galway bay

Out in Cork Harbour between buoy 5 and roches point and got about 30 macks between 3 of us. hit and miss.

None Greystones, 19/07, mind you that was at low tide.

Mackerel could vanish from Britain’s fishmongers + supermarkets within 3 years because giant foreign trawlers + factory ships are allowed to strip out the entire stock,scientists have warned.Dozens of vessels including some from Russia + the far east have moved into the waters around the Faroe islands +Iceland, after the islands abandoned quota agreements to protect stocks.Instead hundreds of thousands of tonnes will be swallowed up by factory ships such as the Hong Kong controlled Lafayette,it steamed into Faroese waters recently + is processing 1360 tonnes daily.
The vessel is just one of several such ships working around the Faroes.They and Dutch owned fish processing plant in the Faroes are being supplied by 20 super trawlers.Similar operations are taking place around Iceland.”There were about 3m tonnes of adult mackerel in the northeast atlantic at the start of the year but by the end we will have removed about a third of the entire breeding stock” said Paul Fernandez, a leading fisheries researcher at Aberdeen university.”The fishery will collapse”.
Mackerel were,until last year,protected by coastal states agreement involving the EU,Norway,Iceland + the Faroes,Russia had observer status.Under the agreement about 64% of the 580,000tonnes caught each year went to EU countries. 26% to Norway + about 5% each to Russia + the Faroes.Recent years have seen a booming demand for fishmeal for which summer caught mackerel are perfect.When the Faroes + Icelandic governments asked for a larger share of the quota so they could exploit this market they were rebuffed by the other coastal states.After talks failed last year they decided to pull out of the agreement + offered their fleets a massively increased quota of about 136,000 tonnes each.As there are approx 50,000 people living in the Faroes this equates to about 2.7tonnes of mackerel a person.The EU,Norway +Russia responded by refusing to cut quotas for their fleets.The result is a stalemate that will push the likely total catch to 907,000 tonnes.Even the Faroe islands fisheries director, admitted that the mackerel fishery had become “a disaster in the making.”
Richard Benyon,Britains fisheries minister said mackerel would top the agenda when EU fisheries ministers meet this week.

yesterday about 9 p.m. catch 6 from Kinsale rocks

None Greystones, 19/07, mind you that was at low tide.

My mate was out fishing there next day on a full to falling early morning tide and caught 6 mac