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Plenty a few miles from the mouth of Youghal on Saturday
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Still very scarce around Killala Bay. Even the charter boats have been reporting days of total blanks. Mid-July now, worrying...
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Trolled from ballbriggan to the cardy rocks and fished for 3hrs over hw tonight and tried crab on the bottom , "not a fish in site between two boats"
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i had two macks in the boat today between two of us for 8 hours not good, plenty of other fish about including a couple dozen of launce.
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Got 14 or so today / Sunday, Just out from Ballyvaughan, fished from 4:30 to 8pm, I fried 2 at the slip and I have to say they went down real good with dry bread and tae,
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Got almost 60 in an hour or so outside Ballycastle North Mayo last Thurs. Froze 20 smaller ones for bait, barbecued half a dozen, and smoked the rest over rosemary branches in the fading barby. They keep for months in the freezer after that.
Friend was out nearby on Sat and only got 7 in 2 hours, so they're coming and going still.
Friend was out nearby on Sat and only got 7 in 2 hours, so they're coming and going still.
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Was scooting around cork harbour yesterday with kds. Took a few drops and couldn't find Mack's in the harbour at all.
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We caught around a dozen between three of us on Sunday out of Carlingford. Still very patchy - hopefully they'll pick up in August.
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4 of us got 8 between us off bray head.... We hit 1 shole all day..
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good few macks outside of cork harbour over weekend
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Fishing about a mile off Bunmahon a few days back - only the one mackerel. The general view round here is that the macks are very poor so far this year.
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Fished for a few hours off Carnesore Point Wexford area last Saturday. Caught one fine sized and two smaller (on the same trace) just off the Coomb strand. Scarce at the minute!
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25 mackerel yesterday between pylons at Greencastle Carlingford lough
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Had 90 between two of us last friday within an hour and a half Dublin/Bray.
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I was out Wednesday John, drifting between shank hill and greystones... 11 between 3 of us.
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Dublin bay full of macks at the moment, two of us had 140 today i gave up after an hour of catching them, another few in the freezer and familys fed 

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A buddy of mine out by himself in West Connemara had about 200 mackerel last Wednesday. Location around McDaras Island. When he came in they were breaking the water around his house. He reports that they appear to be everywhere. Mixture of medium and an occasional large ones through them.
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JOHN1 wrote:Dublin bay full of macks at the moment, two of us had 140 today i gave up after an hour of catching them, another few in the freezer and familys fed
a boat was about double casting range the other day from the back of dunlaoaghaire and they were pulling them up litrally every drop
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36 today out of dunlaoghaire alot of joeys about
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4hours dunloire 10 joeysste c wrote:36 today out of dunlaoghaire alot of joeys about
