Mackeral reports '06 here

Sorry. Meant to put this report in yonks ago. !9 Mackerel on the 23rd July from the pier in Ring. All on feathers

By the way Pollocks, same problem for me with the Mullet!!

Still large numbers about at Bangor, Co Down both of the pier and rocks towards Ballyholm. I was down in Waterford last week fishing Cunnigar and also caught some mackerel from the pier at Ring and driving over to Wexford to try for a smoothie I stopped at Dunmore east and caught 3 in 1/2 a dozen casts of the rocks behind the pier. All I wanted to put a big bait out on the chance of a tope.

We caught Loads of Mackerel and Pollock from Kells Bay area in Kerry over the bank holiday weekend.
Pulling in Pollock 3 at a time on the feathers.

The Mackerel were all a good size.
The Pollock varied - some good ones 4lb or so.

Macks everywhere in Courtmac. Might try and do a Jesus and walk across the water on their backs its so packed with them down here

Hello Blaker,
Are they around most of the time, or just in the evening with the high tide?

Is it safe enough for bringing little youngsters?

Blackie

An Rinn, Co. Waterford
Weds 16th Aug

8.30AM to 10.30AM

HT at 11.30

Nothing doing

Blackie

Blackie,

My apologies, I didn't see your question.

Evening timeis deffo best. They get themoff the pier so its safe as houses really.

hi there

have been out of Helvic a few times the last couple of weeks
most high tides in Helvic and Ardmore have been producing large amounts of macs.
But I'am not brave enough to try. You would want life insurance, Full armour. hard hat and goggles to try it.

Can anyone reading this tell me if mackeral fishing just as good in the morning as it would be in the evening (given good conditions, tide etc.)???

I fished Youghal one morning and I could see macks about but got none, the advantage is plenty elbow room while fishing in the mornings as opposed to busy evenings.

Blackie

Hello blackiemc,
From my experience the very early morning is as good if not better and as you said the advantage is plenty elbow room. I rarely meet more than a couple of people when fishing first light

I fish St Johns point d/gal last year, we started about 6 in the morning, by 11 we had dozen plus macs then the rest of the day was pollock and very few macs.

Thanks for that.

Any other current mackeral reports from around the country??

why:

catch fish
catch bait
bring youngsters fishing
try sea-fly fishing/v. light tackle
oh yes, and catch dinner :D

Blackie

Kinsale & Kinsale Bridge, this evening (Mon)

Me and my two youngsters

Result: Two disappointed nippers

Fished for about an hour to darkness (ht after 9PM) got nothing

saw about 6 mackerel between about 35 rods

Is this the slow finish of the mackerel season? Surely not.

There's no secrets being given away here! Why not help each other to catch a few macks while they're still about by channelling info to this site?

Blackie

Kinsale, Trident Hotel car park

I was in Kinsale in mid August and the macks were everywhere. Amazing to watch them in action. I was in the car park of the Trident Hotel, and looking over the edge of the barrier I could see them in the water working in packs, cornering the sprats and hoovering them up. There were a few people fishing, mainly young lads who threw back most of what they caught; good for them, the catch & release message is getting through, and not a black bin liner in sight.

There was also the inevitable (adult) idiot who nearly hit a woman with a lead weight as he prepared to cast without checking behind him first; this in a busy car park, where all you had to do was drop the line in the water and pull it up with fish on it, and there he was casting ! As the Tayto advert says on RTE "There's always one". :roll:

I read an article in the Irish Examiner about an Irish trawler called the "Atlantic Dawn". It spends 3 months at sea every year, catching around 1.8 million mackerel a day. around 16 million mackerel every season.

Make the most of them, as if they are being caught at that rate thy won't be around for much longer....

on those figures it sounds like they are out for only 10 days of those 3 months - and thats what they are reporting

imagine the by catches and other fisheries they are single handedly destroying by taking that much mack out of the ecosystem that quickly

crazy stuff :evil:

probably the same boat is lauded for its health and safety and worker conditions and abiding by eu regulations - yet in its own way its killing the planet :cry:

Any reports of Mackeral around north down or belfast lough still?

on those figures it sounds like they are out for only 10 days of those 3 months - and thats what they are reporting

imagine the by catches and other fisheries they are single handedly destroying by taking that much mack out of the ecosystem that quickly

crazy stuff :evil:

probably the same boat is lauded for its health and safety and worker conditions and abiding by eu regulations - yet in its own way its killing the planet :cry:

Sorry, Corbyeire, my numbers were out by a little bit ( :oops: ); 90 days at 1.8 macks per day is 160 million, not 16 million. I can't see how they would get that many, but even if 50% of the number is closer to the truth, that's 80 million macks a year gone. And you can bet they don't worry about the size of the fish.

And that's just one boat of many.

and you are right about the health and safety stuff etc. One day there will be no fish left, and all the trawler moaners will have no one to blame but themselves for the destruction of stocks; of course, they will blame everyone else from politicians to anglers, as usual.

when you think about it the mackie-bashers are doing nothing to the fish stocks in that context

whats 1000s to 160million!!!!!

double post :oops:

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