Mackeral reports '06 here
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- SAI Lug Worm
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July 23rd
Sorry. Meant to put this report in yonks ago. !9 Mackerel on the 23rd July from the pier in Ring. All on feathers
By the way Pollocks, same problem for me with the Mullet!!
By the way Pollocks, same problem for me with the Mullet!!
Ama et fac quod vis - Love and do what you like
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Mackerel
Still large numbers about at Bangor, Co Down both of the pier and rocks towards Ballyholm. I was down in Waterford last week fishing Cunnigar and also caught some mackerel from the pier at Ring and driving over to Wexford to try for a smoothie I stopped at Dunmore east and caught 3 in 1/2 a dozen casts of the rocks behind the pier. All I wanted to put a big bait out on the chance of a tope.
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Hard hat and goggles
hi there
have been out of Helvic a few times the last couple of weeks
most high tides in Helvic and Ardmore have been producing large amounts of macs.
But I'am not brave enough to try. You would want life insurance, Full armour. hard hat and goggles to try it.
have been out of Helvic a few times the last couple of weeks
most high tides in Helvic and Ardmore have been producing large amounts of macs.
But I'am not brave enough to try. You would want life insurance, Full armour. hard hat and goggles to try it.
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Can anyone reading this tell me if mackeral fishing just as good in the morning as it would be in the evening (given good conditions, tide etc.)???
I fished Youghal one morning and I could see macks about but got none, the advantage is plenty elbow room while fishing in the mornings as opposed to busy evenings.
Blackie
I fished Youghal one morning and I could see macks about but got none, the advantage is plenty elbow room while fishing in the mornings as opposed to busy evenings.
Blackie
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Kinsale & Kinsale Bridge, this evening (Mon)
Me and my two youngsters
Result: Two disappointed nippers
Fished for about an hour to darkness (ht after 9PM) got nothing
saw about 6 mackerel between about 35 rods
Is this the slow finish of the mackerel season? Surely not.
There's no secrets being given away here! Why not help each other to catch a few macks while they're still about by channelling info to this site?
Blackie
Me and my two youngsters
Result: Two disappointed nippers
Fished for about an hour to darkness (ht after 9PM) got nothing
saw about 6 mackerel between about 35 rods
Is this the slow finish of the mackerel season? Surely not.
There's no secrets being given away here! Why not help each other to catch a few macks while they're still about by channelling info to this site?
Blackie
Kinsale, Trident Hotel car park
I was in Kinsale in mid August and the macks were everywhere. Amazing to watch them in action. I was in the car park of the Trident Hotel, and looking over the edge of the barrier I could see them in the water working in packs, cornering the sprats and hoovering them up. There were a few people fishing, mainly young lads who threw back most of what they caught; good for them, the catch & release message is getting through, and not a black bin liner in sight.
There was also the inevitable (adult) idiot who nearly hit a woman with a lead weight as he prepared to cast without checking behind him first; this in a busy car park, where all you had to do was drop the line in the water and pull it up with fish on it, and there he was casting ! As the Tayto advert says on RTE "There's always one". :roll:
I was in Kinsale in mid August and the macks were everywhere. Amazing to watch them in action. I was in the car park of the Trident Hotel, and looking over the edge of the barrier I could see them in the water working in packs, cornering the sprats and hoovering them up. There were a few people fishing, mainly young lads who threw back most of what they caught; good for them, the catch & release message is getting through, and not a black bin liner in sight.
There was also the inevitable (adult) idiot who nearly hit a woman with a lead weight as he prepared to cast without checking behind him first; this in a busy car park, where all you had to do was drop the line in the water and pull it up with fish on it, and there he was casting ! As the Tayto advert says on RTE "There's always one". :roll:
I read an article in the Irish Examiner about an Irish trawler called the "Atlantic Dawn". It spends 3 months at sea every year, catching around 1.8 million mackerel a day. around 16 million mackerel every season.
Make the most of them, as if they are being caught at that rate thy won't be around for much longer....
Make the most of them, as if they are being caught at that rate thy won't be around for much longer....
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on those figures it sounds like they are out for only 10 days of those 3 months - and thats what they are reporting
imagine the by catches and other fisheries they are single handedly destroying by taking that much mack out of the ecosystem that quickly
crazy stuff :evil:
probably the same boat is lauded for its health and safety and worker conditions and abiding by eu regulations - yet in its own way its killing the planet :cry:
imagine the by catches and other fisheries they are single handedly destroying by taking that much mack out of the ecosystem that quickly
crazy stuff :evil:
probably the same boat is lauded for its health and safety and worker conditions and abiding by eu regulations - yet in its own way its killing the planet :cry:
catch and release!
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corbyeire wrote:on those figures it sounds like they are out for only 10 days of those 3 months - and thats what they are reporting
imagine the by catches and other fisheries they are single handedly destroying by taking that much mack out of the ecosystem that quickly
crazy stuff :evil:
probably the same boat is lauded for its health and safety and worker conditions and abiding by eu regulations - yet in its own way its killing the planet :cry:
Sorry, Corbyeire, my numbers were out by a little bit ( :oops: ); 90 days at 1.8 macks per day is 160 million, not 16 million. I can't see how they would get that many, but even if 50% of the number is closer to the truth, that's 80 million macks a year gone. And you can bet they don't worry about the size of the fish.
And that's just one boat of many.
and you are right about the health and safety stuff etc. One day there will be no fish left, and all the trawler moaners will have no one to blame but themselves for the destruction of stocks; of course, they will blame everyone else from politicians to anglers, as usual.
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when you think about it the mackie-bashers are doing nothing to the fish stocks in that context
whats 1000s to 160million!!!!!
whats 1000s to 160million!!!!!
catch and release!
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