SHORE MACKEREL REPORTS 2020

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Re: SHORE MACKEREL REPORTS 2020

#21 Post by guernica84 »

1st cast at Buncrana yesterday a mack but fell off lifting it. Thought I was in for a bagging session, not another touch : (
2013 species (23 shore): flounder, plaice, turbot, dab, coalfish, pollock, codling, mackerel, cuttlefish, silver eel, pouting, 3b & 5b rockling, white trout, salmon, whiting, LSD, ballan, corkwing & goldsinney wrasse, thornback & spotted ray, red gurnard, lesser weever, LSSS
2014 shore (27): flounder, plaice, turbot, dab, coalfish, pollock, codling, mackerel, silver eel, pouting, 5b rockling, whiting, LSD, GSD, tope, smoothhound, ballan&corkwing wrasse, thornback & painted ray, tub gurnard, bass, common blenny, rock goby, haddock, LSSS, poor cod
2015 shore (37): cod, flounder, pollack, coalfish, poor cod, 5 bd rockling, shore rockling, whiting, LSD, plaice, dab, thornback ray, undulate ray, stingray, garfish, conger, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, rock-cook wrasse, goldsinney wrasse, tub gurnard, common & tompot blenny, rock goby, pout, greater sandeel, mackerel, smoothhound, turbot, haddock, scad, red mullet, black bream, silver eel, bass, lesser weever, lsss
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Re: SHORE MACKEREL REPORTS 2020

#22 Post by corbyeire »

one practicaly up the river in kilcolgan...
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#23 Post by DarrenNiall »

1 Mack and 1 Launce in an hour off the rocks in Killiney. Lots of other people fishing and I didn’t see anything else being caught.
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#24 Post by GKC0806 »

Popped into the local (fishing tackle supplier*) (*Identity and exact nature of the shop not disclosed to protect the owner!) in Co.Dublin (location protected), and asked the owner what the sea fishing has been like recently in the area.
Guidance was that the Mackerel and Pollack were swarming as thick as sardines all the way from Howth to Killiney and all available on feathers from the shore.
From his description one could imagine barrel loads of absolute slabs - King Mackerel size no less.
So either everyone on this site (will count myself in on this category) are completely Sh1te anglers who would starve to death if fishing for self preservation, or we're all somehow collectively missing the best fishing Dublin has ever offered!
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#25 Post by Gonzo »

GKC0806 wrote:Popped into the local (fishing tackle supplier*) (*Identity and exact nature of the shop not disclosed to protect the owner!) in Co.Dublin (location protected), and asked the owner what the sea fishing has been like recently in the area.
Guidance was that the Mackerel and Pollack were swarming as thick as sardines all the way from Howth to Killiney and all available on feathers from the shore.
From his description one could imagine barrel loads of absolute slabs - King Mackerel size no less.
So either everyone on this site (will count myself in on this category) are completely Sh1te anglers who would starve to death if fishing for self preservation, or we're all somehow collectively missing the best fishing Dublin has ever offered!
Did it make you want to buy several different types of feathers?
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#26 Post by GKC0806 »

Hi Gonzo, that's a hoot. I thought the same thing - but felt that was quite a deceitful bit of advice he was offering. If anything i'm now certainly not inclined to want to take any tips or buy any supplies from the individual. If he had been honest and maybe said "look, the intel I have from local folk who are spending some time on the water, is that it's still challenging, and only a scattered few have been coming out from the shore on feathers (...and possibly add, at ...tide, ...depth, ...hours, ...locations..), and from what i know, there's a particular colour scheme/pattern that seems to be working right now..." then perhaps he may have been more believable and i might have purchased some his feathers.
As it stands right now, I'm more inclined to just get my fly-tying boxes out and whip up a few of my own dandy feather patterns.
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#27 Post by Its Ofishal »

A coupe of dozen caught on incoming tide by 6-8 anglers on bull wall yesterday morning. None on incoming last night but only 3 fishing when I left.
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#28 Post by Seany887 »

Hi we're they fishing towards city side or the beach side I have seen them caught before down by the bridge
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#29 Post by Its Ofishal »

Red lighthouse on Sandymount beach side
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#30 Post by Its Ofishal »

Sorry Poolbeg.
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#31 Post by corbyeire »

Few being reported out in Carraroe
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#32 Post by Deleted User 3488 »

Saw 2 caught in Skerries today, medium sized fish.
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#33 Post by Alek »

Quite a lot of medium/large macs off Poolbeg yesterday, seen a few guys leaving with plenty for a family BBQ :)

I've arrived a bit late and only caught a largeish one, but she fought so hard I thought I'm pulling a decent bass :D

1.5-1h before the high tide was apparently the right time.
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#34 Post by corbyeire »

Few in Kinvarra bay
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#35 Post by daithicn »

Nada, Zilch, Not a peep :cry: Howth Head, Monday 22 June, few hours either side of high tide. Brisk easterly breeze, Sea conditions fairly rough. Probably not ideal for mack fishing. Seals laughing at me. Lovely day otherwise. Somebody somewhere loves a trier. :lol:
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#36 Post by corbyeire »

a few singles at killary, not worth the journey on its own yet
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#37 Post by Phortlairge »

Plenty of mackerel here in mid/west Waterford. More so off the boats but we're getting plenty off the shore the last fortnight too.
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#38 Post by martin435 »

Nothing in Howth yesterday, but there was a lot of chop and the wind was blowing a gale
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#39 Post by Gonzo »

Got one mackerel off Skerries pier this morning at 4am, about 1.5hrs to high tide. Was using orange bunty tubes, fished up to high tide but only got the one!
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#40 Post by eoghanb »

Fair play to ye your dedicated

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