r/cork • u/Apprehensive-Swim587 South Cork • 1d ago

Cork City Mackrel on the quays?

Can any one verify if this is legit - seems pretty strange for October to see mackerel

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u/smalaki North Cork 1d ago

> seems pretty strange

would you say... it's pretty fishy

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u/ChromakeyDreamcoat82 1d ago

Cut the carp willya?

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u/Impressive_Light_229 1d ago

Talking a load of pollock this fella

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u/Anotherolddog 1d ago

Ah Jasus, you're codding me.

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u/Impressive_Light_229 1d ago

Haha was only pollan your leg

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u/PrincessFister 1d ago

Ah jees, I can never think of fish puns. If ye think of any more, please let minnow

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u/Anotherolddog 17h ago

Well, someone's having a whale of a time. OK, not a fish but it's a big one, er, pun.

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u/heavyusername2 1d ago

The skate of them

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u/Bulky_Neck_7879 1d ago

Know your plaice boy.

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u/heavyusername2 1d ago

Clam down will ya no need for that carp

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u/Anotherolddog 23h ago

Just don't get crabby.

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u/TufnelAndI 23h ago

For fucks hake, these puns are terrible.

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u/Impressive_Light_229 23h ago

Leave him alone you big tope

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u/TheRonocon 1d ago

Yes!! Fish puns!! I don't need a rhyme or a reason. I just go with the flow, seize the oppor-tuna-ty, and do it all for the halibut!!

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u/OwnFish9020 1d ago

I remember herring about this before

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u/Deadbolt17 1d ago

You were in the right plaice at least

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u/Caleb_Crowdad 1d ago

Outstanding!

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u/YarrPotatoes-Bar443 1d ago

Ah stop talking pollocks

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u/RichieTB 1d ago

Thats a typical sight for harbours around the country at this time of year, peak mackerel season

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u/Apprehensive-Swim587 South Cork 1d ago

I always thought july - September would be peak season. Haven't seen it October myself but thanks for the info!

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u/Dapper-Second-8840 1d ago

When we get weather like we had this year it's quite common for the mackerel to be in now. I've caught them in November off a frost-covered pier!

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u/soc96j 1d ago

Having lived abroad now for a few years, its great to hear the accent.

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u/FewNagginsBeGrand 1d ago

So cork 😅

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u/TheHames72 18h ago

I miss it. I live abroad and over the years my accent has softened so much that it’s almost gone (except after a few scoops, obv).

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u/Alternative-Jelly947 1d ago

It’s just sprat. Mackerel or something else are agitating the shoal.

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u/wh0else 1d ago

I think mackerel have chased sprat in and are feeding on them

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u/ImpressForeign 1d ago

too big a splash for sprat

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u/olendra 1d ago

I sent a video I took earlier around 6pm to a professional fisherman I know and he told me it looked like a type of small fish to him based on the splash, behaviour and the little you can see of them,  so more sprat than mackerel. But he also said that as a fisherman, this would be a very positive sighting to him, he would interpret it as a sign of vitality of the shoal more than an agitated shoal.

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u/caring-renderer 1d ago

It could be Herring , I know over the last few years a friend of mine said they break like that too in youghal around this time of year.

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u/corkboy 1d ago

Sprat above mackerel below

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u/Irishwol 1d ago

I thought you meant it had flooded again

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u/Apprehensive_Cat4448 1d ago edited 1d ago

I went down to the quays an hour after as I saw this video but unfortunately no luck. I’d say the shoal had moved back out the harbour with the tide

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u/Apprehensive-Swim587 South Cork 1d ago

How unfortunate maybe you might see some tomorrow

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u/Imwonkyalso 1d ago

Probably mullet looking for a sewer pipe

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u/TufnelAndI 23h ago

Mackerel, more.

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u/olendra 1d ago edited 1d ago

I saw it earlier in daylight and sent a video to a fisherman I know, he told me it looked like a type of small fish based on the behaviour and splashes, probably less than 20 cm, so I was not thinking of a mackerel but it may be hard to tell based on a video.

Edit: someone said sprat in comments, it would match his observations.

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u/Dapper-Second-8840 1d ago

Well yes but the reason they are doing this is because they're being attacked by a shoal of predators in this case most likely mackerel. The mackerel boil we anglers all love to see isn't the actual mackerel, it's whatever they're trying to murder desperately trying to escape.

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u/JackWade-Headhunter 1d ago

And Awayyyyy

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u/crlthrn 1d ago

Brilliant series of programs!

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u/JackWade-Headhunter 18h ago

It’s fantastic! The GF and I have been watching it and we can’t stop saying that quote to each other.

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u/Holocene98 1d ago

We get a couple fishing rods going lads and meet by city hall?

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u/Natural-Hunter-3 1d ago

Thanks for the heads up I'm grabbing my fishing gear!

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u/SmilePuzzleheaded498 1d ago

This is so cool!

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u/Which-Cow6919 1d ago

They’ll soon disappear when they see the state of the economy

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u/Additional_Shift2593 1d ago

There was a heap of fish mushed into the road outside paddy wagon tours tonight at the bottom of st Patrick's hill. This video explains it 😊👍🏻

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u/Longjumping_Fig_6959 22h ago

Yes I saw them on Thursday night on Albert quay, I couldn’t make out what typeof fish

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u/Novel-Expert-7793 19h ago

i brought my rod down too see what they are and it’s herring

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u/Andrela 18h ago

Saw an absolute unit of a seal out by de valera bridge. He must have been feeding well

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u/raddoc12 14h ago

On holiday in Clonakilty last year I asked a local fishmonger if I could have some locally caught mackerel and he told me there had been no mackerel landed locally for 5 years!