Secondly it needs to be quite light, after a while constant casting can tire your arms quickly. Holiday makers can use a telescopic rod if needed something like THIS is ideal, it reduces the size needed when traveling with the rest of the holiday gear. Serious anglers will most likely already have a selection of rods to choose from, again foot is the optimal size.
I have in the past used carp rods which have performed very well as my Mackerel bashing rod. A 3 ounce lead attached to Mackerel feathers or Sabaki rigs , cast out and allowed to drop should help you gauge what depth they are at. If they are close to the surface swap the lead for a two ounce, it stops sinking as quick and is a little easier on your arms.
Once you have found them cast away! If you find you can feel the fish attempting to take the rigs but are not hooking them, reduce the hook size of the rigs you are using. It can be that you are casting into what are known as Joey Mackerel, these are younger and smaller fish. Smaller hooks will help increase your catch numbers. You can also try float fishing for Mackerel, slivers of the silver section of Mackerel belly hooked around 5 foot under your float.
I have had good success with a string of feathers underneath. You can also catch a good number of Pollock using this method in the right places. There are literally hundreds of thousands of fish for the pleasure Angler to target around our shores. Unfortunately the large commercial fishing vessels from the UK and EU pulling them out at an alarming rate.
If you do catch, please only take what you intend to eat or keep for fishing bait. Too often I have seen holiday makers full of good intentions leave bags of Mackerel next to bins, they simply bag up all that are caught.
If your hobby is shore fishing, then you are going to be spoilt for choice with Anglesey being an Island! Anglesey has some amazing locations for fishing, along with some spectacular scenery as well. It is impossible to name them all here, but we can certainly name a few of the more popular ones.
Below are a few of the better shore fishing locations on Anglesey, for further information may we suggest one of the local tackle shops or twitter! There are a few common rules of thumb to follow when fishing for Mackerel and after that you will be on your merry way with some fresh fish for the BBQ.
For the purpose of this blog we will concentrate on show caught fish as opposed to boat and kayak fishing. Tides and current After just returning this morning form a semi productive rock fishing session on Anglesey for mackerel, I confirm that they are in on the west coast but not in the large numbers, as of yet.
Spring tides are creeping up again now and will be full on the 13th, however the largest tide of July will occur on the 15th. Large tides can play a vital role in your catch rates on shore angling, as the current generated by the large tides spurs the fish like mackerel to feed more and move around more also. This is not uncommon to other species too, spring tides can often produce the best results for a variety pf species all year around, again it boils down the the oceanographic components of tide and current bringing more food to the fish.
Tides also act as motorways for the fish. They use the free energy of the tides to move from place to place conserving energy as they go. So this mornings session was quite classic for tides and times. I fished 2 hours up until high tide 10am on a 5. So the tides where big, current was strong, almost peak current occurs an hour before high water. So I positioned myself on a peak tide and peak current time.
Tackle Tackle is the most simple of all components to understand. Keep it simple! Most lures will work for mackerel, there are a host of types such as white feathers, flashers, tin foil, coloured feathers, small plastic fish, Sabikis and many many more. You can even make your own using white electrical tube cut and hung over your hook as we used to as children.
I stick to 4 hooks, some people use upwards of 8 however, this puts a tremendous strain on reels and line, and ultimately it will have a damaging effect on your kit hauling in eight mackerel at a time from the shore.
I used spinning rods for Mackerel again. My rod of choice right now is a Savage bushwhacker z and it handles 4 big mackerel at a time easily. I am not the most delicate of anglers and it suits my style well! Reel today was an Abu Soron 50 and today, I was not on braided line but monofilament line 15lb straight through to the trace.
Technique Where I was fishing today near Ty Croes on Anglesey, the bait fish are shoaling just beneath your feet. This is important to note, as most anglers way over cast the fish they seek. I have learnt this from two sources. Old fisherman who know way more than me and snorkelling on the foreshore.
Its easily done, but try to keep your range shorter than you would for your long range beach fishing. They are under your feet! Look for tidal edges, which look like smooth patches on the water that is where the fish can be sitting.
Cast into these areas and test. We would go fishing around porth daffacrch for afternoons together. Catching all sorts fish such as Mackerel, plaice and gurnards.
This in turn, was one of the main things that inspired me to start fishing properly as very young teenager. Those early fishing sessions at the age of six and seven where the catalyst to me be becoming a life long angler and a lover of the sport. It consequently led me to my current profession, which is a marine geophysicist, working as a consultant for various companies across Europe.
This early acquaintance with the ocean and Mackerel fishing also inspired me to study at Marine Geology and ocean Science at Bangor University and learn some of the most beautiful and amazing earth sciences. We covered oceanography, marine biology, physics, geology and all of the natural sciences which still to this day, are some of the most fascinating topics for me to learn. Mackerel fishing was probably one of the first styles of fishing, that I learned to do as a young child, and it really is still as one of the most enjoyable fishing styles that I do today.
I often start fishing for mackerel in early months in April, and I fish all the way through till September and October for them, when the fish then move off into the deeper Atlantic waters on their return legs of their migration.
Landing large hauls has its down sides to stocks and in essence shows greed, much wiser to take just enough for you and your family and maybe a few for the neighbours, enough said. If your searching for the places to find them, look for strong tidal currents on the edges of large bays where you get back eddies. They seem to follow the large tidal currents that circulate around the bays. Deep water location are one of my favourites to go for mackerel, areas such as Porth Daffarch that have both fast flowing water and deep water at close reach will produce good catches for you.
Re read the points above and see that each one of the places below has both deep water from a rock platform and a strong tidal stream. Porth Daffach — Go explore the rock destinations , most platforms produce good catch in the summer. Rocky coast — Can be a tricky one, but some late season produce off the rocks too. The it comes to fish resources, they are not finite and its very import to take only what you can eat and maybe a few for bait if your a bait angler.
The start of the season began in earnest, from what I hear in Holyhead breakwater where there were large mackerel being caught there. My top spots have not been producing good catches as of yet. The month of June is kind of feels about right to be honest. I remember from historical evidence from my fishing diaries that mid May was often the time of year that we would start catching them in earnest around holy Island and Anglesey.
The bays around Trearrdur where the hotspots back then, but they have changed somewhat now. The catch reports from the local fishermen are seeming to echo the same results right now.
I woke up early and decided to head down to my local spot on Holy island to try my luck because the water was glass calm. The wind was down at three miles an hour, it was a very warm breeze and high water this morning was at 6am, local time Holyhead harbour. I arrived on site at am. HW was at am, so I was an hour and a half after HW.
We were on medium sized tides 28ft and there was a half moon, already high in the sky. I assumed that the tidal stream would be sufficiently low enough to be able to fish this specific spot that I go to. Unfortunately I think I timed it wrong, and from fellow anglers.
Low water was when they where catching at this mark. It can vary greatly. But you have to go a few sessions to dial it in, especially from the shore. On the boat you can move from spot to spot in seconds and move with the fish. I caught a few Mackerel nonetheless and it was good to see and touch base with the local wildlife life, flora and fauna to see how things are developing on this spot on the island.
June is a fantastic month of fishing on the island, all the bait fish have now grown to a certain size and they are becoming quite obvious prey for larger fish.
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