SHORE MACKEREL REPORTS 2016

Nothing at West Clare. Tried 5 different marks over both tides yesterday.

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a few mack caught in kinsale of the rocks

a few macks of rocks in kinsale

Surprisingly no one is reporting on these for this year... I have seen quite a lot of Macks being caught on shore but no one is reporting here...

Went out to Dillons on Saturday for half an hour in the evening. Nothing to report.

Fished various marks around Burtonport / Cruit Island / Termon / St Johns Point in Donegal- no sign of them, not one !

Culoo rock, Valencia island on Monday plenty of mackerel. The right hand side of Kells bay yesterday had about a dozen there.

Fished slade the other day, not a tap

few macks in cobh

Fished location in waterford 32 mackeral in a hour between two of us , stocking up the bait freezer


alot of joeys tho

a few showing around north clare now - plenty of bashers showing up also - sure sign the numbers are thickening up

a few in wicklow got 3 on pier on monday evening

one mack off greystones beach this evening

few macks in cobh

heaps of mackeral in youghal area even going up past the abbey

macks have disapeared in wicklow

9 mackerel in 2 hours around the Hook, often more than one fish on the line, plenty of them being caught by others

Are they still about in Youghal-I was going to take a run over tomorrow for them

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Had a few off Dun Laoghaire west pier this evening. Also seen about twenty being caught over 3 hours on the falling tide.

Youghal yesterday evening started off at the carpets ,no fish being caught and hauling in weed every cast. Gave it about half an hour before we went for a move. Was passing by the little mooring basin at Harvey's Apartments and saw a lot of activity on the surface. Looked in and there were loads and loads of mackerel chasing and devouring tiny silver fry in only a couple of feet of water- they were making a serious commotion- I thought it was going to be time to bag up.


Dropped in the feathers (very small silver ones) and herself was jigging a small silver metal but the macks were completely fixated on gorging themselves on the fry - they just had no interest. The speed at which they move when hunting is quite a sight. After a while they had either eaten all the fry or gotten full and the shoals were just cruising around. At this stage we were able to tempt the very odd fish on the feathers and metal but not many- we got half a dozen in about 40 minutes. The basin was full of people at this stage but no one was getting many.

When I gutted them at home, I could see where the phrase "full to the gills" comes from. The fishes stomachs and throats were full up with fry right up to the mouth. It's no wonder they had no interest in the artificals- its actually a miracle they could swim at all they were so full.