Mackerel Reports '11 here...

None Greystones yesterday, caught a few Launce though so they can't be too far away.

Castle Point nice size macks and pollocks

Good to see this tread is running again, always a good starting point on this web site to wet the appetite for a trip to the coast or even to fill the kitchen full of powerfull aroma
Der.

We should do a first dublin mackeral of the year,same way they do first salmon,have a venue voted in and whoever posts up venue and pic. Wins the admiration of everyone on the site.then sell it for a fortune to some hotel,well maybe not but wud be interesting thou,anyway i said dublin because i know theres parts of the west where u can get them all year,iv had em in castletownbere dec/jan,so vote on venue shore wud be most interesting

Fished out of bray head on saturday and caught a few herring and mackeral, not as many as we would of liked especially
after hearing a report that their was plenty to be had. Ah well it was good to get the boat in the water

Heard roumours of fish spotted breaking off Garryvoe beach, so im assuming that they were mackeral.

A few friends of mine tried Ballycotton pier the next day but no joy.

Havent heard of mackeral breaking off the beach in a long time so hopefully its a sign that there is gonna ba a lot of them around this year!

Fenit Bridge up to a week ago were being caught in big numbers, 20 to 30 and up to 40 a session, gone now as weather changed but after the spring tide it could produce good sessions again. Point in Kerry head if would chance it. Massive numbers anything up to 100 per session and double this on a good evening, Bad road and very very dangerous turns people off

20/05/2011 Rathmullan pier , 2 macks with feathers , time 2030-2100
14/05/2011 boat fishing rosespoint harbour,with feathers 20 macks , time 1000-1200

Balscadden rocks, Howth 24/5/11- Fished between 18.30-19.45 (HW at 17.55). No macks and no bait for the weekend ..................

Out on ballycotton pier last week bait fishing. There were a good few fluff chuckers along the wall but all they had were small pollack/coalies. No mack in sight yet.

14/5/2011 on boat with Brian Mcgilloway jnr out of Killybegs. Lots of good mackerel on feathers....4s and 5s. also sandeel. best in morning 10 until 12 am

had about 20 at bertie past westport last week on feathers only fished half a hour or so weather was brutal

dun laoire east pier feathers tide falling no macks 3 coalies

I caught 8 mackerel this evening from a rock mark in Bantry Bay. I tried feathers for a half hour without a touch so I put on a two hook flapper to try for some flatties. I caught 2 mackerel on the first cast, one on razor the other on frozen mackerel. I switched back to feathers and caught 5 more over the next half hour. Just before the tide turned I put the 2 hook trace back on and on the next cast I had a dogfish on the frozen mackerel and another mackerel on the razor.

Any reports a bit further North Boys, my freezer is empty

Zippo mackerel at Dun Laoghaire (end of west pier) on a tide rising into the sunset using black and pink feathers. Was out for about an hour. Saw gannets diving and a lad jig a pollack close to the wall. So, no mackerel north of Bray yet this year on the east coast?

I was out on the kayak yesterday around killiney. No takers. I was using pink hawk eye

I caught two mackerel on May 30, Dingle.

I caught two mackerel on May 30, Dingle.

where abouts in Dingle did ya get the macks amigo?

I caught two mackerel on May 30, Dingle.

where abouts in Dingle did ya get the macks amigo?

Do you know where is the ligthouse?