Mackerel

[MadMayo]

Caught 30 yesterday and 26 two days before that off the cliffs on down patrick head in Mayo. Just used a beach caster and feathers....... jumping on the rod this weather.... should be good til October!!

[the Deel Rover]

Caught 30 yesterday and 26 two days before that off the cliffs on down patrick head in Mayo. Just used a beach caster and flies....... jumping on the rod this weather.... should be good til October!!

you must be as full as a tick madmayo

[haranguerer]

Sorry, folks, but I have to do this. I meant to leave it alone and I know I'm going to annoy people, but I'm like a man with boxing gloves and an itchy bum looking at it. It's giving me that nails scraping a blackboard sensation. Other people get irritated by bad refereeing decisions or crooked politicians or important stuff like that, but me ...

So, sorry Bud - it's not you, it's me. But it's mackerEl.

I straighten pictures in my time off from correcting spelling and fixing apostrophes.

I agree with Canalman anyway - straight out of the water and onto the pan is the only way.

Noticed in your initial response you hadn't actually mentioned the word, I figured you were trying to avoid looking like a dick by spelling it correctly in what may have seemed a patronising way.

Right with you btw. Facebook does my nut...

[fearglasmor]

Years ago the harbour used to be black with lads, including meself) after mackerel and you could pull in 6 or 7 fish in one go on a line with feathers. In recent years its completely disappeared. No more fish. Dont know if its big trawlers but could be to do with seals taking up residence in the harbour that were never there when I used to fish.

[Mayo4Sam]

Hardy, let me know if u organise to go out any evening, I'd be interested in tagging along

[Hardy]

Hardy, let me know if u organise to go out any evening, I'd be interested in tagging along

Will do.

[MadMayo]

Caught 30 yesterday and 26 two days before that off the cliffs on down patrick head in Mayo. Just used a beach caster and flies....... jumping on the rod this weather.... should be good til October!!

you must be as full as a tick madmayo

I'm full to the gills, i had mackerel for dinner the last three evenings, fried the first evening boiled with a bit of cream the second and beabequed the third, i should have went to the butcher to see if he would swap them for a few steaks!! Its nice as a treat but not every day. I might have a smoked mackerel sandwich now.

[Puckoon]

Love the smoked mackerel myself. Any of you boys tried it sashimi style? It's the fishiest tasting one of the lot, and you need to get a fresh piece - but its cracking all the same. Skin and all down the hatch, tis lovely.

[Bud Wiser]

They arrived in Dalkey yesterday at around half three.  Hoping to hire out a boat today and have a crack at it if its not too windy. Does anyone think that sea angling is gone to the dogs altogether for cod and ray etc (I say cod and ray cause its easy to spell) or other types than a few years ago?

Met a Kildare girl there yesterday and she was the best (mackErel) hooker I seen in action for a while. Asked her was she happy with her catch and she said that,  being from Kildare, there were a lot of bigger fish to fry in the next few weeks than mackerel.

[Lecale2]

That's some catch alright!

[Cde]

and the fish is not bad either

[spuds]

No fishing equipment there if she likes I ll give her my rod

[Bud Wiser]

Down in Greystones they are catching them off the beach with beachcasters.



Dalkey would not let boats out today so next week it is.

[MadMayo]

I'd ate mackerel til the cows come home!!

[Denn Forever]

Did you know something Bud?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11062674

Why is Britain braced for a mackerel war?By Andrew McFarlane

BBC News Magazine


Why a 'war' over mackerel?
Britain is said to be bracing itself for a re-run of its Cod Wars with Iceland - except this time the fish being fought over is mackerel. Yet, until recently, few were interested in a fish regarded as unclean.

As far as fishing is concerned, relations between the UK and Iceland have been as turbulent as the waters of the North Atlantic where their disputes have been played out.

So it is perhaps no surprise to see a British MEP, Conservative Struan Stevenson, calling for an EU-wide blockade of Icelandic boats - along with those from the Faroe Islands - in a row over quotas.

However, while rows in the past have been over the coveted and dwindling stocks of cod, this time the nations are clashing over mackerel.