Thursday, 5 September 2013

Mackerel Fishing.




So September is finally here, the holidaymakers go home, the kids go back to school, I get a couple of days off from work, and I finally get a chance to take izi mackerel fishing which I have been looking forward to all summer.

Down by the harbour there is a mackerel fishing boat that sets off three times a day during the holiday but now the season is coming to a close, it sets off just once a day. Today was a great day to pick because it was one of the clearest hottest days of the summer.





The trip costs £8 per person and is an hour and a half trip, they provide everything you need and you can pretty much keep what you catch so it is a great deal. We were not expecting to catch many but we wanted to give it a go anyway. 






There were 14 other people waiting to go on the trip, so we got divided up into two boats. once we had set sail we made a short trip just out of the harbour side and then were shown how to use our lines and began. It was only a couple of minutes before the couple next to us reeled in the line and had caught there first mackerel, we were not sure if we had a bite but we had a look anyway and surprisingly we had caught one too.  The fisherman then came along snapped its head back to break its neck, threw it in a bucket and then we tossed the hook back in the water to try again.







Over the course of an hour and a half we were catching quite a few fish, at the beginning we were keeping everyone we caught but after we had a couple the fisherman told us to just grab the hook and shake them free if they were small ones so it became more of a challenge to catch decent sized ones that were big enough to keep. Towards the end I did manage to catch quite a big one, the biggest one of the day so when that went in the bucket I made sure everyone knew that was going to be my dinner for the day.

At the end of the trip he got us all a bag and handed out the fish evenly (making sure I had the big one I caught) and we went away feeling proud as we had 14 decent sized mackerel we had caught.



 



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