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Don`t know if others have found that the mackerel are few and far between this year?? Off North Wales anglers are `sometimes` just getting one mackerel a day whilst bait fishing. No Bass either but plenty of baby flatfish.
Does anyone know other areas having the same problem??
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There was a period last year along the N Wales coast where I am that was producing loads (joeys though) havent tried this year yet but does seem quiet from what I've heard.
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It's the same at Morecambe Bay, very few mackerel coming through. Just the odd one now and again.
The place is overrun with garfish though, not seen so many for years.
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chris_parry wrote: Fri Jun 08 2018 09:48 -
It's the same at Morecambe Bay, very few mackerel coming through. Just the odd one now and again.
The place is overrun with garfish though, not seen so many for years.
Garfish, you say? My bait freezer's empty. :grin:
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Chris,
I agree, off Barmouth last Summer you couldn`t get to the mackerel lower down as the small joey`s would take the feathers in the first 6 feet.
On one day there were two bait balls being hammered by Gannets, Seagulls, and Guillemot's from the top and God knows from what underneath. A great site.
We had some tope last week on flatties but the fishing is slow despite the surface water temperature of 16 degrees C.
More to come later in the year I hope.
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davelumb wrote: Fri Jun 08 2018 10:08 -
chris_parry wrote: Fri Jun 08 2018 09:48 -
It's the same at Morecambe Bay, very few mackerel coming through. Just the odd one now and again.
The place is overrun with garfish though, not seen so many for years.
Garfish, you say? My bait freezer's empty. :grin:
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We've been catching from a boat, spinning with a small 10 gramme Toby , but I've heard they are also catching them from the pier at Blackpool. :thumbs:
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I'm too idle to catch the feckers! :laughs:
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davelumb wrote: Fri Jun 08 2018 14:17 -
I'm too idle to catch the feckers! :laughs:
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chrisjdonovan wrote: Fri Jun 08 2018 08:44 -
Don`t know if others have found that the mackerel are few and far between this year?? Off North Wales anglers are `sometimes` just getting one mackerel a day whilst bait fishing. No Bass either but plenty of baby flatfish.
Does anyone know other areas having the same problem??
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Seven of us on a boat out of Aberdyfi a couple of days ago and not one mackerel was caught between us. Maybe it will be similar to last year, i.e. a slow start and then millions of the buggers throwing themselves up the beaches at the end of the season.
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It always starts later and later now with mackerel, not turned up at Dungeness yet , but are off shore not far in the clear water

Bass are everywhere , am up to 38 now , all shorefishing lures, beach fishing as it should be
Crack Hargreaves...........far out of town.


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I have just returned from Southern climes where the much loved sardine has been so severely depleted there is a ban on all landings so the mackerel have become the substitute.
Saw some near 3lb mackerel in the markets in Galicia, beautiful fish.

Gannets diving off the Wight on the return journey (could be sandeels though).
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Posting yesterday of mackerel caught at Portsmouth , we will get them in hythe next week , 30 degrees , high pressure no wind forecast
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I`m up to North Wales this weekend and I am hoping the macky have arrived. If they aren`t in now then I don`t know what is happening.
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Bearing collapsed on boat trailor despite regular greasing so no macky this weekend.
The AA were brilliant and I had the boat back and on the drive by 10.0 this morning.
Had no problem getting the new bearings but not the seals with a 4 day lee time.
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chrisjdonovan wrote: Fri Jun 22 2018 10:20 -
I`m up to North Wales this weekend and I am hoping the macky have arrived. If they aren`t in now then I don`t know what is happening.
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pikerholic2 wrote: Fri Jun 22 2018 08:12 -
Posting yesterday of mackerel caught at Portsmouth , we will get them in hythe next week , 30 degrees , high pressure no wind forecast



Hythe....HYTHE!

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My mate told me that the macky are all over the place in their millions. Just my luck.
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Conwy coast producing?
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Fished this week and noticed a few things out at sea.
No mackerel
No Gannets
No Seagulls
No Guillemots
Only tiny bass
What`s going on? This from an area which always produces all of the above.
Trawlers???
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Hopefully getting out later this week up at Amble, only a few mackerel last time out but have heard they are starting to put in an appearance now, fingers crossed and here's hoping.

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Will,
Lets hope August brings better results.
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The whole Forth River from Edinburgh to the bridges is writhing with em.
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Went off Lydstep Haven on Sunday (next to Tenby) and the mackerel were few and far between. Had a dozen but worked all day for that.
The `in the know` locals are telling me that the mackerel fishing is very poor in relation to previous years.
Maybe the hot summer with low winds has made them stay out at sea with no need to enter shallower water around the Welsh coast???
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They are being harried from pillar to post by them damn Bluefin tuna.
You need the Frenchies to come over there to sort em out!

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Spoke to a bloke on the N Wales coast last week and he said no sign of them
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Off to Cornwall / Lizard peninsular in a couple of weeks and was hoping to bag up on a freezer box full for early winter.... plus some bass hopefully!
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Went to Weymouth with the family a couple of weeks ago and me and the lad tried off chesil beach. Macks were few and far between just the odd fish. Think we only had four and one Gar. Been before and caught 5 at a time but if they’re not there you can’t catch em!
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Thick with them all along Kent coast , dungy , Hythe
Crack Hargreaves...........far out of town.


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Still nothing in N Wales
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Kevin O'Keeffe wrote: Thu Sep 06 2018 13:04 -
Off to Cornwall / Lizard peninsular in a couple of weeks and was hoping to bag up on a freezer box full for early winter.... plus some bass hopefully!


Kev.
The taking of any Bass is banned in UK waters.
Stocks at dangerously low levels with recruitment suffering accordingly.
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