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Mackerel on the east coast (Mega mackerel merge!)

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    #62
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    What's with the arguments lads. Yas are only CODdin yourselves arguing.
    This isn't the PLAICE for it.


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    #63
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Tubbylad wrote: »
    Why didn't you just say you caught some at Balscaddan. In all my years fishing i have seen plenty of shoals with no catches. Don't be a smart kid either Paddy
    It don't suit ye. Take the tiny bit of critisism like a man and not a spoilt little brat
    Your comments are unbelievable and uncalled for. Thanks for the smarty pants wellcome also Paddy. I will now deactivate my account,for your pleasure, and go back to being a guest.


    Stop complaining and get on with things for god sake man.

    No one is asking or wishing you to go away.

    Sure you were wellcomed along by myself,as you just joined up and posted your 1st post here to me.

    If you want to take issue with that,then thats your own personal choice to do so.

    You are wellcome here and Ive no wish to see you go away.




    Enjoy your mackerel hunting.


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    #64
    paddy147
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    natdog wrote: »
    ahh poor thing.


    Sympathy vote perhaps??:pac:




    Right so,Im off out fishing for an hour or 2.

    Happy hunting everyone.


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    #65
    madchild
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭madchild


    I,ll wait till the full moon tis nearly there and fish a rising tide at dusk had my best mackerel fishing with that approach.


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    #66
    stylie
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    madchild wrote: »
    I,ll wait till the full moon tis nearly there and fish a rising tide at dusk had my best mackerel fishing with that approach.

    Is Mackeral fishing that bad around you that you have to wait for ideal conditions ?


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    #67
    madchild
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭madchild


    stylie wrote: »
    Is Mackeral fishing that bad around you that you have to wait for ideal conditions ?

    It is as i,m at least 1 hour and 20 mins from the coast i could try the local river but i don,t think there,s any mackerel in them:rolleyes:


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    #68
    Snowc
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    What's with the arguments lads. Yas are only CODdin yourselves arguing.
    This isn't the PLAICE for it.

    Thanks for making the fish names in capitals I wouldn't have spotted em otherswise:rolleyes:

    Was out today off galway full off sprat but no mackerel behind em.Very strange especially with the weather


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    #69
    exador
    Registered Users Posts: 661 ✭✭✭exador


    Looking for some advice.


    I have never done any sea fishing before. I have some freshwater tackle that I have used a good few times for PIKE e.t.c..I plan to head off over the next few weeks just to do some pier/rock sea fishing. If I catch anything at all I will be happy but just a bit of fun.

    Any advice on where to go within reasonable distance of Dublin and what gear do I need to get ? Lure or feathers ?

    Any advice appreciated

    Thanks


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    #70
    jwkbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭jwkbyrne


    except wrote: »
    Looking for some advice.


    I have never done any sea fishing before. I have some freshwater tackle that I have used a good few times for PIKE e.t.c..I plan to head off over the next few weeks just to do some pier/rock sea fishing. If I catch anything at all I will be happy but just a bit of fun.

    Any advice on where to go within reasonable distance of Dublin and what gear do I need to get ? Lure or feathers ?

    Any advice appreciated

    Thanks
    Go to Dillons park in Dalkey an fish off the main rock at the bottom of the steps on a rising tide with feathers, you can use fresh mackerel to catch smoothhound which generally show up in the evening, so id bring two rods if u can, and grounding one and feather the other, I even got a tope there once but got no pics so nobody believes me, anyway a great spot, use a five ounce weight, gets abit crowded though, its up bout 100 Yrds from colimore harbour, id use a wire trace, decent size hook and a mackerel lance (flank) for the smoothies, good luck.


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    #71
    safetyboy
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    15 or more in about an hour last night off Poolbeg pier just after the swimming club with silver feathers. Only 2 keepers, the rest went back, 1 random Pollock on there too. Could see the shoals at the top of the water.


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    #72
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,324 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    4 nice ones off Skerries this morning and 3 small ones "there on their way" :D




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    #73
    SeaFields
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    safetyboy wrote: »
    15 or more in about an hour last night off Poolbeg pier just after the swimming club with silver feathers. Only 2 keepers, the rest went back, 1 random Pollock on there too. Could see the shoals at the top of the water.

    Just a note on throwing them back. Mackerel skin is very fragile. Hence all the scales on your hands when handling them. So if you're releasing them try not handle them or else use a very damp cloth to hold them

    Not saying you didn't know this safetyboy, just a point for those that may not have known this :)


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    #74
    safetyboy
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    I didn't know that cheers.


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    #75
    gumbo1
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    I still have scales on one of my rods for over a year!! Say what ya like but I think it's like a war wound!!!


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    #76
    cardwizzard
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    Anybody having any luck around Arklow/NorthWexford?


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    #77
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Nothing from Greystones today.


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    #78
    degzs
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    Any luck around Galway?


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    #79
    elius
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elius


    Work in the fish industry and its not just the shore fishing thats being affected. There is short supply right across the board...


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    #80
    paddy147
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    cardwizzard wrote: »
    Anybody having any luck around Arklow/NorthWexford?


    12:30am this morning just north of Wicklow town.

    Small shoal of mackerel and sea trout in close to the shore...(high tide was 11:20pm).
    Caught 2 small uns (jack mackerel),went back into the sea straight away.

    2 seals swimming up and down close to the shoreline from around 10pm-10:30pm

    We had a field day doggie bashing and also catching lots of small tub gurnard and plaice to around a 1/2 lb.:)

    We left the beach at around 2am and got back home around 3am this morning.


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    #81
    paddy147
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    Forgot to post this.....Poolbeg Pier...( South Bull Wall) the other night.

    A few nice Mackerel on an incomming tide.:)


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    #82
    madchild
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Forgot to post this.....Poolbeg Pier...( South Bull Wall) the other night.

    A few nice Mackerel on an incomming tide.:)

    I only see 1 paddy :pac:


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    #83
    dodderangler
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    madchild wrote: »
    I only see 1 paddy :pac:

    That one was so big he eat the other ones before he got a photo


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    #84
    paddy147
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    madchild wrote: »
    I only see 1 paddy :pac:


    Well if you get up off your backside and actually go down there to jig for them,then you might actually see a few of them in the flesh...


    Or you could try your local river...:pac::pac::D

    madchild wrote: »
    It is as i,m at least 1 hour and 20 mins from the coast i could try the local river but i don,t think there,s any mackerel in them:rolleyes:


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    #85
    fergal.b
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Forgot to post this.....Poolbeg Pier...( South Bull Wall) the other night.

    A few nice Mackerel on an incomming tide.:)

    At least yours took the hook I had to foul mine :D

    2012-08-10184335-1.jpg


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    #86
    paddy147
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    fergal.b wrote: »
    At least yours took the hook I had to foul mine :D

    2012-08-10184335-1.jpg


    As long as you landed it,then thats all that counts.:)


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    #87
    madchild
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭madchild


    paddy147 wrote: »
    As long as you landed it,then thats all that counts.:)


    It,s called foul hooking for a reason if ya foul hook a salmon on a beat ya have to return it:p


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    #88
    patgmail
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭patgmail


    Paddy please do us all a favour and stick with the topic of this thread. it was designed to report on mackerel on the east coast by reporting when and where they have arrived. even reports of blanks proved useful. discussing other species and techniques or posting pictures is bad enough but the smart ass comments about others could be done without , thank you very much.

    pat g.


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    #89
    patgmail
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭patgmail


    wasn't fishing myself but called by poolbeg and the guys there said nothing was happening today.


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    #90
    dodderangler
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    Anyone heard of much around bullock harbour?


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    #91
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    Anyone heard of much around bullock harbour?

    As Greystones, Poolbeg and Clogherhead are all blank then I would shape t the Dalkey area is not much better.


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