Mackerel in Glaway

lmtduffy

any one know if there in claddagh yet?

JohnCleary

Yeah but why catch fish in crap infested water? Just go out to Salthill, at least the water is cleaner out there

gaeilgegrinds

Farther west has lovely fish.

Fey!

Nothing wrong with the mackeral from Nimmos Pier.

But of course, no thread about anything can go by without a negative JC comment...

EDIT: Yes, they're in and biting!!!

JohnCleary

Fey! wrote:

Nothing wrong with the mackeral from Nimmos Pier.

But of course, no thread about anything can go by without a negative JC comment...

EDIT: Yes, they're in and biting!!!

Ah would ya be quiet, I was only asking

I have to dip my hands in the surrounding water a lot to pick up ropes etc. and tbh the last thing i'd want is to be eating fish from there. I know it has no bearing on the fish meat but still, ewww

Fey ye fecker I was advising him to go out Salthill and catch fish where the water is cleaner - What's so neg about that?

Fey!

Sorry, JC; a lot of your posts recently read as being negative.

Fishing of Nimmos Pier is, IMO, a much nicer experience than further out in Salthill. That's mainly due to the number of people who go to the two areas.

Also, the water at the end of the pier isn't that bad right now. Do you remember it 10 years ago?

It's a shame that a lot of the people who drink while they fish don't bring their bottles/cans/bags/rubbish away with them, or that there's no bin down there.

gaeilgegrinds

Most fish who are healthy will not come that near the shore, fact. So the farther west you go the better. Not saying there is anything wrong with the fish from Nimmo's, just that one could probably do better.

Zzippy

gaeilgegrinds wrote:

Most fish who are healthy will not come that near the shore, fact.

Huh?
Mackerel at this time of year are hunting sprat and drive them inshore, trap them against the rocks and gorge themselves. The mackerel at Nimmos are just as healthy as the ones at Salthill, the shoals move along the coast so the mackerel you get today in Nimmos could be in Salthill tomorrow.
No difference at all.

padi89

JohnCleary wrote:

I have to dip my hands in the surrounding water a lot to pick up ropes etc. and tbh the last thing i'd want is to be eating fish from there. I know it has no bearing on the fish meat but still, ewww

John in all fairness id be be more worried about this
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055126103
than eating a mackerel caught around Nimmos.

JohnCleary

padi89 wrote:

John in all fairness id be be more worried about this
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055126103
than eating a mackerel caught around Nimmos.

JohnCleary

Fey! wrote:

Sorry, JC; a lot of your posts recently read as being negative.

Fishing of Nimmos Pier is, IMO, a much nicer experience than further out in Salthill. That's mainly due to the number of people who go to the two areas.

Also, the water at the end of the pier isn't that bad right now. Do you remember it 10 years ago?

It's a shame that a lot of the people who drink while they fish don't bring their bottles/cans/bags/rubbish away with them, or that there's no bin down there.

Fey - Nagative? Meh, each to their own, I wouldn't be one to lose sleep over it tbh

I agree the setting/surrounding is much nicer, but the water there is still polluted, even if the water quality has much improved in the past 10 years, it's still polluted. Nothing 'wrong' with fishing there, I just wouldn't... just like you prefer fishing at Nimmo's, it's opinion

Still, at least ye're not fishing INSIDE the dock gates. Yes, i've seen people fishing INSIDE the dock gates... when the locl gates are closed... WHY anyone would do that just baffles me. Bad enough the water outside the gates, but the static, dead, utterly manky water inside there is, uh, mank... Don't think anything could even survive in there for lone

gaeilgegrinds

Some people are negative, some positive! Each to their own!

Fey!

You're right about inside the gates; I've seen a LOT of dead stuff floating about in there!!!

Does anyone remember the story about the gates being jammed open years ago, and when they checked it out it turned out to be a car wedged in there; the water in the docks was so dirty that nobody had spotted it in the 6 months it had been in there!!! Seemingly it had been stolen from a local garage.

TerrorFirmer

Fey! wrote:

You're right about inside the gates; I've seen a LOT of dead stuff floating about in there!!!

Does anyone remember the story about the gates being jammed open years ago, and when they checked it out it turned out to be a car wedged in there; the water in the docks was so dirty that nobody had spotted it in the 6 months it had been in there!!! Seemingly it had been stolen from a local garage.

stevecrow74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKq54DkzhYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhfl6chN30


need i say more..

JohnCleary

stevecrow74 wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKq54DkzhYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhfl6chN30


need i say more..

Christ pay me 100eur + fuel + beer and i'll charter out my boat for the day, price includes skipper and crew! No more crowd's ... twice as good as no more nails... FACT!

stevecrow74

JohnCleary wrote:

Christ pay me 100eur + fuel + beer and i'll charter out my boat for the day, price includes skipper and crew! No more crowd's ... twice as good as no more nails... FACT!

all i have to say to that is.. insurance..skipper licence, licence to carry passengers, vhf radio coarse, navigation coarse.. and at E100..bugger that, i'll go to spiddle and charter a boat and bring my own beer

JohnCleary

stevecrow74 wrote:

all i have to say to that is.. insurance..skipper licence, licence to carry passengers, vhf radio coarse, navigation coarse.. and at E100..bugger that, i'll go to spiddle and charter a boat and bring my own beer

It was a joke :rolleyes:

All i'm missing from that list is insurance, probably the most important part really Well, i'm insured (Although not a requirment on boats), but just not to carry passengers COMMERCIALLY

-Edit- Just out of curiousity, how much on average does it cost to charter a boat for a day? There's a lovely one down the docks, Tarera Queen I think, someone told me it was 500eur a day eek...

stevecrow74

JohnCleary wrote:

-Edit- Just out of curiousity, how much on average does it cost to charter a boat for a day? There's a lovely one down the docks, Tarera Queen I think, someone told me it was 500eur a day eek...

aye 500 per day sounds right... now split that between 10 of ye and its only 50quid for the day..
some charge per head from 55-60quid depending on numbers..

for the size of her though she isn't as stable as she looks.. seen her bounce around in force 5 weather(seems to be heavy at the bow too)
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this is what my freezer looks like after a session of macky bashing
went out this evening with the fly rod.. great fun, was still catching still 11:30pm...

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/7909/11082007jl0.jpg