Popular Post Malc Posted July 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2022 My wife and daughter were going to get their hair done this afternoon and I thought that I would be grandad day care but no, I was free for the afternoon. Long walk down the pier including a scramble around the gate and I hoped to contact a herring or two as they were being reported, but as the mackerel have been absent due to a dirty onshore wind there were few people on the end. It was dreadfully slow and I didn't want to fish too deep and get loads of small pollock so started with a float set to 30'. Two guys eventually started to hit launce for bait when they go to Luce Bay and as I wasn't getting any fish I started to fish small sabikis deep. I couldn't catch my fingers in a door today and watched them using the same rigs in the same place hauling in ones and twos as I blanked. There were even a few pollock and coalie in the mix with a single mackerel and eventually I started helping out with a few snakes. Eventually one guy hooked a herring and offered it to me. RESULT! Pan fried with pointed red pepper, baguette and a cold glass of sauvignon blanc...bliss, I could have eaten another 3, but I was rubbish today 😆 Saintly Fish, JDP, GPSguru and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Malc said: I was rubbish today 😆 I admire your honesty 🤣👍 But at least you got a meal out of the session, and a tasty-looking one at that. A good result, even if it wasn't really yours 🤣 Malc and captin slows old outlaw 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 On 7/28/2022 at 7:24 PM, Malc said: ...I was rubbish today ... ...but not today! On 7/28/2022 at 9:30 PM, Andy135 said: I admire your honesty 🤣👍 Today was different. A yomp one mile along the pier, three casts and I managed 2 nice mackerel, couple casts later another. Others were hitting a few herring but about 4 to one on the mackerel. As I was really wanting herring I put on even smaller sabikis and watched people getting them on big daylights and tinsels. So after 3/4 of an hour I yomped back a mile to the bottom of the pier and decided to try the groyne half a mile away and when I got there it was just about slack water and I lost 3 sets of gear in 15 minutes and set off a half mile back to the car. I met a church group, mainly Ghanaian, having a barbecue and offered them 2 of the mackerel and they insisted I had a little food and drink with them which was nice as it was 23-24C and I was getting dehydrated. Back home and tapas with baked lemon mackerel as a final course but we over did the cheese so will make croquettes/fishcakes with the cooked flesh tomorrow 😋 It's still a bit sticky inshore with the mackerel and herring but I think it's changing soon. GPSguru, Andy135 and suzook12 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Nice work. Seems like the mackerel are just as "hit & miss" up there as they are down here. Frustrating little buggers at the best of times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 We have a few Mackerel around, but you have to know where to go to catch consistently. We also often get herring in with the Mackerel shoals, I have probably caught maybe a dozen this year, but I don't eat them and chuck 'em back. The Autumn will usually see massive Scad shoals, which are 1/2lb fish, but out on the wrecks the Scad are quite large (2lb ish) Malc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted July 31, 2022 Author Share Posted July 31, 2022 8 hours ago, Andy135 said: Nice work. Seems like the mackerel are just as "hit & miss" up there as they are down here. Frustrating little buggers at the best of times. Certainly from the shore, from the boat we just looked for the sounder to light up and a couple of drops and we had enough, I was even getting them on 4" sandeel lures and regularly had rattles as they hit the tails. Tight lines everyone suzook12 and Saintly Fish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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