Any Mackerel about yet?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:00 pm

Does anybody Know if the Mackerel have started to turn up yet? Is anywhere fishing well around Torbay at the moment? Seen an awful lot of bored fishermen around Slapton the last few weeks. Given the lack of catch reports recently I'm guessing no

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:43 pm

take that as a no then.sure they aint that far away ,usually end of april will see them start making a apperance.

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:24 pm

No mate, water is too cold and I have never seen them before the end of May not April like the other fella said.

Member Joined: May 15, 2008 Posts: 94 Location: South West

Last year I caught quite a few off Torquay at the end of April/beginning of May. Very nice weather I recall. So hopefully not long to wait!

Member Joined: Feb 21, 2010 Posts: 6

just finnished watching Trawlermen, 500 ton in one net there won't be any left soon............

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:08 am

As with all things folk have to make a living and unfortunately Peter has to be robbed to pay Paul. It's not a job that I would like to do. We do have a few trawler men who are members and they can see both sides of the coin so to speak.

God knows what will happen when the conservation zones come into force, just who will it affect. Although I have notice that there is nothing planned for Scotland.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Cheers
keith big grin

Member Joined: Mar 01, 2009 Posts: 6 Location: torquay

I was catching mackerel last april, too. I`ll never forget it because i saw my first basking shark close up, down at Long Quarry. I mean no more than 6-8ft away from my mate and myself. It was huge ! and right in to the rocks
happy

Regular Joined: Jul 29, 2008 Posts: 403 Location: Jedburgh

rabbi2 wrote:

God knows what will happen when the conservation zones come into force, just who will it affect. Although I have notice that there is nothing planned for Scotland.

Dont know too much about conservation zones but going by what i have read elsewhere i am sure that there are some coming to us as well

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:48 pm

the water temps are still well below what they usually are for this time of year so unless we suddenly get a stream of warmer water come towards us in the southwest we wont get many mackerel for ages and will see fewer bass then the last few seasons.

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:40 am

Mackies usually turn up around the end of may around scarborough but last year we didnt see any in numbers, as for the conservation zones that are being set up they are nothing to do with preserving fish stocks it is to do with preserving the sea bed and the grasses and corals ect that live there without theres the fish have nothing to feed on but i aint going into it as i for one i think that beam trawling should be totaly banned as a way of fishing and yes that statement will upset someone but thats my way of thinking

Dave big grin

Member Joined: Jun 21, 2008 Posts: 14 Location: Plymouth

Caught half a dozen past the Mewey yesterday, little while longer and we should bo OK. Gave the boat a run and put some feathers in for a few minutes.

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:46 pm

There are some on the South Coast!! But not in huge numbers, only the odd one or two been caught.

Member Joined: May 11, 2008 Posts: 78 Location: Cornwall

They're back..... They have been deep but are now showing up nearer the surface in the usual early marks so very soon they will be everywhere and also so will the tinsel chuckers out to murder them all.

Member Joined: Oct 14, 2008 Posts: 6

jacko69 wrote:

conservation zones that are being set up they are nothing to do with preserving fish stocks it is to do with preserving the sea bed and the grasses and corals ect that live there without them, the fish have nothing to feed on

Dave big grin

i agree to what dave has said !

conservation zones are about conservation of the sea bed, look what happen to the great barrier reef in oz, destroy, now the most part of the barrier reef are being protected & conserved, the fish and the plant life are coming back in droves, bring on the conservation zones, remember most fish species will return to the breading ground year on year,

some out there will have to come up with a new way of thinking so that a living can be made from the sea, by protecting all fish stocks world wide.

ric

Joined: Jul 31, 2009 Posts: 3

Been catching mackerel over the last couple of weeks from the Lizard so they must be on their way up to you.