Had a good day today on mackeral between Gay Head and Nomans. Continuous bite from 8:30 AM to 11:30 am, at which time we went looking for sea bass without success. If you go, however, retie your rigs on #20-30 line (we used flurocarbon, easy to do, just tie three surgeon double loops 18" apart). The fish wouldn't touch commercially tied stuff on heavy mono. They liked silver tubes (Sabiki (sp?) rigs also worked). Most fish were deep. Caught lots of sea herring as well, very few dogfish, no bass, cod, or sea bass. Go have some fun, good luck.

What does a Mackeral look like? Does anyone have a picture?

Google search...spelled Mackerel

Irridescent green with black vertical bars running into pearl silver cream white

Numbskull,
thank you for the report. I was just wonderingbaout those little guys.
i didnt think Sabiki's were strong enough to hold a few mack's though.

Numbskull,
thank you for the report. I was just wonderingbaout those little guys.
i didnt think Sabiki's were strong enough to hold a few mack's though.


# 10 sabiki will work
Mac rigs are better though

I imagine they should be showing any day now in CCBay?