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Mackerel 2022

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New mackerel season started.
Out Saturday with wife caught 2 keepers and 13 releasers
47 pollock release

Out Sunday caught and released 13 mackerel
Caught and release 55 pollock. (18" pollock released)
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Out this morning pass McNabs lighthouse
Caught 13 keepers and 66 releasers
Caught and release 1 cod and 27 pollock
Water temp 12.4 C
Caught 3 mackerel in the Chedabucto Bay last night, all around the size of ~20cm. Haven't seen any schools of large fish yet.
Out yesterday pass McNabs lighthouse caught 17 keepers and 35 releasers
Caught and released 43 pollock. Mackerel were on top of the pollock.
3 ft swells and very rough seas. Then the wind came up. I decided to call it a day
Water temp 12.2 C
Out today at McNabs lighthouse caught 7 keepers and 29 releasers
Caught and released 40 pollock
Water temp 13.4 C
Out today
Caught 20 keepers [9 off McNabs lighthouse, 11 up from Sleepy Cove] and 29 releasers.
Caught and released 49 pollock
Water Temp 13.6
Canso Causeway

June 20th - 30minutes fishing - 2 keepers, only person fishing
June 23rd - 30 minutes fishing - 12 undersized, big school in. A pair of others fishing, catching small fish every cast
Out again pass McNabs island lighthouse with a friend
Caught 40 keepers and 117 releasers
Caught and release 1 small cod and 1 herring
Caught alot of pollock. Friend kept 3 pollck for dinner
Water temp 16 C
Out again pass McNabs lighthouse yesterday
Caught 4 keepers and 89 releasers
Caught and release 45 pollock
Caught and release 4" baby cod
Water temp 16.5
Out today
Caught 20 keepers and 71 releasers
Caught and release 3 pollock
Water temp 16.4 C
okay, so I am going to fish for mackerel ,too today at the wharf of dewolf park . Alot of people go there for mackerel .Also I use lures for them
okay, so I am going to fish for mackerel ,too today at the wharf of dewolf park . Alot of people go there for mackerel .Also I use lures for them
How did you make out Jordan1 at Dewolf park wharf
Out yesterday
Off McNabs lighthouse 0 mackerel
Sleepy Cove 3 keepers 4 releasers
Between Lawlors island and McNabs island 6 keepers 3 releasers
Water temp 11.4 C
Out today with my son
0 mackerel off McNabs light house 8 pollock released
23 keepers and 43 releasers at Sleepy Cove and between Lawtors and McNab island
water temp11.6 C
That is great! They are starting to run. I am coming that way to catch some my self. Is it true that for recreation, you can only get 20 per person...or does that mean 20 a day per person..


Out today
Caught 20 keepers and 71 releasers
Caught and release 3 pollock
Water temp 16.4 C
Out yesterday between Lawlor and McNabs island
Caught 13 keepers and 28 releasers.
Water temp 11.6 C
That is great! They are starting to run. I am coming that way to catch some my self. Is it true that for recreation, you can only get 20 per person...or does that mean 20 a day per person..
20 per person per day. No dropping them off and going back out to catch more
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