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Mega Mackerel Merge 2016 - They're breaking! Mod Note #1

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    #152
    squidly
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭squidly


    Cobh isn't a bad spot. There's plenty of space along the quays from the town centre down to the train station. It doesn't get as crowded as the likes of Ballycotton etc.


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    #153
    smashiner
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭smashiner


    Anything happening around Dalkey, I was thinking of give Coliemore a bash for a few hours tomorrow afternoon, is it worth my while?


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    #154
    captain_boycott
    Registered Users Posts: 539 ✭✭✭captain_boycott


    Still some Macks around, but when do they disappear from offshore again. Sea temperatures dropping now so assume they'll be damn all about in the next couple of weeks or so?


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    #155
    bpmurray
    Registered Users Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    captain_boycott wrote: »
    Still some Macks around, but when do they disappear from offshore again. Sea temperatures dropping now so assume they'll be damn all about in the next couple of weeks or so?

    It depends on where you are - my latest from Clogherhead was Nov 15.


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    #156
    captain_boycott
    Registered Users Posts: 539 ✭✭✭captain_boycott


    bpmurray wrote: »
    It depends on where you are - my latest from Clogherhead was Nov 15.

    Good to know, thanks! BTW, I'm based in Mayo, so Clew bay/Killala bay would be my spots. Hopefully we have a few more weeks so!


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    #157
    Caribs
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭Caribs


    Haven't heard of many/any been caught in the Galway prom area this year. I'm not living over this side of the country long enough to know if off years happen from time to time but it's the first time in the 10 or so years I've been over here that I don't remember seeing good runs of fish.

    Anyone know if this is a normal cyclical type thing or if the factory trawlers off Iceland have finally done it for the mackerel?

    ....or did I just miss them?


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    #158
    dmc17
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Caribs wrote: »
    Haven't heard of many/any been caught in the Galway prom area this year. I'm not living over this side of the country long enough to know if off years happen from time to time but it's the first time in the 10 or so years I've been over here that I don't remember seeing good runs of fish.

    Anyone know if this is a normal cyclical type thing or if the factory trawlers off Iceland have finally done it for the mackerel?

    ....or did I just miss them?

    Been catching a few off Clare coast over the summer. Nothing spectacular, but enough all the same. Caught ~20 last Saturday too which was 1st October, so was happy enough with that


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    #159
    captain_boycott
    Registered Users Posts: 539 ✭✭✭captain_boycott


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWlkjPWfRwperhaps they came in early this year! No shortage of Macks in this video from Youghal in July.


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    #160
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    captain_boycott wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWlkjPWfRwperhaps they came in early this year! No shortage of Macks in this video from Youghal in July.

    July wasn't early. (we had that video in post #94).

    I got some on the east coast last Monday.


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    #161
    nokiatom
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭nokiatom


    Odin Jealous Hotel wrote: »
    July wasn't early. (we had that video in post #94).

    I got some on the east coast last Monday.
    Not many mackerel seen since then in Youghal. September and early October are usually the better months to catch them off the quays but this season has been windy and the bait is not moving in.


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    #162
    jolatacqce
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭jolatacqce


    Hi all,a friend of mine caught 20 mackerel off the quay in Youghal on Fri.last 28/Oct.Also as I was mooring my boat in Nealons Quay,known locally as Buttimers dock,yesterday evening,just before high water,there was a big break of mackerel in the dock.


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    #163
    squidly
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭squidly


    I caught a mackeral on bait and saw a few small breaks down in monkstown last week.


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    #164
    SeaFields
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    squidly wrote: »
    I caught a mackeral on bait and saw a few small breaks down in monkstown last week.

    When I lived in Cork I fished the wall, cobh and ringaskiddy a lot. Always had a small trout rod with us and floated a sliver of mackerel. Got mackerel all year round doing that. Used to be great to have fresh bait for whiting and great craic too!

    Saw mackerel breaking around the pier in monkstown one frosty December night too!


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    #165
    Mikecraddock
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭Mikecraddock


    I caught mackerel yesterday, in Cork harbour! Mad to think they still around in mid November!


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    #166
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Just saw on Facebook that mackerel being caught in Ardmore!


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    #167
    EmptyTree
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭EmptyTree


    SeaFields wrote: »
    Just saw on Facebook that mackerel being caught in Ardmore!

    Global warming! - One step closer to the mackerel thread being busy all year round :D


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    #168
    nokiatom
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭nokiatom


    That's not unusual. In December I caught about 20. Last year I got half a box in January


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    #169
    smashiner
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭smashiner


    Yep, I was out for a stroll over the Christmas on the West Pier in Dun Laoghaire and there were lads catching small mackerel and herring on feathers off the end of the lighthouse. Weirdly, some of the feathers had small strips of bait on them too, seemed to work on the day..... :rolleyes:


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