Shore Mackerel Reports '14 here...

Mackeral breaking tonight in channel in front of Cobh

Looking forward to some of those great pics you posted last year of the breaks in the harbour.

They are all over the place at the mouth of oyster haven,cork.Big too,all 1.3lb+ great fun on light gear.

loads being caught in kingsale on yak and shore huge size not to tasty so far need to be well fed on sprat for that

I've been out 4 times since Friday, no Macs but I had a few sandeel while spinning in cobh yesterday morning, I've seen some very small pockets of mackerel breaking since Friday , i had a few Pollock , since Friday I've tried cobh and crosshaven on each high tide morning and evening I've heard they are being caught in kinsale this morning and off the rocks in ballycotton two nights ago, im gonna toss a coin later to see where going tonight, there's a trawler having work done it in cobh this morning so the pier was limited for casting space

5 large mackerel last night at dusk on Inis Oirr on silver feathers. That was over an hour and a half of fishing.

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I wonder is this the results of over fishing the mackerel by iceland and co. I haven't of heard of a single mac taken in dublin yet. I know they can be late up here but u guys down south are not getting much .we know they will arrive soon but there getting later and later each year. It could be down to global warming and season's shifting or overfishing or maybe both. Either way its not looking good for the mackerel.

Went out last Friday and they are still there in Clare... though we didn't fish long this time... we still got loads... more pollock included this time roughly 3-4 lbs each...

Any in youghal or ardmore yet lads .... ive heard of a couple on the rocks in hook headand a good few just off the shore in slade

Had a good few on Fenit pier last sunday morning. Lots of small ones with the odd bigger one. Plenty being caught around us too.

One Mac caught on Tues near Bangor, would'nt say Mac are in are in but it's a start.

An hour before high yesterday evening at collimore produced phook all apart from "HELLO!" From you know who. Those who fish there will know what I'm on about.

An hour before high yesterday evening at collimore produced phook all apart from "HELLO!" From you know who. Those who fish there will know what I'm on about.

heard of somone on the bus fri coming from the west pier dunloire with at least 12 fresh macks

nothing to show in howth wednesday evening.

Heard there was a few at the guillamenes in Tramore.


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Heard there was a few at the guillamenes in Tramore.


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saw the first mackeral being caught today on killiney beach on rag

Gentlemen...the Mackerel have arrived in Howth!

Game-On!

good numbers?

Starting to show around dungarvan/helvik to ballquinn.

Had two this evening in fanad over a 3 hour period, big tide too!..surely there should now about by now!?

I decided to go Conger fishing last night and left all my spinning gear at home and Murphy's law applied, Mackerel over the three spots I looked at in East cork, lads were catching from Ballycotton to Guileen , decent sizes 1lb to a lb and a half,I helped one elderly man land 3 on the one line, they were fat heavy feckers, their not in in large shoals but decent size they appear to be chasing the huge shoals of sand eel , thank god i had my net I got two nice bait boxes of sand-eel for the freezer along with a half a dozen dogfish and I lost a conger as I missed the bite , I was busy with the net. Back out again after work at 6pm