Are Mackeral in Galway yet?

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JCoffey

Are Mackeral in Galway yet?

#1 Post by JCoffey »

Hi Guys,
Want to take the Kids fishing for Mackeral this week in Galway. We will be fishing from the shore. Anybody know if they're catchin them in decent numbers yet anywhere - Salthill, Barna Spiddel etc.?
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Re: Are Mackeral in Galway yet?

#2 Post by lucky »

ha mate pleanty of mackeral in around spiddal pier .. but have to tell you any mackeral been caught are very small only 3 to 4 inchs......
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Re: Are Mackeral in Galway yet?

#3 Post by JCoffey »

lucky wrote:ha mate pleanty of mackeral in around spiddal pier .. but have to tell you any mackeral been caught are very small only 3 to 4 inchs......
Thanks for the reply.

Are there any decent sized mackerel around yet or are they all small?
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Re: Are Mackeral in Galway yet?

#4 Post by globulin77 »

Not sure,
Caught both big and small but I never saw as many small fish as I did last week . Don't know if that answers the question really.

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