Mackerel reports '09 here.....

I have fished for mackerel in Fenit for 15 years. This year has been the worst so far. In previous years I filled refuse sacks & could not give them away. The only macies being caught (very few) are with rigs with size 1 hooks tipped with a tiny piece of "mackerel" (leave the feathers at home). Plenty of room to fish (I wonder why) Must get a boat

I was in Fenit, Kerry last week. Mackeral fishing at the pier was desperate, i.e not a bite. Driving down the pier you never saw so many miserable lookiing faces in your life. I asked at the Beach Shop and the fella there said its been like that for the past two years, and he blames it on the large number of whales in the area (okay, that I don't mind) and the trawlers (that, I mind A LOT!).

In previous years when I fished there you could always count on a few stringfuls on the incoming tide and you;d have to get there early for space. As one aul'fella said to me, there were times you could practically dip a bucket in and pull them up.

Anyone got any good macky spots in the area from Tralee up to Banna? We're going down the last week of Auguat.

I had a bunch last week....from the boat off Innishboffin Island (out from Cleggan) and a load from the shore at Little Killary

Was fishing up in ''blackhead'' under the lighthouse at whitehead middle of august.

Plenty of Mackerel and i mean plenty. Went with my bro we caught atleast 13-14 each and no word of a lie they wer being caught on bare hooks.
There was plenty of people about around the rocks and the others around were there from early morning right up til we left which was around 7pm. The mackys were flying in. Plenty of sandeel just below our feet so that was the aubvious reason.

Good day for catching mackerel was hoping for wrasse or pollack no luck though.

Venue: Kinsale, Co. Cork
Date: 17th Sep
Time: 16.30
Tide: 1.5 hrs around high tide
Weather: settled, gentle easterly breeze
Rig: silver toby, luminous krill imitation rig
Results: mack on two casts in 1.5 hours (6 mack was ok though)

Thank God I have a report at last. I was hoping to get a lot of macks this evening all to be put to very good use. I probably arrived a bit late, nothing at all happenend once the tide turned.
There were people fishing the bridge but macks didn't seem too plentiful. Hopefully we'll get a good turnout over the rest of this fine spell.

Give us a last snap shot from around the country............

Blackie

Fished Portnoo yesterday, it appears the Macks are gone

we were fishing in keem,achill, last night,had about 30, and we were'nt really trying for them.

Hello all
New member.
Fished Kilkee castle point pm 18/9/09
4 Macks, one Garfish? (see photo) foul hooked. Rising tide, 15 to 20 guys jostling for a place, loads of crossed lines etc left after about a hour.

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one Garfish? (see photo)

Oh dear... cue Ahab...

Leave Ahab alone, he's a true gentleman I'll have you know.

out in fountainstown last night with the fly rod..
Macks breaking lots of baitfish and some eel's in the water...
i was on ringabella side and the mack were on the f.town side...= no fish...
typical!
Lots of green weed as usual at that mark...tide turned and had to go home ...weed flowing out of the bay ( fished into the dark)
clousers
gurglers
crease fly
baitfish
And a black semi floater/diver that i cant remember what its called....

fished coliemore rocks from 16:00-18:30 on Sunday and got 3 macks......

Lure fishing for bass yesterday evening (HT at 16.45) at rock mark on the Ring peninsula using various lures, shallow feed , patchinko's etc , not much action only a couple of follows, as soon as light faded Macks in large numbers hitting the shallow diving lures, four of us took about twenty in 15 mins it was nearly a fish a cast had to change over to single hook lures as there was lots of doubles and foul hooking going on. Might try at Helvick tonight should be there too around dusk.

Caught 6 macks off coliemore rocks yesterday afternoon.....

Here's one for ya. Checked the quays along Cobh tonight. Lads fishing for macks were picking up codling and not mini cod at that. These fish were all about 1- 2lbs, maybe 30 - 40cm, in size.

Hello all
New member.
Fished Kilkee castle point pm 18/9/09
4 Macks, one Garfish? (see photo) foul hooked. Rising tide, 15 to 20 guys jostling for a place, loads of crossed lines etc left after about a hour.

welcome to the site, some great people here to share yer fishing with.

Is there any still showin up lads was thinkin of gettin out tonight to see if i can get some fresh bait!

Hello,
Fished for a little while near the bridge at Youghal.
Using krill imitation got a string of small coalies on every cast, the place was teaming with them.
Interestingly there were regular passes below my feet of macks, but none showed interest in this lure that normally doesn't fail.
The evening was lovely, was about 1 hour post HT.
Might try Kinsale over the weekend, very last chance to stock freezer???

Blackie

cobh threw a few up last night, my mate proudly stuck the pic on facebook last night!

The odd few mack still showing up in cobh. Got two on monday and one wednesday.

Loads of mackerel being taken on feathers in ballycotton last weekend. As well as strings of coalies in amoung the mack.