Mackerel Reports '11 here...

Started: 11:30am

Finished:2:30pm

Location: Dun Laoghaire west pier wall

Tide: incoming until 12:30

Tackle: Both of us- 3 hook feathers with 2 oz weight

Result: 8 mackeral between us and loosing one.

Where: Poolbeg
HW:1pm
Started: 1pm
finished: 4pm
Weather: blustery but clear
Weed: Little to none
Result: Blanked
BUT noticed the lighthouse crew did well! I was fishing down by the elbow

my first mackerel yesterday from the coombe.the german sprat done the damage.very scarce though......

Fished off Portrush Harbour wall today (Sun 14th Aug) + caught 8. Would have caught more but didn't stay untill high tide. H/T was at 7.30pm but i left at 6pm.

fished spiddal yesterday and got 7,one lad beside me had 3 and the other 20 anglers blanked while I was there

Fished Fenit pier up to and over high water both Saturday and sunday (13 & 14 Aug) along with tens of other hopefulls and there was only 2 or 3 fluke mackerel caught along the entire length of the pier over both days.

Saw a tiny dab and a red gurnard coming over the wall to baited feathers but nothing else other than the usual spider crabs there!

4 yesterday at Greystones, kilty.

8 mac Cobh hour before h/w yesterday 12anglers with the feathers out over a 3 hour period!judging by the "few" mac that did come in the numbers aren,t great "very hit and miss"

Greystones South beach

Saturday morning 1030-1330hrs.

Results: 1 mackerel on a silver kilty far out and not a tap afterwards.

dunmore east flat rocks 2.5 hrs at high tide 8 fishing not one cought. Seen sprats in close to the rocks a nice pollock come up after them. Hooked one when trying to temp the pollock and it turned out to be a tiny sand eel.

tried a local mark lastnight around the rocks in furbo, but no mackeral, had pleanty of pollock.......

Well the mackeral are in....after being patchy all summer they've arrived back into Cork Harbour in significant numbers over the last few days. Over the evening tides they have been seen regularly 'breaking' as they tear into the shoals of sprat. Anyone fishing the piers at Cobh or Monkstown should bag up.

We sent a crew out yesterday evening to catch bait for our up and coming Deep Sea Angling Festival and in three hours they managed to get 750 macks, only the onset of darkness prevented them from catching more. Now we need just 250 more for the freezer .

There is something wrong with the mackerels this year....
I'm used to fishing in Galway harbor and this year it was not that bad. 2 weeks ago I got 145 in 4h on feathers, last week I got 85 in 2h from Nimos Pier, some trips with 20-30 fishes as well. Last weekend- quite good- water was "boiling" and you have to cast 1-2m away to get 3-4 fishes.
But after this weekend they seem to disappear somewhere- I was on Wednesday and there was nothing.... ,a lot of anglers blanked, I got 3 macks with very long casts, but they seem to be strange, slim. At home I checked that inside they had a lot of something like "cod worms"- so they were just ill and that is why they stayed. It is a lot of seals, I saw 3 or 4 last time, so that is probably the reason why there is no fishes and the remaining ones have the cod worms.
Maybe it will be better in week or two...

Plenty of Mackerel in howth from the boat 18-8-11

fished skerries today.10 macks on the float in four hour.

mackerel in 3 hrs from a boat in newport

Dalkey Rocks yesterday evening and day before, quiet until 9pm, then it was 6 macks a cast, just got tired after a while and had what I needed.

The lads were out off bray head yestserday about 50 macks

i dont no how that (???) got in there

went back down to the local rock marks in furbo last night.... it was raining mackeral,,, big sholes,,,, with pleanty of big pollack around to............