Crabfishing for Mackeral

[me]

Lately I went mackeral fishing. It was quite sunny. So I checked the tide times and went. I was using worm. I kept getting bites but they were crabs not mackeral. I caught about 20 crabs and 0 Mackeral in the end. :mad:

[H.A.]

Nathan, Nathan ......

 

mackerel don't eat worms unless they look like leetle fishees ......

 

suggest spinning a small lure 1oz/float fishing with a size 4 hook and lean strip of mackerel skin or fevers .....

 

oh dear!

[jeepster]

seems you have found the only bait that mackerel wont take!

[Scapanapper]

I think you would be lucky to find any mackerel at this time of year. I am willing to be corrected by those in the tropical sooth.

 

Cheers

Scapa

[me]

Thanks for the info!!!!

[Alan Taylor]

Nathan:

I caught about 20 crabs and 0 Mackeral in the end. :mad:

The zero Mackeral is no surprise but just what sort of crabs did you catch :confused: If they were the sort that you can use for bait for Bass etc it could be worth freezing them or keeping them in a tank.

See if you can identify them or better still post a picture. Could be a little bait gold mine

I saw that you were :mad: , don't be, you could have hit on a supply of bait that will produce good fish, always look on the brighter side of life, bedump bedump (song )

 

Alan(nl

 

Alan(nl)

 

[ 13. January 2004, 09:08 PM: Message edited by: Alan Taylor ]

[spasor]

Scapanapper. Get ready to be corrected. Mackeral never leave the S.coast! The shoals move offshore, but the odd individuals can always be caught. Not in sufficient numbers to warrant targeting them I`ll agree.

Paul.

[JONNYX]

HI

i'm on the lizard, cornwall.

yup were still catching mackerel and gar from the rocks down here, top sport on 2 lb b.s.

 

large mackerel shoals were seen recently being bait balled by porpoise in falmouth bay and a couple of commercial handliners are still working, so they are about.

[Jim Roper]

There is some sort of ceremony around the first mackerel caught out of Lyme Regis each year. It is nearly always on January 1st, I believe.

[H.A.]

They don't arrive in The Solent area till around the beginning of May. Peak is probably August, but I have a record of a mild autumn when I caught one from the beach on Dec 6th.

 

Nathan, read up on them ..... they are mostly surface feeders on whitebait/small fry .... you occasionally catch them when bottom fishing on the retrieve, when they mistake a shiny hook or ragworm for a fish.

 

Hope that helps.