the macky have arrived !!!!!!!!!!

I'd rather eat my feet than go after mackerel on the piers now.

I wait until I'm over the Mull and get what I want then....peace, quiet and fish where you want with no charvers.

Bliss.
 
Had a short session on Blyth Pier this morning, was already a couple of people on and a few more turned up before I left, plenty of sprats in the water but not a single mackeral taken while I was there. Tried just next to the end, the bend and slight around from the bend.

Anyone know what times of the day and tide state the ones that have been caught have been showing up?
 
If any have been caught at all they must just be strays as am sure with all the boat lads lines in the water spaced out over miles and miles someone would have got some good numbers.

Maybe after the NE sea settles down tue,wed next week they may show in numbers.

Hope so as out wed, thu,fri :)
 
Why does everyone get so excited about the arrival of the mackerel ? Is it because the fishing up here is no good or is it that the fishermen up here are no good ? It seems that no one in these parts is prepared to put in a bit of thought and take a bit of time to target the "real" fish that are to be caught. Everyone can catch mackerel, so apart from getting a bit of bait for the winter months and a few meals for the missus I don`t bother with them.
 
Use them to catch real fish, every single one of my doubles for the last 22 years has come from some sort of rig baited with...yep you guessed it MACKEREL :)
 
they carnt wait for them to arrive cos they have had a bad winter and take it out of the mackerel have heard folk say have never caught a cod all winter must be doing something wrong there like but yes mackerel is top bait on the boats why you get the bigger stamp showing when they arrive yes ....... mackerel = big fish
 
Kentish Bassman said:
Why does everyone get so excited about the arrival of the mackerel ? Is it because the fishing up here is no good or is it that the fishermen up here are no good ? It seems that no one in these parts is prepared to put in a bit of thought and take a bit of time to target the "real" fish that are to be caught. Everyone can catch mackerel, so apart from getting a bit of bait for the winter months and a few meals for the missus I don`t bother with them.
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because any numty can catch them!!
 
I've never fished for them on our coastline even when i was an 'numpty' and just starting out. However, fished for them off Peel breakwater IOM last year on the odd occasion for something to do and there were hoards of them, going beyond ridiculous. Heard u can catch them on the pipe and the fish quay as well. Might give it ago with a spinning rod rather than with chucking out daylights on one of my casting rods!
 
Pound for pound and taken on the right gear there's not a harder fighting fish out there.
I just wish they were given the respect they deserve.
 
light spinning gear, 1 lure, definitely the way to catch mackerel. Stocking up your freezer with bait's all good but might as well make it fun. Feathering just seems like commercial fishing to me, plus you have to stop fishing sooner as you can't keep that many mackerel fresh for long enough. They do fight like hell though, if they grew to 25lb no-one would fish for anything else..
 
I would also agree with Paul too, fish light and you will have a great time. I would have to say that Mackerel, Pollack and Wrasse can be great sport when fished on light gear. Pound for pound more fight in them than Codling and I would class all of them as "real fish" too, whatever a real fish is lol.

We all know that there are the mindless idiots that go out each year and catch loads of Mackerel, leaving them all day on the piers to go off in the sun, catching far more than anyone with a tiny bit of common sense would do and quite often just leaving them when they go home. Lets not go tarring everyone that likes to go out fishing for Mackerel with the same brush though, It's something I have enjoyed since I first started fishing and hopefully something I will manage to do again this year. Nothing nicer on a hot day than to stand on a pier and attempt catch a few, much better than being at work or being sat in front of the bloody television lol.

You can sometimes fish all day with a spinner and for some strange reason not get a touch, stick some feathers on and instantly get a take. When I go I always take both, if the lures don't work I will cut some feathers in two and try them. I usually go with just two as on a light rod you wouldn't get them out of the water if you got a full house lol. I still think though that float fishing for any of the afor mentioned fish with a float has to be one of the most exciting ways of fishing, especially if you are closer to the water :D :D

I also have a couple of telescopic rods and if you hook a Mackerel on one of them then you have to play the fish for a while before you can land it as the rods are not strong enough to bully the fish to the shore, that is also great fun and it also gives the fish more of a fighting chance too.

Jim.
 
thewestwind said:
Pound for pound and taken on the right gear there's not a harder fighting fish out there.
I just wish they were given the respect they deserve.
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Totally agree, with the lightest of gear and right conditions i.e (early morning, calm sea, no wind and not a numpty insight) can be the best few hours fishing you can have IMOP.
 

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