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Mackerel 2019

  • 24-06-2019 11:18am
    #1
    Ultimate Seduction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭


    Maybe a bit early yet but can people update with locations when they start catching a few.


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  • #2
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Going to try rathmullan in Donegal next week. Not holding up much hope.


  • #3
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Report from bullock harbour is all joey mackerel being caught.


  • #4
    big dan
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭big dan


    I'm heading to Achill next weekend so will update on here afterwards.
    Anyone been fishing out there recently?


    I'd be interested to hear how Dun Laoghaire is fishing now too if anone has been out there.


  • #5
    a148pro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭a148pro


    big dan wrote: »
    I'm heading to Achill next weekend so will update on here afterwards.
    Anyone been fishing out there recently?


    I'd be interested to hear how Dun Laoghaire is fishing now too if anone has been out there.

    I will probably be out of dun laoghaire today and tomorrow - where are the good spots for mackerel there from boat? I appreciate people don't reveal spots online but mackerel are the Fish equivalent of spars


  • #6
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    a148pro wrote: »
    I will probably be out of dun laoghaire today and tomorrow - where are the good spots for mackerel there from boat? I appreciate people don't reveal spots online but mackerel are the Fish equivalent of spars

    If you have a boat go to bullock harbour in between the island and mainland. Best mackerel spot


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  • #7
    a148pro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Nothing biting yesterday though that may reflect our incompetence, only hand reels with old feathers. Lads we met on dalkey island said there were mackerel around anyway.


  • #8
    robbie67
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭robbie67


    Went out last Saturday fishing off Lambay Island 8 of us only caught about a dozen between all of us


  • #9
    Dgamblerbob
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Dgamblerbob


    Anyone been fishing to castle point/dunlicky or bridges of Ross or west coast in last couple of days


  • #10
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Nothing happening in Rathmullan Donegal. Absolutely nothing!!!


  • #11
    Kat1170
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    If anglers could specify whether they are boat or shore fishing that would be much appreciated :)


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  • #12
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    robbie67 wrote: »
    Went out last Saturday fishing off Lambay Island 8 of us only caught about a dozen between all of us



    Them are the scout mackerel ye got. The big shoals will be following them in along


  • #13
    Ultimate Seduction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    Any good spots around lisdonvarna or would I be better off fishing on the beach. Staying down there tomorrow night


  • #14
    dmc17
    Registered Users Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Ultimate Seduction wrote: »
    Any good spots around lisdonvarna or would I be better off fishing on the beach. Staying down there tomorrow night

    There's an expansive rock fishing area at Ballyreen just a few mins up the road, if that's what you are after. Right beside the road.


  • #15
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    Anyone down around Dunmore East ?


  • #16
    big dan
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭big dan


    I was in Achill for the week and fished a few spots, but not one bite unfortunately.


  • #17
    Ultimate Seduction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    Nothing happening around Kilkee / Dunlicky either


  • #18
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Anything in Kerry yet?


  • #19
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Ultimate Seduction wrote: »
    Nothing happening around Kilkee / Dunlicky either

    I was in Dunlicky the other evening, 4 hour's and 12 mackerel, I needed 6 for bait and got 2 in the first hour and the rest in 3 casts before it got dark.

    Its full of coalies and I had to put on an 8oz weight to drop it fast enough.

    The flats in fanore fish fairly well if you can punch out a 5oz lead and 3 feathers 150 yards +

    I usually use 15lbs line 3 feathers and an old battered well tuned abu 6500ct old century tip tornado sport gets the distance and out into the current outside which the mackerel travel.

    They're like roads and the fish seem to traverse these routes then at slack water they'll become more adventurous and move inshore...


  • #20
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Oh yeah I use a 60lbs shock leader while belting out a 5oz weigh with 15lbs line.

    No snags at the flats so it cuts down on line abrasion.


  • #21
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Boat between Moher and Inis Oirr last week - nothing. Picked up a few pollock in the shallows but no mackerel in deeper waters.


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  • #22
    HARRY72
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭HARRY72


    Anything in Cork area?


  • #23
    cd07
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭cd07


    HARRY72 wrote:
    Anything in Cork area?


    Fished the beara for 4 days solid and only got 6 mackerel between two of us. Very disappointed all round only average sized Pollack,congers and coalies. Fishing has finally crashed


  • #24
    Ultimate Seduction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    cd07 wrote: »
    Fished the beara for 4 days solid and only got 6 mackerel between two of us. Very disappointed all round only average sized Pollack,congers and coalies. Fishing has finally crashed

    It's early yet. Back end of August if I haven't a freezer full I'll be disappointed.


  • #25
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    Was down in Clifden for the weekendboat fishing.


    Between 6 anglers we caught maybe a couple of dozen..pollack were far more plentiful.


  • #26
    Andyp28
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Andyp28


    Anything around dalkey or greystones


  • #27
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,859 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Couple of small boats fishing out of malin Head had 20 to 30 mackerel each. Medium size with a few large.


  • #28
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    There's plenty of them turning up around West Clare, early morning seems to be the best time.


  • #29
    Gumbi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭Gumbi


    Going to be around Caherciveen area this weekend, any know of any reports around there of them being around? I'll report back here if I catch any.


  • #30
    jousting with chairs
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭jousting with chairs


    Gumbi wrote: »
    Going to be around Caherciveen area this weekend, any know of any reports around there of them being around? I'll report back here if I catch any.

    Haven't heard anything from there but I tried Fenit pier a couple of evenings last week and only saw one mackeral caught even though there was a good few fishing.


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  • #31
    Bio Mech
    Registered Users Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    Gumbi wrote: »
    Going to be around Caherciveen area this weekend, any know of any reports around there of them being around? I'll report back here if I catch any.

    Had several (could have had dozens) there last week. We got about 12 and then stopped.


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