any sign of macralle off Hartlepool
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BIG HITTER 1
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keep an eye on this forum and you'll soon know when there in BUT you'll still have to wait a bit longer because hartlepool is always the last place they turn up.
they usually show themselves in may given settled weather
they usually show themselves in may given settled weather
david.northeast
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Like said 16th of June normally about 4 o'clock mate
rocketman
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As above but cam sometimes be about 4.30 if there was a solar eclipse the day before
northeast1
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Expect them late this year, often it is late May early June from the Tyne in any real numbers but this year we are 3-5 weeks behind so from the shore it good numbers i would guess mid to back end of June.
Not one yet reported by angling boats and the south west Scotland that often gets them early May sometimes April has just seen the first few this week but next to none.
Also expect them to become far less with no law on how mnay the Iceland fleet can take now.
Not one yet reported by angling boats and the south west Scotland that often gets them early May sometimes April has just seen the first few this week but next to none.
Also expect them to become far less with no law on how mnay the Iceland fleet can take now.
kayos
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I heard one shoal got held up in Iceland and another in the Faroes for illegal congregation in groups of more than 1,000. The authorities did a trawl of all their usual haunts and scooped them all up. Even the young ones were taken into custody. They have had a net thrown round them and it looks like they have had their chips. Apparently they were all served up on a plate.
The rearguard is attempting to bye pass those Islands and are due in the UK at the end of the month. However inevitably, numbers will be reduced.
The rearguard is attempting to bye pass those Islands and are due in the UK at the end of the month. However inevitably, numbers will be reduced.
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bushwacker
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do u not mean MAYKREL 
Pete from shields
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lmfao! :d
HA HA HA!! Nice oneI heard one shoal got held up in Iceland and another in the Faroes for illegal congregation in groups of more than 1,000. The authorities did a trawl of all their usual haunts and scooped them all up. Even the young ones were taken into custody. They have had a net thrown round them and it looks like they have had their chips. Apparently they were all served up on a plate.
The rearguard is attempting to bye pass those Islands and are due in the UK at the end of the month. However inevitably, numbers will be reduced.
However I reckon the Mackarel will arrive at 18.00 hours o'clock on 5th June, at the end of Steetleys (be a brave man to go there for them though)
I've never even heard of macralle. Is that some kind of seaweed or what?
Fished the end of the steetley last week, put some feathers on in case, got a few small bass whar went back and a couple of these, think there herron,
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Kartonkel
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Last year we had so many that you could have stopped the boat anywhere on the north sea and there was a swarm underneath. You could have left the boat and walked on them!
I joined charters at Hartlepool where the usual subjects, the Polish Anglers, pulled thousands out...hours and hours of full houses...
Way to go until they are fished out I reckon
I personally think the 8C water temperature is the stumbling point. Once we reach mid teens they will arrive in number
kayos
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I used to wonder why they took so many until I went to Morrison's and paid £4.85 per pound for fillets!! For Mackerel!!
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You will have to get your freezer stocked Mark.
kayos
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Yup, next Saturday is our first day out, going to try Loch Riddon, I need to christen that Shimano spinning rod I beat you too
and Lynn needs to christen the combo I bought off you. And she needs to learn to cast! Please! Can't take another summer casting for her! Did you get out on the boat Steve?
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