Mackerel Love Metals! - Mackerel Fishing 

Yes, it's a shame they're all so small, how big do they get in scandinavia? down here 40cm is a fantastic size

@@weaverflytyer yes, 40 cm is considered as a very good size. 35 cm is common

I've never really thought of blue as being a good lure colour, but I'll have to give it another look savage gear do a really nice little 9cm plastic sandeel that I might pick up

down here there has been a recent shift, they are arriving two months late but sticking around two months longer, they've been caught on the shore in october-november

Everything has been about a month late NW Scottish highlands this year, but recently I’ve been catching some of the biggest mackerel I’ve ever seen

It's basically the only deep water mark in my area so everyone flocks to it, only other option is to buy a kayak...!

when you have a huge number of fish using a large single hook really picks out the specimen sizes, thats pretty much the only reason, when pickings are slim a smaller treble is better

@@weaverflytyer Thank you for your helpful reply Sir. I am much obliged!

Chesil beach

It looked like the eastern end of Hastings.

There is a pretty interesting problem with returning mackerel, they are extremely fragile and any sort of abrasion on their skin will kill them within 30 hours (this is why they have those strange stripes, so they don't come in contact with each other in a shoal). So if I actually do catch a very small mackerel and want to stay within the law, I'd have to return the poor thing alive back into the ocean and leave it to have a very painful death. The law really needs modernising but luckily so far all of my mackerel have been over the size limit mainly because I am using a fairly large hook.

@@weaverflytyer this has been proven to be false ,most fishermen use it as an excuse, i appreciate your method using metals with a single large hook,on a light lure rod ,that's how it should be done,not like some of your close neighbours they look like they've got beachcasting setups,complete overkill

These were all in the legal size, besides Mackerel don't really survive being handled and returned to the sea, so yes I could have returned them but I assure you they would have had a very long and painful death. The best thing you can do is use very large spoons/hooks to pick out the big fish from the shoals which is what this video is about.

it's not as crowded as it looks in the video and usually there is more than enough mackerel to go around with most people taking home 10-20 fish... just not on this day it was unusually slim pickings

this is true! thanks for watching