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Postby blackiemc » Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:46 pm

Hello all,
Here's the one for the boatmen, hope to be out in April with the help of Kevin Murphy, Bella Vista, 8 of us (from 5 counties + across the water) looking forward to at day out from Cobh, so I'll be contributing at least once to this thread in 2013 (with the help of God!) :D :D :D .

Some reasons why this is a good resource for this community of anglers:

1. Increase chances of catching nice dinner
2. Tempt you to try fishing for them with a fly rod or very light gear
3. Allow you to bring nippers along, they'll NEVER forget catching the first mack
4. If it works it might mean less time fishing for bait (if the bait is mack)
5. it might mean less need to haul in loads at a time for bait for the freezer during the season
6. Use the info to avoid dangerously packed venues (I have found the morning tide can be like a different planet, a quiet, safe one
above are the 'selfish' reasons, other reasons are:
7. If supported it could provide an annual 'database' on mack stocks, allowing rough comparison from year to year
8. Might cut down on the need to take extra macks in a session, which is good for the fish.

Please support it all through the season, and more important than reporting catches, please report blanks (as I am very well practised at).
Any confirmed information is going to be really useful to someone.

Thanks to all and tight lines!

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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby kieranring » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:56 am

Ya good idea
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby hugo » Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:19 am

Seems to me macks are getting smaller and smaller every season. Maybe adding some kind of size assessment to the reports would help us keep an eye on this?
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby number 4 » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:58 pm

Been so scarce down my way for the last couple of years, would be good to see if its my tactics or if they just aren't there:)
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby kerrywez » Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:24 pm

Was out from Cahirciveen, on board Fuego, see here http://www.kerryseaanglingcharters.com/ and one lad had 3 macks on the one drop, all were small though. The skipper, Des, said that there had been some caught the weekend before also. One guy also had 3 herring on the one drop.

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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby PaddyB » Mon May 13, 2013 2:08 pm

Loads of Mack outa Killybegs on Saturday, some really big ones at that!
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby PaddyB » Tue May 21, 2013 2:11 pm

Loads outa Culdaff on Sunday.
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby donal domeney » Tue May 21, 2013 5:59 pm

Sunday 19th.

Caught a dozen in about 15 minutes east of the bottle.
Shoaling at 140ft.
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby thescotsman » Wed May 22, 2013 12:10 am

donal domeney wrote:Sunday 19th.

Caught a dozen in about 15 minutes east of the bottle.
Shoaling at 140ft.


We got a half dozen down that direction too on Sunday afternoon Donal. Sporadic, and typically whilst dropping down after having giving up hope of catching any that day....reduced to a couple of launce and herring for bait till that point...
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby JimC » Wed May 22, 2013 8:44 am

Only one mackerel yesterday - a lonely big fella!
Tried the usual harbour areas and out off Trabolgan without success. The big one was caught on bait on a reef east of the smiths.
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby MS6964 » Wed May 22, 2013 3:10 pm

Caught one mackerel out of Youghal Sunday tried plenty different spots and fishing the flooding tide
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby Pat » Thu May 23, 2013 12:11 am

Jeez, they were going crazy out there today....

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?vi ... 8625226%22
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby Stephen8wood » Thu May 23, 2013 2:12 pm

It was like that in Bulloch Harbour all last year
List 2010. fish

List 2011: less fish

2012: less fish again,

2013: even less fish.
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby Higgy » Sat May 25, 2013 11:03 pm

Pat wrote:Jeez, they were going crazy out there today....

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?vi ... 8625226%22

If only, thats great :o
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby simplywabs » Sun May 26, 2013 2:12 pm

Higgy wrote:
Pat wrote:Jeez, they were going crazy out there today....

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?vi ... 8625226%22

If only, thats great :o



Wouldn't even chance those mackerels with those Bonito flying around.

What country was this video taken?
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby bpmurray » Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:22 pm

None around Carlingford-Dundalk Bay today. In fact, no fish to talk of - I think the new agreements in the EU have come too late for that area. The dredging for razorfish has left the bottom completely sterile,so there are no fish left anywhere in the region. I think we'll have to move the boats to the west coast.
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby rodey » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:14 pm

got 6 macs at bar bouy wexford today,
there on the way
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby henrykelly10 » Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:15 am

getting them in Ringsend

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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby hugo » Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:01 am

bpmurray wrote:None around Carlingford-Dundalk Bay today. In fact, no fish to talk of - I think the new agreements in the EU have come too late for that area. The dredging for razorfish has left the bottom completely sterile,so there are no fish left anywhere in the region. I think we'll have to move the boats to the west coast.

It's not much better over here at the moment, just the odd one, and in poor condition.
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Re: Boat Mackerel Reports '13 here...

Postby hugo » Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:16 pm

Update: More showing in Killala Bay today (Tues 4/6) but very small and outnumbered by swarms of juvenile pollack. Water temp just over 13C.
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