mackerel fishing

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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