mackerel fishing

ryankmufc · 16-08-2010 10:58pm

June/July onwards around Dun Laoghaire.

Plenty of Mackerel around this time of year, caught 6 myself in DL couple of weeks ago

freekhead · 17-08-2010 12:23pm

was over in Clogherhead on sunday evening caught 12 in about an hour and a half off the pier. But the seals are taking alot on people luckily i lost none to them this time. Im heading down to Courtown in Wexford today to do a spot of Bass fishing ill post with an update when i get back

jimi_t2 · 17-08-2010 4:39pm

Got 60 odd there on Sunday but the sizes are appalling - kept maybe 15-20 and even then they were on the suggy side. Inundated with small black pollock to the point where we were hooking 6 at a time every time we dropped, got a few 8-10lb brown pollock as well thankfully

Kippure · 17-08-2010 4:53pm

jimi_t2 wrote: »

Got 60 odd there on Sunday but the sizes are appalling - kept maybe 15-20 and even then they were on the suggy side. Inundated with small black pollock to the point where we were hooking 6 at a time every time we dropped, got a few 8-10lb brown pollock as well thankfully

Where did you catch them?

jimi_t2 · 18-08-2010 2:13pm

Kippure wrote: »

Where did you catch them?

Boat fishing off the south coast of Kerry

ManwitaPlan · 20-08-2010 10:37am

Anything being caught in Howth?

Wheres the best place in Howth to fish for them?

ryankmufc · 20-08-2010 6:27pm

Does anyone know any information about mackerel?

For example do they swim close to surface or low,
Close to shore or not,
Whens the est time of day to catch them,
What colour feathers work well etc.

Let me know..

pappyodaniel · 20-08-2010 6:41pm

ryankmufc wrote: »

Does anyone know any information about mackerel?

For example do they swim close to surface or low,
Close to shore or not,
Whens the est time of day to catch them,
What colour feathers work well etc.

Let me know..

I usually go to West Clare to a couple of places, Bridges of Ross and Dunlicky. I cast off the cliffs with about 5 feathers and a heavy lead weight. When there's plenty of them you be hooking them up from their belly at times! but it doesn't matter what colour. Hard work from the cliffs though.

jimi_t2 · 21-08-2010 9:46pm

ryankmufc wrote: »

Does anyone know any information about mackerel?

For example do they swim close to surface or low,
Close to shore or not,
Whens the est time of day to catch them,
What colour feathers work well etc.

Let me know..

Close to the surface, less risk of snagging pollack as well if you fish higher. Close to the shore, cliffs etc... are great. Turn of high tide in the evening is ideal, Green feathers I find work best but they'll go for bare hooks if they're going. Strangely enough, mackerel strips work fantastically as well.

elius · 24-08-2010 2:21am

When does Mack's season tail off might go for one last go keep the frezzer full for the winter...

Newtown90 · 24-08-2010 10:07am

Doesn't stop til around mid september ususally!

skipz · 24-08-2010 11:10am

It didnt stop here in Clogherhead until after October last year.Id say its the same as this year, your best chance is a few hundred metres off shore on a boat.

goods · 26-08-2010 4:20pm

Loads caught off the prom in salthill yesterday evening,. almost jumping out of the water

Caribs · 27-08-2010 11:32am

Was at the back of Spiddal pier last night and there was nothing doing. Saw one or two being caught but nothing substantial. Had heard the shoals had been in the previous two nights.

Maybe they've headed further inshore to the prom - doh..!!!

Dr.Millah · 27-08-2010 10:06pm

Out 3 times this week to Monkstown Cork and not a bite any night. Using feathers, spinners etc. Nobody seems to be getting anything down there.

Newtown90 · 27-08-2010 10:14pm

Tried Tarbert, Glin and Kilteary Piers on the Shannon Estuary tonight!!

Nothing doing =(

Really depressing!!

rushnaldo · 28-08-2010 10:28pm

I must say i find it comical that a thread on mackerel fishing is one of the busiest threads in the angling forum. Most anglers would consider mackerel fishing as "just getting bait". No skill involved, no set place or ground just lanch anx reel like mad

Cork24 · 28-08-2010 11:56pm

well Bud for lake fishing you can cast out at any lake. and be in a 50/50 chance.

were Mackerel you need tide times, and just pour luck. at the end of the day the Mackerel are getting low as session come and go.

Newtown90 · 29-08-2010 9:10am

Ya mackeral fishing is fun!!

I know a fair few that just go after these, and its basically for the craic!!

You meet some gas men on the piers, etc...

Tried river and lake fishing for a few years myself and got sick of it!!...

Plus fillet the mackeral, put them in the freezer and you got dinner for a few days a year!

rushnaldo · 29-08-2010 6:44pm

Yes i used to find it fun fishing mackerel down the pier in Killybegs when i was about ten years old sitting on the bollard all day trying hawk eyes and feathers and the way too expensive lures and spinners and even the most enjoyable way of mackerel bait to catch mackerel was a great buzz but then the Western Endeavour and the Atlantic Challenge would come in the bay with four thousand tonnes of mackerel between the two of them and start pumping them out into bins beside me and it would sicken my happiness to be fair lol

Doodee · 05-09-2010 5:42pm

Glenviewjf wrote: »

Doesn't stop til around mid september ususally!

I'm only just after grabbing my rod from home in the west. Still work heading out to DL or other parts on the east coast to catch some?

Newtown90 · 05-09-2010 5:45pm

Yup still worth a try id sat:)

redsteveireland · 05-09-2010 11:03pm

Glenviewjf wrote: »

Plus fillet the mackeral, put them in the freezer and you got dinner for a few days a year!

Never fillet a Mackeral before you freeze it. Always freeze them as soon as possible and whole.

rushnaldo · 06-09-2010 10:00am

I dont get that? I work with mackerel and they are always filleted and then blast frozen. Blast freezers are the only way to freeze them whole because if you put a whole mack into a house freezer what happens is that the outside of him freezes first and the centre doesnt freeze right and it rots from the centre

redsteveireland wrote: »

Never fillet a Mackeral before you freeze it. Always freeze them as soon as possible and whole.

Newtown90 · 06-09-2010 10:46am

rushnaldo wrote: »

I dont get that? I work with mackerel and they are always filleted and then blast frozen. Blast freezers are the only way to freeze them whole because if you put a whole mack into a house freezer what happens is that the outside of him freezes first and the centre doesnt freeze right and it rots from the centre

I have always filleted my fish before freezing, nothing has ever happened to me and i will not stop my practise... Plus it saves space in my freezer!

rushnaldo · 06-09-2010 11:29am

Thats exactly what im saying yes. Unless you have a high powered blast freezer at home lol then you have to fillet them before freezing

stylie · 07-09-2010 5:04pm

Always clean your fish out as soon as you can, preferably in the salt water.

I would never freeze anyfish whole that wasnt intended for bait

Ilyushin76 · 07-09-2010 8:59pm

Had a bad mackerel fishing season so far.Lost alot of fish and broke my reel when I tried to land a full trace of 3.Hopefully I will be able to get a new reel before the season is over.

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