Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
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14 fishing Clogherhead 3 hours before, and 1 after, high tide this morning. Not a thing caught. Water was lifeless!
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
1 got in renville oranmore only fished a few casts 

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TARGETS 2013: A decent bass from north Clare and some decent pollack
Species 2012:18
SPECIES 2013: 5B rockling,3b rockling,LSD's,flounder,coalies,whiting,dab,turbot,conger,bull huss,thornback ray,bass,cuckoo wrasse,mackerel, launce, pollack,painted ray, ballan wrasse
TARGETS 2013: A decent bass from north Clare and some decent pollack
Species 2012:18
SPECIES 2013: 5B rockling,3b rockling,LSD's,flounder,coalies,whiting,dab,turbot,conger,bull huss,thornback ray,bass,cuckoo wrasse,mackerel, launce, pollack,painted ray, ballan wrasse
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
Got out last Saturday in tramore tide 3hrs into the drop 23 mackerel in 2 hrs. The mate got a few Sunday not sure how many, hopefully there starting to show now
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Any idea if they enter the Irish sea through the north as well as south - like the currents do before meeting near the isle of man?
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5 mackies yesterday morning in about half an hour, on a kilty before I had to head to work. Kinsale area. Caught just after top of the tide.
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2011 Species:
Coalie, Doggie, Bass, Ballan Wrasse, Flounder, Pollock, Mackerel, Launce
2012 Species:
Coalie, Doggie, Bass, Ballan Wrasse, Pollock, Mackerel, Launce
2013 Species:
Coalie, Pollock, Bass, Mackerel
2014 Species:
Launce, Pollock, Coalie, Bass, Cod, Mackerel, Whiting, Doggie, Conger
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2011 Species:
Coalie, Doggie, Bass, Ballan Wrasse, Flounder, Pollock, Mackerel, Launce
2012 Species:
Coalie, Doggie, Bass, Ballan Wrasse, Pollock, Mackerel, Launce
2013 Species:
Coalie, Pollock, Bass, Mackerel
2014 Species:
Launce, Pollock, Coalie, Bass, Cod, Mackerel, Whiting, Doggie, Conger
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
well lads mackeral are in and there solid atleast of kinsale me and a buddy reckon we hit the 200 mark 

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Watched 9/10 guys in tramore this evening for an hour or so, each and everyone of them blanked. Was talking to a chap there who got 2 on the high tide this morning and he said everyone else there at that stage blanked.
Was in Dunmore yesterday evening, herself was fishing for mackeral but just got 2 pollock, had 8 wrasse myself
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Was in Dunmore yesterday evening, herself was fishing for mackeral but just got 2 pollock, had 8 wrasse myself

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Fishing of a boat near carlisle pier tues night and had 17 mackies in about 2 hrs mostly small ones .
Catches for 2012: Pollock, Mackerel, Dogfish, Sea Trout, Ballen Wrasse
And more to come on the end of my line ............
And more to come on the end of my line ............
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Ballycotton pier this morning about a dozen fishing, i'd say about a hundred caught in 4 hours. Mainly by two lads on the end of the pier.Mostly small ones.
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
Rathmullan pier today loads of people feathering 7 caught between 9am and 4pm
Conor McDermott
TARGETS 2013: A decent bass from north Clare and some decent pollack
Species 2012:18
SPECIES 2013: 5B rockling,3b rockling,LSD's,flounder,coalies,whiting,dab,turbot,conger,bull huss,thornback ray,bass,cuckoo wrasse,mackerel, launce, pollack,painted ray, ballan wrasse
TARGETS 2013: A decent bass from north Clare and some decent pollack
Species 2012:18
SPECIES 2013: 5B rockling,3b rockling,LSD's,flounder,coalies,whiting,dab,turbot,conger,bull huss,thornback ray,bass,cuckoo wrasse,mackerel, launce, pollack,painted ray, ballan wrasse
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Cobh is stuffed with macks. Everyone fishing on the piers and quays filling their buckets to the brim.
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
any macks showing in dun laoghaire (east or west pier) ?
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1 in 3 hours in Dunmore this evening.
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
Hooked 1 today at Greystones, thought it was finally gonna be the first of the season but it fell off! Nothing after that! The wait continues..
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I gave them a good thinning down there tonight,Pat wrote:Cobh is stuffed with macks. Everyone fishing on the piers and quays filling their buckets to the brim.
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
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LOLdonal domeney wrote:I gave them a good thinning down there tonight,Pat wrote:Cobh is stuffed with macks. Everyone fishing on the piers and quays filling their buckets to the brim.

list 2013 (10) Ballan Wrasse, (17) Smooth Hounds (6lb, 2oz, best so far this year), (47) LSD, (2) shore Rockling, (1) Long spine scorpion, (9) flounder, (8) Dab (2)Bass (3) Mackerel (2) lance (2) Plaice (2) Pollock (1) whiting
List 2012: (83) Whitting, (2) Plaice, (20) 5 Beard Rockling, (3) Coalie, (1) 3 Beard Rockling PB 40cm, (8)Pouting, (1) poor cod, (49) LSD(PB: 3lb.2oz), (1) Shore Rockling, (2) Codling, (2) Long Spine Scorpion, (6) Pollock (25) flounder (b) (1) mackrel (1) Turbot PB19cm (10)dab (6) Smooth Hound (2) Twaite Shad, (2)Thornback Ray(PB: 4lb 5oz), (34) Mackrel (Shore), (35) Lance PB31cm, (1) pipe fish, (1)Bull Huss 3lb 150z, (1) Octopus (2)corkwing wrasse, (1) Dragonet
List 2011: 16 species (267 fish caught)
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List 2012: (83) Whitting, (2) Plaice, (20) 5 Beard Rockling, (3) Coalie, (1) 3 Beard Rockling PB 40cm, (8)Pouting, (1) poor cod, (49) LSD(PB: 3lb.2oz), (1) Shore Rockling, (2) Codling, (2) Long Spine Scorpion, (6) Pollock (25) flounder (b) (1) mackrel (1) Turbot PB19cm (10)dab (6) Smooth Hound (2) Twaite Shad, (2)Thornback Ray(PB: 4lb 5oz), (34) Mackrel (Shore), (35) Lance PB31cm, (1) pipe fish, (1)Bull Huss 3lb 150z, (1) Octopus (2)corkwing wrasse, (1) Dragonet
List 2011: 16 species (267 fish caught)
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
Heard dun laoighaire fished well the last few days
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Spent four hours trying for Mackerel yesterday off Devil's Rock in Howth, then another two hours off the West Pier, not a nibble. New to the sport, must be doing something wrong! 

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bluebeard wrote:Spent four hours trying for Mackerel yesterday off Devil's Rock in Howth, then another two hours off the West Pier, not a nibble. New to the sport, must be doing something wrong!
Was there anybody else fishing and if so how did they do?
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Re: Shore Mackerel Reports '13 here...
As many as you wanted in boatstrand tonight.
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