MACKEREL REPORTS BOAT 2018

that blackhead in clare or north coast?

Out today Kilmore quay no mackerel

Out on a comp on Sat stopped for a few dips out side the harbour on the way to the lings no mackerel caught.
Did run into them on the lings when we didn't need them had to move to get away from them.

Out yesterday for a few hours R&R had a set of bullseye rig out all day fishing at different depths not a sign of a mackerel

Fishing outside Carlingford Lough yesterday (Tuesday 26th June). Over 6 hrs with feathers constantly in water, only 1 mackerel which came from a popular tope mark (3 other boats there) and it came to a retrieved coalfish strip, not feathers.

Fished Monday June 25th nine miles south of Youghal Lighthouse caught a dozen mackerel very patchy equally the sea was flat calm with very little drift

black head kingsale cork I checked it tail fin online it was a basking shark the smallest id ever seen and the quickest moving one

Had markerel from the shore in Cobh last night so they are showing up in the harbour again

on kayaks in kingsale blanked on mackreal front plenty on gurnards and a few small lance

launched from cool mine beach no macks at all few small Pollock that's it

launched from dun laoghaire yesterday ,spent the whole day drifting from the harbour to around the islands only caught 2 about 2km further out very slow

Just over 100 mackerel caught yesterday to 2 rods in 4 hours just east of the Skeird Rocks in Connemara. No birds about and they were full of small sandeel and mixed with pollack (1-3lb).

Caz-Galway

30 off Irelands eye yesterday. 2 rods 2 hours....Needed for tope session Saturday.

About 70 drifting the back of the piers in dunlaoghaire

Had 150 off back of Ireland's eye last Sunday.

Had about 30 around Irelands Eye off Howth last week ...needed for bait for tope. Fished 3 hours yesterday same area and only had 2. Plenty of Porpoises around Howth yesterday and lots of lads fishing off rocks at Balscadden but no sign of macks being caught.

Loads of mack out from Roassaveal, close enough to the mainland - thinned out the closer you got to the islands. a shoal of big scad were hit also

Fished for shark over the weekend, and plenty of mackerel when we stopped off Aranmor, in the middle of Galway Bay. Oddly enough we were catching them at all depths, from around 15ft down to the bottom around 90ft.

40 reasonable size mackeral drifting a mile or so outside wicklow harbour on Wednesday evening

Plenty of joeys aswell and tortured by dogs