SHORE MACKEREL REPORTS 2015

[jast83]

Plenty of macks on saturday (1st Aug) in Kinsale harbour

[czikago]

Any news about HookHead macks? Thanks a lot for any info.

same question again, any news?

[Chopin]

Are there any reports of mackerel in Dunmore East or anywhere in the Waterford area?

[Richie07]

1 mack from greystones tonight, kilty at distance. Really very poor sad to say. There are just not many fish about anymore.

[Tofish]

Plenty out at balscadden cliffs yesterday all very small not nice to see full strings reefed out of the water and swung around the place

[seanaway]

Plenty out at balscadden cliffs yesterday all very small not nice to see full strings reefed out of the water and swung around the place

Seen some guys taking hundreds of them, all tiny. I can't understand how anybody can take small fish, and nobody could possibly need so much. The greed was sickening me, I had to leave. They were also littering so much it was just obscene

[s50touring]

about 20 mack from blackhead yesterday along with a few dog's

[pierfishing]

Any around ballycotton might head out this week...??

[Pyreneenguy]

Plenty out at balscadden cliffs yesterday all very small not nice to see full strings reefed out of the water and swung around the place

Seen some guys taking hundreds of them, all tiny. I can't understand how anybody can take small fish, and nobody could possibly need so much. The greed was sickening me, I had to leave. They were also littering so much it was just obscene

The waste is tragic. Mackerel do not survive after being man-handled, see :

http://www.sacn.org.uk/Articles/Releasing_Mackerel.html

People should just take what they need, then stop fishing for them, same if only tiny Joeys are around.

[DarrenNiall]

Howth pier today, had a few really big mackerel on the float, up to 51cm and very thick. Great fun on light tackle fishing at low water, beside the lighthouse.

[eoghanb]

Any pics a 51cm mack is a monster

[DarrenNiall]

Any pics a 51cm mack is a monster

No pics unfortunately wish I had taken some, but was afraid I lose my phone between the rocks. Watched my knife slide away into the rocks when I was baiting the hook and decided against taking the phone out when I was there. Should have took a photo when I measured them at home, but felt a bit silly to be photographing mackerel. Upon reflection, I should have taken a photo, best mackerel I've ever caught. Was even stripping line off the reel, thought it was a bass LOL

[Chopin]

Any reports of shore mackerel in the Slade, Hook Head area and also in Dunmore East?

[guernica84]

51cm has to be a specimen, that's enormous.

[DarrenNiall]

51cm has to be a specimen, that's enormous.

Have to say I was laughing when I landed it, it was a ridiculous size for a mackerel (a girl on the pier asked if it was a sea bass , she looked a bit funny when she heard it was a mack) really made the return to fishing worthwhile. I must get an official measure and scales and keep them in my bag, start properly recording and photographing anything I catch

[donal domeney]

Worth a watch for reports.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthre ... 50&page=16

[booner]

51 cms wow!!...."Male and female Atlantic mackerel grow at about the same rate, reaching a maximum age of about 20 years and a maximum fork length of about 47 centimetres (19 in). Most Atlantic mackerel are sexually mature by the age of three years." YOU ARE THE SHORE CAUGHT RECORD HOLDER CONGRATULATIONS!!

[eddyfletch]

a few mackerel caught in dungarven last friday night ... very poor tho ...

[Stephen8wood]

Any pics a 51cm mack is a monster

No pics unfortunately wish I had taken some, but was afraid I lose my phone between the rocks. Watched my knife slide away into the rocks when I was baiting the hook and decided against taking the phone out when I was there. Should have took a photo when I measured them at home, but felt a bit silly to be photographing mackerel. Upon reflection, I should have taken a photo, best mackerel I've ever caught. Was even stripping line off the reel, thought it was a bass LOL

Are you sure it wasn't a dogfish??

[kieran]

He hooked a bonito!!!

Did take a monster long mackerel off tourmakeady point a few years back but doubt it was 51 cms...