Mackerel fishing from a boat.

Third world fishermen, innovative by necessity, use the following, if you can see it, it's a bean can or bit of pipe, lead to stabilise it, the important thing is the selection of holes at the tail end to swim it out to the side..

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Thanks for the comments Fisherman. Was down on the boat just off Falmouth a couple of weeks ago and catching pilchards / sardines on light feathers normally required for bait catching. Fishfinder indicated the shoals. It was a first but the fish were way nicer eating IMO than the mackerel bycatch.

Did try smoking a couple of mackerel in the chimenia when I got back home and they were good for a first attempt. I salted one fish overnight and did the other unsalted. Next time I will salt them all but less than the first one which I treated much as you would to make bacon. Made it a bit too dried and salty but still better than the untreated.

But I am lookingforward to more pilchards. Any suggestions as to techniquefor them?
 
Thank you, one and all, so many great tips and, ideas. They'll enjoy making these as much as the fishing, but never as much as the fish!!!
 
My Dad ran an angling boat here in Ilfracombe for many years,back in the early sixties he came home and said he had talked to a Cornish fisherman and they used what we have always called 'a Chinaman' for catching mackerel.
It was a small surfboard about 4 inches long and worked the same way as the ones described here. Always wondered where the name came from, anyone know?
 
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