Mackerel Reports '10 here......

Plenty being caught in Clogherhead off the pier. However, good skill and a big reel required to avoid the army of seals just waiting to ambush your haul.

Caught oodles & oodles of them from a Bulloch Boat yesterday. They were quite close in and the place was teeming with them. There was plenty of other small boats around most of which were catching them for fun. Great craic on small spinning rod!

Any caught off Wicklow pier

i was down staying down in brittas bay 2 weeks ago on hols and took the young lad to see the lifeboat station on the pier in wicklow one of the days, there were a couple of guys on the back of the pier fishing ..one or 2 mackerel , some small pollack, nowt much else, guys in boats off shore were fairing better it seemed.

well lads what you think ,has it been a terrible season for macks this year,brutal so far if you ask me ,well it has been up here in carlingford lough.

went out to a huss mark only a couple of weeks ago only a few mile offshore from bettystown and i could'nt get through them. couple of days later i saw a couple of big trawlers dragging nets together all day long only a couple of miles out and have seen them again yesterday,and thats only what i've seen, wont take them long to get the bulk of the shoals and who knows what else

I was down in wicklow on sunday for half a day far side of the town on the rock beside the golf course and only got one small pollock very bad fishing but beautful day great way to top up on the tan

god there so many of them down here where im from in mayo.haha our feathers must be more tastier

Its been a great year so far in dublin bay for the macks ,now all we need is to get our hands on the SAM MAGURIE to make it a fantastic year

I put up the same report about a year ago, the mackerel fishing in Dublin the last two years have been crap

it has been pretty hit and miss this year in howth. now in saying that there out there. but not in the usual spots.the back of the island this year was dreadful.but we managed to find other spots i have found they move in to shallower water as the season moves on.

Worst I've seen it in Helvick/Waterford. Seem to be plenty of bass about though. 30 hours in 4 weeks out for macks. result = 4!!!!!

any sign of mackeral from the shore, south east wexford, ie coombe, rosdoonstown etc

Not a sniff so far this year... they're WAY out.
Although Rostoonstown still managing to pull 20-30 people per night at the mo, it wont last if their not catching fish...!
(Bashers have limited patience )
You can see them way out off Rosslare Point, about a mile out off the harbour wall - no prob if your in a boat.
The Bass down here seem to be in unusual spots too lately...

got 1 at DL east pier around 20:30 this evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-n ... d-11038358 take a look at this

I heard there are mackerel at the back of Arklows North Pier does anyone know if this is true? Or any catches in the area recently?

They were giving themselves up at the Flats, Ballyvaughan tonight. Still a long way out. Once I got enough for bait( on silver flasher with hardly any feather!) I went through a load of different colours to see if there was anything they wouldnt take but they seemed to be hungry and took the whole spectrum.

still a ZILCH on macks but caught two lovely bass on sidewinders at 5.30 am Sunday morning last. Thought I'd boo boo'd after zero on german sprats after an hour. first ray of light on the horizon and I switched to the sidewinder on the back of the Cunnigar Spit in Dungarvan. First cast BANG! 48cm bass. 2nd cast BANG again 52 cm. Nothing after that.

Wonderful way to spend a Sunday - and the day was only starting

I'd say its been very good all over Clare this year... As per my weekly sessions... never hit any bad day since May... Mack on weekends... for the table and for bait during the week... then back again on another weekend... again for the table and for bait the coming week... cycle has been very good so far and I am happy with Mack fishing... only thing that bothers me is that since May I have never gone out and back home with less than half of a rubbish bag full of litter... most recently the other day... I got like 30+ Macks for 1.5 hours and loads of rubbish on the mark.... I got 6 bottles of beer, almost 10 different beer cans and loads of tangles up lines and feather wrappers... My bin weight is getting used up by these rubbish but its the only small way I can help...

Overall... 2010 Mack sessions are awesome....

Myself, Twinkle & his 2 lads went out from Howth today. Managed to catch 50 mackeral and some pollock. Some of the mac's where bloody huge. They are still around thank god.