Mackerel skin in or out

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#1 Post by **Donagh** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:33 am

Watching Henry Gilbey I see he wraps mackerel with the flesh on the outside I presume for more sent. I'd wrap mackerel on the hook with skin on the outside to as its more together against crabs and casting. To me this is a must when frozen but I still do it when fresh.

Donagh

Mr_Green · #2 Post by **Mr_Green** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:04 am

i put it on the hook thro the skin first, move it up the shank, twist it and put the hook thro the skin again...so its a bit of both...

paulocallaghan · #3 Post by **paulocallaghan** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:26 am

i always try and leave it with the skin facing the point if the hook as its a neater finish and doest hide the hook point, also with crab will always try and linish with the back facing forward as it again is a cleaner fininsh

#4 Post by **pete** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:39 am

Shiny side facing out, added attraction. Seen Italians in boat angling comp in Downings couple of years ago skin the mackerel completely and lightly whip flesh to hook...also seen them clean up in that comp :)

paulocallaghan · #5 Post by **paulocallaghan** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:41 am

[quote="pete"] skin the mackerel completely and lightly whip flesh to hook...quote]
that would work only with fresh mack, frozen is far too soft

#6 Post by **chrisfeeney30** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:40 pm

i leave the skin on the outside..have always done it!

#7 Post by **lumpy** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:29 am

when fishing for huss we tend to use fairly large baits, usually 2 half fillets tied back to back on a pennell rig so the flesh is out.ends up looking like a sausage, it appears that this fishes significantly better than when the skin is out, have looked at it when its dropped into the water and there is a large cloud of juice etc realesed, which appears to be missing from skin out...