Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Caught hundreds today at howth at the back of irelands eye. And also had a seal. We got hounded by the seals. But still managed a few hundred between 3 of us in 4 hours

what are you going to do with hundreds of them

Could not agree more. Sheer greed.
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i had 70 in the boat on tuesday 15th october and i had about 30 yesterday 17th lots of joeys in the mix returned dozens of them just by shaking them off the hooks, if you can get out and bag up before they are gone for another year

Caught hundreds today at howth at the back of irelands eye. And also had a seal. We got hounded by the seals. But still managed a few hundred between 3 of us in 4 hours

what are you going to do with hundreds of them

Could not agree more. Sheer greed.
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I released most of the fish alive lads, sorry my bad I should of mentioned that when putting up the report. I kept about 30 fish for dinner and bait for the winter. And I agree it is sheer greed to keep that many fish , but I did let most of them go so I don't think 30 fish is greedy.

Caught hundreds today at howth at the back of irelands eye. And also had a seal. We got hounded by the seals. But still managed a few hundred between 3 of us in 4 hours

what are you going to do with hundreds of them

Could not agree more. Sheer greed.
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I released most of the fish alive lads, sorry my bad I should of mentioned that when putting up the report. I kept about 30 fish for dinner and bait for the winter. And I agree it is sheer greed to keep that many fish , but I did let most of them go so I don't think 30 fish is greedy.

nothing wrong with keeping any or all of the fish you caught i was only wondering what would you do with so many all at once, no good stuffing the freezer all at the one time it just dont let them freeze quick enough, little and often is the way to do it, get back out for another 30 while they are still there

JOHN1 I'd love to get back out for more but on the way home from that trip the wheel off the trailer came off and followed me down the m50. So I've to wait till I get that fixed.i think it will be next year before I catch another mackeral on my boat. I think it's shore angling for me for the next few months now ....lol

JOHN1 I'd love to get back out for more but on the way home from that trip the wheel off the trailer came off and followed me down the m50. So I've to wait till I get that fixed.i think it will be next year before I catch another mackeral on my boat. I think it's shore angling for me for the next few months now ....lol

i hope you get trailer sorted out soon enough.

I was out on friday 1/11/13 and still plenty of macks about two of us had about 70/80 we kept around 40 of the better ones

I released most of the fish alive lads.

Think I read somewhere that macks are particularly thin-skinned and dont survive any kind of handling, except maybe shaking them off the hook, and even then. Nowadays I prefer to fish them with a single lure and light gear and stop once the bait/dinner quota is reached. Just my personal thing - measured against massive commercial slaughter, anything we do either way is just a p*ss in the ocean.