Mackerel Season

red sean · 15-08-2012 6:32pm

rubbledoubledo wrote: »

I would be putting them in a freezer.
Eating them 2 or 3 months time, when they will not be a mackerel in sight.

Just a question about tides.
Say in Cobh the tide comes in 8 in the morning, 8 at night.
Would it be the same time say in Ballycotton.
Do times change from time to time.

I am new to mack fishing.
Fished in Cobh a few weekends no luck. Others no luck either.
Thinking of going to Bally

Thgis might help. There may be a few minutes difference in a short bit of coastline.
http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/tides/?port=0064

Northclare · 15-08-2012 8:11pm

Chavways wrote: »

The fishing competition around Blackhead and Ballyreen in Clare was supposed to have been a disaster this week. Very few fish caught.Not even mackerel.

That trawler was near there last night, I was bodyboarding in Fanore and when.I was leaving I seen a trawler close to the shore.
It wasn't an angling boat definitely a trawler...

Sad isn't it

Birroc · 16-08-2012 9:56pm

Local fishmonger told me that the big trawlers and factory ships are targetting and destroying the mackeral stocks last couple of years. It would be quite shocking if the mackeral migration was stopped but he reckons it is quite possible unless something is done. It seems they keep the big mackeral but pulp the rest for other products.

cuddlycavies · 17-08-2012 8:43pm

Birroc wrote: »

Local fishmonger told me that the big trawlers and factory ships are targetting and destroying the mackeral stocks last couple of years. It would be quite shocking if the mackeral migration was stopped but he reckons it is quite possible unless something is done. It seems they keep the big mackeral but pulp the rest for other products.

nonse

haybob · 19-08-2012 2:12pm

Plenty of mackerel in North and west Clare was out 5 times over the last two weeks and got loads

derm58 · 20-08-2012 1:36pm

not much happening in Salthill last night. a few small mackerel and lots of (too) small pollock.

colrow · 20-08-2012 8:38pm

Caught 7 in 5 minutes off Beaganish Island, Valentia. at 4 tonight.

That was enough for tea, I could have caught bucket loads, but that would have been wasteful,

rubbledoubledo · 21-08-2012 1:16pm

Was in Ballycotton last night. I counted over 40 fishing there.
Most like myself catching nothing.
I just see 3 in one bucket and 3 or 4 in another that is all.
Very bad

Talking to a few locals, what is being caught, very small in size.
It is just hit and miss

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 21-08-2012 1:54pm

Its very hit and miss all over the country this year. I was out on a charter from rathmullen in donegal last sat, we had loads. The skipper was saying for a week or 2 in july there wee very few being caught. Its all down to the cold summer, the jet stream only moved over us 2 weeks ago, normally that happens in the spring. For most of the summer our winds came from the north, which is why it was so cold and wet.

red sean · 21-08-2012 2:01pm

Ya agree with you there. Sligo coast very bad all summer. This is coupled with the red tide. Lots being caught recently on the boats but nothing from the shore. Really dissappointing.

timconny · 21-08-2012 7:29pm

Anybody catching anything around Slade or Hook Head at the moment?

Rickwellwood · 22-08-2012 11:03am

Was at back of Spiddal pier for a few hours yesterday evening high tide at 8.30 pm very windy though caught nothing and only about 5 or 6 mackerel caught in total out of about 10 other fishermen around.

Birroc · 24-08-2012 3:42pm

Anyone catching in Spiddal or Salthill yet?

mattser · 24-08-2012 6:26pm

Was in Dunmore East ( flat rocks ) last Tuesday morning for tide turn 6.45-8.15. Two macks. Nobody else around. Elderly local man living beside rocks told me September is the new August for mackerel there.

Chavways · 25-08-2012 6:11pm

Northclare wrote: »

That trawler was near there last night, I was bodyboarding in Fanore and when.I was leaving I seen a trawler close to the shore.
It wasn't an angling boat definitely a trawler...

Sad isn't it

You bodyboard in Fanore aswell? Might see you down there. Its lonely out there being surrounded by loads of surfers.

stylie · 27-08-2012 4:29pm

I'm catching lots of small Mackeral from cliffs along the Cork coast with a few normal size mixed in.

jay tipperary · 28-08-2012 1:15am

Any macks been taking this year down tramore heading down there soon

wardie214 · 29-08-2012 5:46pm

jay tipperary wrote: »

Any macks been taking this year down tramore heading down there soon

I was in Dunmore East a few weeks ago and a local fisherman told me that the boats have had to go out much further to catch them. They reckon the runoff from the land has clouded the water close in so the macks can't see the spratts.

wayoutwest · 30-08-2012 7:58am

At Aughris Head (Sligo) yesterday evening. Great weather,high [4.0 M] tide and....... not a bite. This my third unsuccesfull mission in Sligo bay this season - next time I will be fishing from a boat to avoid anymore dissapointment. Does anyone know times/prices of boats going out of Mullough More harbour?

niall_b73 · 30-08-2012 8:57am

wayoutwest wrote: »

At Aughris Head (Sligo) yesterday evening. Great weather,high [4.0 M] tide and....... not a bite. This my third unsuccesfull mission in Sligo bay this season - next time I will be fishing from a boat to avoid anymore dissapointment. Does anyone know times/prices of boats going out of Mullough More harbour?

http://www.offshore.ie/fishing.htm

niall_b73

jay tipperary · 30-08-2012 8:58am

Its looking real bad for the macks if anyone catches from shore update please :-)

patspost · 03-09-2012 5:09pm

Was in Fanore yesterday eve, plenty fishing, but in 90 mins I only saw 1 lad reel in a few macks, about 5 on 2 lines of feathers.
Plenty of water there.

On another note its a shame that a small minority I'm sure of anglers leave a mess behind them, plenty of feather packaging etc.

Chavways · 03-09-2012 5:11pm

patspost wrote: »

Was in Fanore yesterday eve, plenty fishing, but in 90 mins I only saw 1 lad reel in a few macks, about 5 on 2 lines of feathers.
Plenty of water there.

On another note its a shame that a small minority I'm sure of anglers leave a mess behind them, plenty of feather packaging etc.

Ya, Blackhead is a disgrace with all the rubbish there.There's portable BBQ's, drink cans and loads of feather packaging everywhere.Its pretty disgusting realy.I don't know why the council don't do anything about it.

Katunga · 03-09-2012 5:18pm

Any Mackerel in Salthill yet? I was think about going some day soon.

AstraOwner · 05-09-2012 12:35pm

Wouldn't mind some mackeral to stock my deadbait freezer. If anyone can help it would be great.

haybob · 05-09-2012 1:00pm

patspost wrote: »

Was in Fanore yesterday eve, plenty fishing, but in 90 mins I only saw 1 lad reel in a few macks, about 5 on 2 lines of feathers.
Plenty of water there.

On another note its a shame that a small minority I'm sure of anglers leave a mess behind them, plenty of feather packaging etc.

I was there last night for a couple of hours and got 4, worst nights fishing this year.

I'd like to renforce the point that pats post makes about the rubbish and the small minority

dmc17 · 05-09-2012 5:07pm

AstraOwner wrote: »

Wouldn't mind some mackeral to stock my deadbait freezer. If anyone can help it would be great.

This might be of some help

redzerologhlen · 05-09-2012 11:54pm

haybob wrote: »

I was there last night for a couple of hours and got 4, worst nights fishing this year.

I'd like to renforce the point that pats post makes about the rubbish and the small minority

Is it gone that bad for macs there, I had the freezer full of them in may so have spent the summer chasing pollock since, I was going to go and try for a few pollock there last weekend but drove on, never before seen the place as busy!!

AstraOwner · 06-09-2012 12:45am

dmc17 wrote: »

This might be of some help

Unfortunately I'm a long way from the sea.

I know when fishing it's good it's very good. So maybe someone might be able to help me out.

mattser · 06-09-2012 9:36am

AstraOwner wrote: »

Unfortunately I'm a long way from the sea.

I know when fishing it's good it's very good. So maybe someone might be able to help me out.

Do you mean bring you to the sea, or bring the sea to you ?

AstraOwner · 06-09-2012 12:01pm

mattser wrote: »

Do you mean bring you to the sea, or bring the sea to you ?

The sea can stay where it is. I'm looking for a few mackeral.
Somebody who gets a good haul might like to help out and even earn a few bob.

Ronan cork · 06-09-2012 12:59pm

Caught 20+ maks and a couple of nice pollack in ballycotton Monday evening. Place was busy but everyone was hauling them in. Buddy also got a dozen big maks off the rocks in myrtleville last night so good fishing in cork at the moment

iLikeWaffles · 06-09-2012 4:46pm

Anybody catching anything east coast. anything???

Sparky84 · 06-09-2012 10:49pm

Plenty caught off Skerries pier last weekend.

Galway K9 · 07-09-2012 9:41pm

Anyone know why the macks are so small this year? got a few decent sized off galway docks but loads small which i threw back in.

uvox · 08-09-2012 11:11am

Slade on the Hook is fishing well for macks.

Bobby Baccala · 09-09-2012 12:26am

Galway K9 wrote: »

Anyone know why the macks are so small this year? got a few decent sized off galway docks but loads small which i threw back in.

what me and the oul lad reckon is that all the bigger ones are being caught in the nets up north by foreign boats before they even get down here and the smaller ones are making it through the nets.

Just a theory.

Birroc · 09-09-2012 12:36pm

Talked to fishermen about the mackerel stocks. They are simply being overfished. The factory ships are grabbing the shoals. Most are mulched for other products (agricultural mainly) but the large ones are kept for consumers. The mackerel migration that we know today may soon be a thing of the past unless something is done.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 10-09-2012 10:36am

The reason there are few mackeral this year and that they are small is mainly because of the weather. The jet stream spent most of the summer over europe, not over ireland, which meant for most of the summer out prevailing wind came from the north. without the heat of the south westerly, there is less plankton in the water. Mackerel feed on plankton, so less plankton, less mackerel.

red sean · 10-09-2012 12:05pm

I agree with the above post. I spoke to a marine biologist about it recently and he said the same. The northern part of the atlantic coast fared worse this year and he said it was partly due to red tide but mainly due to the jet stream.

jay tipperary · 11-09-2012 8:44am

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Galway K9 wrote: »

Anyone know why the macks are so small this year? got a few decent sized off galway docks but loads small which i threw back in.

what me and the oul lad reckon is that all the bigger ones are being caught in the nets up north by foreign boats before they even get down here and the smaller ones are making it through the nets.

Just a theory.

Its a good theory

chickey · 17-09-2012 12:26am

Youghal full of mackerel this evening, everyone pulling them in from quay, lot of them small

dermo909 · 18-09-2012 10:31am

Got a few off the flat rocks in Dunmore East last night at high tide. Jet black feathers and red ones with luminous squid heads worked best.

realrebel · 18-09-2012 6:35pm

been getting loads of mackerel and seatrout in the last week inside cork harbour good fishing there on the bigger tides

rubbledoubledo · 19-09-2012 3:43pm

Is it around where the boats are off loaded

EamonnX1 · 20-09-2012 1:36am

Has anyone caught mackerel this year (2012) from the shores in the Cork Harbor or East Cork, West Waterford regions? Visited some reliable marks (from past years) without a sign.

realrebel · 20-09-2012 1:20pm

EamonnX1 wrote: »

Has anyone caught mackerel this year (2012) from the shores in the Cork Harbor or East Cork, West Waterford regions? Visited some reliable marks (from past years) without a sign.

Lots of mackerel around in cork harbour in the last week or so I heard there were loads in youghal too eamonn
I got at least 20 every night I've been out releasing about 90% of them great crack on light gear

rubbledoubledo · 20-09-2012 1:54pm

Would sea trout take feathers, same as macks would

realrebel · 20-09-2012 6:21pm

rubbledoubledo wrote: »

Would sea trout take feathers, same as macks would

I wouldn't think you would get many if any on feathers but small dexter wedges work for the trout and krills

jorb · 04-09-2013 2:21am

Try Mornington, been fishing there every year for 10 years, been a little quiet this year but then again i haven't fished it much, apart from sea trout fishing, Almost as many Macks as Clougher, less anglers, safer, quieter and you'll catch Pollack to about 2lb and possibly beyond. Great bass fishing from both sides.. Seriously underrated venue!

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