Boat Caught Mackerel Reports '12 here...

got 25 mackerel yesterday in youghal bay

Ballycastle (MAYO) area thick with macks yesterday (Weds May 30). Lot of smaller ones but some big fat lads too. They've also moved off the bottom to midwater. Almost back to summer pest levels......

had a few off Dalkey yesterday.viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39712

Had 9 heading out of Dun Laoghaire today.


Yappo

Three rods in and around Cork Harbour yesterday evening (1st June). 3 mackerel in singles, all taken on krill effect trace, none to silver paper, coloured feathers, black feathers.

Not about in numbers where we were. Lovely evening out there - thanks Dermot skipper out of Crosshaven

Blackie

Headed out for a couple of hours with her good self yesterday and we had 80 macks in a short amount of time off Dalkey
And we were only using 3 feathers each

first drop in cork harbour one big old mackerel... nothing else for the rest of the day
Taking slivers off it for the hokkai's as the missus wanted mack for tea

we had around 90 from Dalkey today between two of us, a fair few of them were joeys.

we had around 90 from Dalkey today between two of us, a fair few of them were joeys.

Nice dinner LOL

Caught plenty out of Carlingford on Sunday. Caught them from the Imogene buoy all the way back to Carlingford, as well as out by the Hellyhunter and the (now gone) Whistler. We weren't targeting them, just wanted a few for bait.

Got over 100 today at Dalkey between 3 of us that's bait and eating for us and friends sorted.
A lot of them were small enough.

Yappo

Still scarce in the South of Sligo bay . Mostly small shoals of small fish but did find some good sized macks hard on the bottom in 90 ft of water . Seems strange as they are nearly always between 10 and 35 ft .

Had loads last Sunday, half a mile north of Melmore. Stonking great bigs ones too. They must be patchy - we had no trouble at all finding them, another charter boat that came out after us took an hour to find enough for a day's bait.

Scarce and patchy in Donegal Bay last Sunday.

Scarce and patchy in Donegal Bay last Sunday.

And very small too! I've scaled down from the usual Hokkai's to much smaller rigs to get any.

Lots off Dunmore east yesterday half a box of good ones in half an hour

Plenty of mackerel outside Carlingford Lough today.

Fishing off westport yesterday got two tiny mackrel not a thing else about 8 boats knocking around and was talking to two crews who got nothing conditions were good and several different rigs used
I don't know what's going on

Fishing off westport yesterday got two tiny mackrel not a thing else about 8 boats knocking around and was talking to two crews who got nothing conditions were good and several different rigs used
I don't know what's going on

It might be this
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=40135

Youghal bay alive with them this year can't get to the bottom without catching a few