Why the Mackerel fascination??

[Paddlesac]

What do you class as "off the beaten track"?

[Scoot]

What do you class as "off the beaten track"?

Floating about 2 miles out. Not many people out there.

[Geodark]

Nothing comes close to its fighting ability especially on my ul lrf rod,SO much fun off the out the way rock marks,its the closest I will get to catching tuna lol

Aye, not quite LRF, but got myself a light 5g - 20g rod and am in the process of building up a collection of lures and spinner - looking forward to chucking a few off the rocks at St Mary's and up in Eyemouth.

[Codqueen]

We love Mackerel fishing and go regularly, what Mark was asking was why do people suddenly fish for them and never fish at any other time of the year? Also they don't really seem interested in the fishing, more the drinking etc.

We keep away from the like of Gourock Pier, which is mobbed in summer and travel across the Clyde to Strone, Blairmore or Tighnabruaich. Can be busy occasionally, but only once in four years have we encountered drunks lads.

[fozally]

I will never forget the night on the end of Roker Pier when a bunch of lads turned up with two slabs of Carling, a disposable BBQ and deck chairs. Oh they also had some fishing gear. One had a six foot fibre glass boat rod from the 70's and the old Penn boat multiplier (with about 50 yards of thick mono). Image my joy when he had a full set of daylights on and a 6oz weight casting right next to me and getting a birds nest every cast with lead flying all over everyone's lines falling into the water about 10yrds out. Just to put cream on the cake he caught the odd Macky !

[kevricho]

mackerel

Mackerel are ahard fighting fish on light tackle.Only fish I, ve caught to fight harder on light tackle is mullet and I only got one . So I love mackerel. Anyway there's no reports of owt on forum to comment on

[LiamNE]

simple really, it's almost guaranteed consistent catching, good sport, low cost, convenient and fun.

Pretty much says it all.
I also think its a lot to do with owt for nowt as outcast said
A lot mackie bashers also think that catching 50 mackerel makes you a good fisherman and they will boast about it.

I was a fishing god on Horden beach last summer, easy 100 people fishing for mackie but I was the only one catching due to casting distance. I'm not an amazing caster, but they seemed to be about 100 yards out and I was hitting them right on the drop, nobody else could get to them. I was giving fishing tips to half a dozen lads that day...

You should of seen all the chavs laughing at my spinning technique before I started catching
That was the same day a lad literally walked in front of me, not 2 feet to the side, literally in front of me.

[kevricho]

they are in

Heard someone got 75 mackerel off Roker yesterday, enough said I think, they must've been cooked in the carrier bags before he got home.What a waste. That's what I hate the mass slaughter for nowt,:

[codhunter40]

Owt for nowt!! Hit the nail on the head lads.. Im not talking about anglers who enjoy fishing for Mackeral and take a few for themselves for bait or the bbq.. Its the once a year loons who fill bin bags of them, then as many have said boast about their "acheivement!" these people have NO respect for fish or fishing..

[g.ordon]

yer, I was on the 42 mark a few year ago and this polish halfwit was coming off of the end and when behind me his Morrison's bag burst, half cooked macky everywhere and he tried to put them back in the bag but the bag was ripped open so they kept falling back out. anyway after about 5 minutes of this I went over and gave him a bin liner (I always have a one in the bag in case), he managed to get them cleared up and in the bag but then insisted I have a one for helping him, I mean how many ways is there of telling someone to f##k off, all I gave him the bag for was to get the f##cker out of the way anyway

[LiamNE]

I went over and gave him a bin liner (I always have a one in the bag in case),

Brilliant Gordon haha - and I thought I was the only one who took one "just in case!"

[bd500]

mackie bashing

With it being nearly "mackie bashing" time of the year again, I am just wondering what it is about these fish that attract people, who don't fish from one year to the next, to appear "en masse" on piers near you?

Don't get me wrong, I love fishing for Mackerel, but choose piers well off the beaten track, to try to ensure we are not swamped with the fishing element we all want to avoid.

Why do guys who almost never fish, appear out the woodwork and go "mental" for a few weeks during the summer?

Drink, swear, cast like Lynn, take no account of others, but just go mad for Mackerel?

If they enjoy fishing why don't they fish at other times?

It is a mystery to me to be honest. Any ideas why guys?

HI.I can't afford the time or money to fish all year round. I catch what i can use and then go home (taking the odd bag full of rubbish for the bin) And there's plenty of that.

[Bushwhacker]

yer, I was on the 42 mark a few year ago and this polish halfwit was coming off of the end and when behind me his Morrison's bag burst, half cooked macky everywhere and he tried to put them back in the bag but the bag was ripped open so they kept falling back out. anyway after about 5 minutes of this I went over and gave him a bin liner (I always have a one in the bag in case), he managed to get them cleared up and in the bag but then insisted I have a one for helping him, I mean how many ways is there of telling someone to f##k off, all I gave him the bag for was to get the f##cker out of the way anyway

At least that "Polish halfwit" as you call him will eat all the fish he catches,even the undersize ones.
I have seen plenty of local idiots catch loads of Macky and then waste them over the years....

[OuTkast76]

HI.I can't afford the time or money to fish all year round. I catch what i can use and then go home (taking the odd bag full of rubbish for the bin) And there's plenty of that.

Does that mean you only fish for mackerel? If so then how do you get time to fish for them and not all year round? As for money I assume you mean on bait as you must have tackle...Mackerel is used for bait so why not use them that you catch?

[Winton]

Al people de is whine about macky bashers yet you all gan a be bashing the macky wben it comes in