Hayling Yesterday 15/07/08 Pics

seawasp · Member Joined: May 30, 2008 Posts: 33

Went up hayling on a whim yesterday with my mate joe, Had no luck catchin mackrel this year. Well when we got there they were all jumping around in the surf, we feathered for about 2 hours and had easily 150+ mackrel. They were chasing the whitebait around.

Joe may well have lost a decent bass, while he was retrieving the feathers the rod bent over and his line snapped.

Could of had more mackie they were still goin when we left but there was no room left in the freezer!!!

Someone was fishing with a ledger and live joey and had 2 nice bass so goin back up today to try and get some bass.

Tight lines

PM if you want location "not telling the commercial fisherman"

Some ugly mug shots for you - I may have got a bit sunburnt ha!

youwin · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

blimey loadsa fish suprise

- hope you and ya mate use/eat em though and they don't get wasted - i was chatting to a fella last sat about macky, i was over there (hayling) looking for some limpet at langstone side - anyway i got some good tips from him, certainly seemed to know his stuff. I'll PM ya and we can swap info winking

seawasp · Member Joined: May 30, 2008 Posts: 33

Yeh we might eat a few but will save a fortune on bait, plus the small mackrel are killer bait for bass whole

limpetboy · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject:

they look small,went to hove beach this morning and they were smaller than them but loads of them right in almost on the beach, too small to take feathers,we changed rigs for bass but no luck crying

eccles · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject:

Bit wasteful isn't it catching that many? Why not just catch a dozen and then go back to proper fishing?

rabbi2 · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

There are some there no bigger than your hand in the photo. Could these not have been returned? sad

Charlie_PFC · Member Joined: Nov 04, 2007 Posts: 43 Location: Nutbourne

Hello lads, I was the one with the Bass last night. Will try and post the pictures when I get them off my Dad.

Did you see the seal just after I spoke to you?

Looks like you will have plenty of bait for a while, hope you have a big freezer.

centro · Member Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Southsea

There were tons of mackeral down there last night. I used a spinner on light gear - great fun! I stopped at 5 fish (for the table) threw a few joeys back. 150 seems overkill to me.

bassfly · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: bass

If you had plugged for bass you would have caught 4lb plus bass.
Friend had 3-4 good sized bass on plugs and chug bugs.

night-fisher · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject:

I was under the impression that the minimum limit for shore caught mackerel was 30cm / 12". From the photo there are many there that look way undersize and should have been returned.

berus · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject:

I still haven't nipped down to Hayling to give the wedges a good workout - hopefully the weather and work will be in my favour next week....

Mark

sniggle · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

Southern sea fisheries minimum size for mackerel 20cm-7.9"

dazzaman · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject:

Just out of curiosity,if the NFSA have size limits in place which i believe to be enforcable,how can different coasts have differing sizes?
As for the mackeral in the photo,looks like they don`t even meet the said 20cms/7.9ins
Please enlighten,cheers Darren

weebster · Member Joined: Jun 12, 2008 Posts: 57

you have to be very careful when returning mackerel,if you handle them with bare hands you will have damaged the fish and released to die slowly over the next 24-48hrs,so please if returning handle with a damp cloth big grin

mrix · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: re: