Mackerel Reports '11 here...

first couple of mackerel from a rock mark on the swilly yesterday

Cheers tom,will hopefully be fishing it tomorrow or Saturday!

No macs, or anything else for that matter from Sorrento Point yesterday evening.

7 Macs. 1 hour fishing - Black Head Co. Clare today pm (2/6/11).

At last a report but alas no macks....

Got a lovely and rare boat trip in Cork Harbour and surrounds this PM (2/6).

Tried inside Cork Harbour, the mouth of Cork Harbour, towards Trabolgan, out to Daunt Rock, Cork Buoy, finished off drifting over Harbour Rock on the ebbing tide, zero mackerel, the weather made it a postcard perfect day otherwise!

(BTW we caught a lot of very small codling on shrimp lure, despite trying to avoid those little ones )

Blackie

tried bethra on tues night for a few....blankedy blank!

Just back from Orlock [near bangor] was packed out but one medium mac to report very early for this neck of the woods.

Tight lines

Orlock was busy? I hate it when that happens.

There are mackerel to be found in North Clare at all the normal marks over high water. Not big shoals yet but if you are willing to work for them there is enough for bait. A decent cast is needed. Small white baitcatcher style feathers working best today but black or silver also catching. Smaller rather than larger seeming to have most success. If the wind stays N/W forget it.

At last a report but alas no macks....

Got a lovely and rare boat trip in Cork Harbour and surrounds this PM (2/6).

Tried inside Cork Harbour, the mouth of Cork Harbour, towards Trabolgan, out to Daunt Rock, Cork Buoy, finished off drifting over Harbour Rock on the ebbing tide, zero mackerel, the weather made it a postcard perfect day otherwise!

(BTW we caught a lot of very small codling on shrimp lure, despite trying to avoid those little ones )

Blackie

Pretty much same as me last sat... however cod were to 4lb

I fished the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire during the week and had a couple on feathers. Didn't see anyone else catch one but that doesn't mean they weren't caught.

out in red bay on the boat on sunday past. we found one shoal of mackerel under the boat in mixed sizes. only a few over 30cm and the rest caught were all joeys. still patchy enough

sorrento rocks today from 14 to 17.30!!
7 lads fishing from rocks,before i arrived---results=0 mackerels!!blank

Saw my first mackerel of the year although both were fairly small - Dublin/Dun Laoghaire, wall at the end of the west pier. One caught at about 7pm and another at about 9pm. Think they were on feathers. HT at 7.30pm. Weather: clearing-up nicely with a south-easterly wind. Apparently there was a schoal of them. A lot of people fishing there. Only managed two whiting myself (on very gently-jigged pink feathers baited with someone else's mackerel). Also caught were a lot of small pollack and small flounder, a scorpion fish and something that might have been a sea-mouse.

Hi all,
Tried on Sheep's Head Penninsula on Sat, no joy this time. No sign of any down Bantry direction this past weekend.

Blackie

[ and something that might have been a sea-mouse.[/quote]

Is that a new entry for the dictionary for me. I thought it would never catch on.

3 hours spinning off the back of bangor pier co down yesterday. no mackerel to bee seen by myself or the other anglers who braved the rain . called past greys point on the way home no mack to be had there either.

None at Donaghadee pier yesterday either.

Tried 5 or so sessions with feathers / toby lures on Aran Islands over the past week and not a single mackerel (plenty of pollock). Mackerel were still further out from shore, most likely due to cool north-westerlies at the time.

Myself & the brother got four spinning today & they tasted very good was was told thers a lot been caught around most rock marks in the past few weeks at high water