Mega Mackerel thread 2018 - reports, queries and chat

pnpweirdo

Hi i was wondering if anyone could tell me what time of the year do the mackerel arrive to our shores. Il be fishing around west clare. I need to taste a freshly caught mackerel on my lips. Thanks.

MOD. That time of the year again so existing threads merged and all fishy talk regarding mackerel in this thread place. Happy mackerel bashing

redzerologhlen

pnpweirdo wrote: »

Hi i was wondering if anyone could tell me what time of the year do the mackerel arrive to our shores. Il be fishing around west clare. I need to taste a freshly caught mackerel on my lips. Thanks.

They are usually here around the start of may, Castle Point/Dunlickey is one of the earliest spots in Clare for them but barring that you have a suicide wish I wouldnt go near it.

pnpweirdo

redzerologhlen wrote: »

They are usually here around the start of may, Castle Point/Dunlickey is one of the earliest spots in Clare for them but barring that you have a suicide wish I wouldnt go near it.

I dont really have a head for heights, I went down to Dunlickey a few years back and it scared the living day lights out of me, Not only that my gutt didnt even reach the sea.:eek:

Auldloon

If you don't have a head for heights then fishing off the rocks in west Clare is prob not for you! Wait til they are in and get someone to take you out in a boat.

Mackyboy1

Hi,
It shouldn't be too long now, because I was fishing on a boat from Sligo at the weekend. We caught a lot of Mackerel, we caught coal fish, pollock up to 8lb and would you believe it, herring (about 20 of them). We weren't fishing that far from the shore. So maybe it will be sooner than you think, fingers crossed.

MB

lewishamilton

excellent stuff any been caught in spiddal

Brian.D

Mackyboy1 wrote: »

Hi,
It shouldn't be too long now, because I was fishing on a boat from Sligo at the weekend. We caught a lot of Mackerel, we caught coal fish, pollock up to 8lb and would you believe it, herring (about 20 of them). We weren't fishing that far from the shore. So maybe it will be sooner than you think, fingers crossed.

MB

Sound like a great session, what part of Sligo were ye fishing from

haybob

Been out in Quilty, Doolin and Fanore to NO success

redzerologhlen

haybob wrote: »

Been out in Quilty, Doolin and Fanore to NO success

There was full strings landed in black head yesterday I heard, I couldnt face the crowd there so took a quieter path in search of a few pollock.

Mackyboy1

Brian.D wrote: »

Sound like a great session, what part of Sligo were ye fishing from

Mullaghmore, and yes it was a great session, a friend of mine has a small boat that can fit only 4 people it's just perfect for that sort of fishing, but i will say, i went there 2 weeks before, and caught very little.
I also heard a trip from Galway went out in the bay there and had a great catch. It looks like to me if you can get out on a boat your will catch anywhere.
or just wait a few weeks and maybe the mackerel will be in.

MB

haybob

redzerologhlen wrote: »

There was full strings landed in black head yesterday I heard, I couldnt face the crowd there so took a quieter path in search of a few pollock.

I will try again during the week but had silver rigs, cloured feathers, black feathers and few other things but nothing

lewishamilton

any macs down the docs yet

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

lewishamilton wrote: »

any macs down the docs yet

Which docks?

pnpweirdo

Plenty of nacs down the doc's alright.

lewishamilton

Mekhi Purple Rigging wrote: »

Which docks?

Galway docs

lewishamilton

Bump!!

dmc17

lewishamilton wrote: »

Bump!!

Did you get one?

danbrosnan

Some mackerel being reported from around fenit pier....

lewishamilton

i will be going out to spiddal on wednesday,i will report back!!

ferrete

mackerl caught at malin pier around 30 landed this evening

TroutMask

Been fishing a lot at Derrybeg off the rocks. No mackerel there yet. Steady stream of coalfish and pollack though - I've been grilling the evening's catch most nights

lewishamilton

i caught 6 mackerel yesterday in Galway Harbour and fairly big aswell ;)

Caribs

lewishamilton wrote: »

i caught 6 mackerel yesterday in Galway Harbour and fairly big aswell ;)

Haven't seen the usual hoards along the prom yet but were there many fish about?

Did you head out Spiddal way as love the fishing out there.

lewishamilton

Caribs wrote: »

Haven't seen the usual hoards along the prom yet but were there many fish about?

Did you head out Spiddal way as love the fishing out there.

there's a few there alrite and big aswell,not many fishing but that's good for the space,haven't been out in spiddal yet but ya are guaranteed better fishing there

ozzie3032

lewishamilton wrote: »

there's a few there alrite and big aswell,not many fishing but that's good for the space,haven't been out in spiddal yet but ya are guaranteed better fishing there

Hi i know im a bit away from you but was out on the kayak in Tramore (cty Waterford) on weds evening caught 4 mackerel and 22 pollock, took a couple of nice pollock and released the rest.
Going out near dungarvan on sunday coming will report back if anything caught


HAPPY FISHING

madchild

late august/September is the best month for it i caught over 100 in an hour at salthill a couple of years back the local lads would tell ya the same best fished on a high tide with a full moon and fish an hour before dark that,s all the advice i can give ya so get a tide time table and start planning

harry Bailey esq

for the past two years august seems to be the best month for macks were we fished,quilty

ozzie3032

Just a message to ALL anglers fishing for mackarel .

Only take what mackarel your going to eat, who needs 70 80 they are nice but come on who can eat and enjoy that many fish ??

MOST IMPORTANTLY

When you catch a mackarel and decide ah its too small are you dont want it (NEVER TOUCH THE MACKAREL WITH YOUR HANDS) :eek:

The enzimes/oil on our skin damages the fishes skin, it will swim off and look normal but the fishes skin continues to break down and it will die within 24-48hrs after being released.:mad:

Either hold the hook and shake the mackarel off the feather or take a towel with you WET THE TOWEL and hold the mackarel in the WET towel this way the fish will survive when released

redzerologhlen

ozzie3032 wrote: »

Just a message to ALL anglers fishing for mackarel .

Only take what mackarel your going to eat, who needs 70 80 they are nice but come on who can eat and enjoy that many fish ??

MOST IMPORTANTLY

When you catch a mackarel and decide ah its too small are you dont want it (NEVER TOUCH THE MACKAREL WITH YOUR HANDS) :eek:

The enzimes/oil on our skin damages the fishes skin, it will swim off and look normal but the fishes skin continues to break down and it will die within 24-48hrs after being released.:mad:

Either hold the hook and shake the mackarel off the feather or take a towel with you WET THE TOWEL and hold the mackarel in the WET towel this way the fish will survive when released

I put about 200 into the freezer last year and used them all for bait, better than the frozen muck you buy tbh.

madchild

ozzie3032 wrote: »

Just a message to ALL anglers fishing for mackarel .

Only take what mackarel your going to eat, who needs 70 80 they are nice but come on who can eat and enjoy that many fish ?

i ate about ten of them and i gave the rest to some friends and neighbours and they were very grateful

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

madchild wrote: »

i ate about ten of them and i gave the rest to some friends and neighbours and they were very grateful

Totally agree. What I don't eat (and I hardly ever eat any) go to very grateful family and friends. It is also great to stock the freezer with bait.

madchild

Mekhi Purple Rigging wrote: »

Totally agree. What I don't eat (and I hardly ever eat any) go to very grateful family and friends. It is also great to stock the freezer with bait.

This is it every man to his own i,m absolutely sick to the teeth of people pushin their opinions and views on other people and makin out that if ya kill a few fish your some sort of master criminal ffs:rolleyes:

red sean

madchild wrote: »

This is it every man to his own i,m absolutely sick to the teeth of people pushin their opinions and views on other people and makin out that if ya kill a few fish your some sort of master criminal ffs:rolleyes:

Maybe I'm wrong, but thats not what I read into the post. I understood the poster was talking about wasting fish and killing fish unnecessarily.
I've seen people over the years bagging up to 100 macks and more and then finding that there was as many people giving away fish as there was fish!
But maybe I'm wrong!

madchild

Any sign of mackerel on the west coast lads?

redzerologhlen

madchild wrote: »

Any sign of mackerel on the west coast lads?

Have had a few sporadically but not many to be honest. They are no sure thing at the moment.

domcq

I was out last Saturday on the Kiwi Girl (boat) for two hours and caught quite a few mackerel and some Pollack on feathers. I'm always surprised by how tasty fresh mackerel are.

danbrosnan

domcq wrote: »

I was out last Saturday on the Kiwi Girl (boat) for two hours and caught quite a few mackerel and some Pollack on feathers. I'm always surprised by how tasty fresh mackerel are.

Macks been caught off fenit peir near Tralee everyday... Today small tope were been caught from the peir... Also undulates being caught...

downwiththatsor

6 of us fished from a boat in Dingle Bay yesterday for 6 hours and in total caught one mackerel in total (plenty of pollack, ling, coalie, one gurnard, a few cod, pouting, wrasse, octopus also)

"Dolphin Soup" was mentioned to me by a whale watcher over the past few days in the bay so they may have chased away or gobbled down any around the Bay.

Hugof1234

are the mackerel in yet around Sligo and if so where are they being caught

red sean

Too early and been too cold so far. Possibly be June, depending on the intervening weather.

Ultimate Seduction

Late august/September is best. They arriving later and in less numbers year on year

beefburrito

The Pollock are taking bass lures in Clare at the moment....

Probably a few obscure macs following them...

malinheader

Just chatting to a local man today.Told me he had a good few decent mackerel down at mount Charles pier in Donegal on Tuesday night.

kildare lad

Its a wonder how any mackeral get through, all them trawlers raping our seas.

Ultimate Seduction

kildare lad wrote: »

Its a wonder how any mackeral get through, all them trawlers raping our seas.

It's disgusting. Same with salmon. But the man with a rod and line gets the blame

malinheader

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

It's disgusting. Same with salmon. But the man with a rod and line gets the blame

Sorry lads but it was the drift net fishermen around our coasts who always got the blame for the decreasing numbers of salmon and subsiquently had to deal with a big loss to there livelihoods when it was banned. And since the banning of all drift netting which had a very damaging effect on a lot of small coastal communities the numbers of salmon have been on a drastic decrease ever since.

Marcmc

Has anyone tried for mackerel on the east cost yet I know it's early but with warm weather there might be a few around

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Every year someone asks me this. My stock answer is: Go and have a try and let us know. Someone has to be first and it's still a good day out. Hit the usual spots and report back.

Marcmc

Mekhi Purple Rigging wrote: »

Every year someone asks me this. My stock answer is: Go and have a try and let us know. Someone has to be first and it's still a good day out. Hit the usual spots and report back.

Very true now I need to find the time

robbie67

I went out yesterday afternoon from Dun Laoghaire on a boat only 1 mackerel caught ,a few sprat in the water not many though

gumbo1

Reports of macks showing in howth!