clifden area 10th august 2010

People:myself and some other fellow

Duration:1hr 30 mins

Tide:high 18.11 5.5m

Weather:lovely

Bait:feathers

Rigs:feathers

Results:myself 4 mackerel,some other fellow blank

Report:this was to be a shore report but ended up as a boat report,I headed to the local pier and set up,I had the bait on the hook and ready to cast out but saw a currach coming in and was waiting for him to pass in when he stopped and asked did i want to go out for a hour for the mackerel he said he saw gannets on the other side of the bay
a quick reload of the car and loaded a pocket full of feathers and lead
and we headed out,loads of mackerel breaking the surface and on the first drop of the lead had one mackerel things were looking good but all we could get were 4,loads of mackerel around but the mackerel were just swimming past the feathers

it was great to get out on the boat,a big thanks to the fellow who ever he was

was he playing a tinwhistle? it was probley the lonesome boatman looking for some company

Fair play to him that was a nice gesture

loads of mackerel breaking the surface and on the first drop of the lead had one mackerel things were looking good but all we could get were 4,loads of mackerel around but the mackerel were just swimming past the feathers

Strange result given the circumstances GF. Were there loads of sprat near the surface?

One hot summer many many years ago had a similar experience off Clare and also in a currach. Mackeral all round us but few takers, then about 100 yards away a pod of five or six orcas (killer whales) surfaced, blew briefly, and dived again. We reckoned the macks were too panicked in the circumstances to go for our lures. Maybe there were some big predators around your boat?

loads of mackerel breaking the surface and on the first drop of the lead had one mackerel things were looking good but all we could get were 4,loads of mackerel around but the mackerel were just swimming past the feathers

Strange result given the circumstances GF. Were there loads of sprat near the surface?

One hot summer many many years ago had a similar experience off Clare and also in a currach. Mackeral all round us but few takers, then about 100 yards away a pod of five or six orcas (killer whales) surfaced, blew briefly, and dived again. We reckoned the macks were too panicked in the circumstances to go for our lures. Maybe there were some big predators around your boat?

it was strange,didn't see any big fish break the surface and didn't see any sprats the only thing we saw were gannets but they were not diving