Bring on global warming, Macks, herring and scad !!!!! today in dunmore

Well, arrived nice and early on a foggy and cold morning at dunmore east, launched the boat to a nice swell running in from the s/w west, but little wind.
visibility was about 500 meters so we cautiously set of for the 3 mile rock, east of hook head.
As we got further offshore the vis improved a little, but it was still cold and damp, and now with a nice f3 northerly to keep us warm.
Started with general drifts around the rough ground in the hope of picking up some codling, got most everything else except codling, with a few nice ballens coming onboard and a smattering of other stuff, like ling and pouting.
Moved off the reef and we picked up a few small codling. Decided to head out to a wreck, where we might pick up some decent pollock, but as with many fishing trips, we never got there for a while.
En-route, i noticed a rather large paint came up on the fish finder !!!! Hmmm, thats not a wreck, too big, on with the sabikis, and up comes a full house of lovely herring !
Seirt and eddie soon joined in with full houses and we followed the shoal for a while, and to our amazment, up comes joey mackerel, and then larger mackerel in twos and threes!!!! IN JANUARY
At this point eddie made a stupid comment on the boat, " i suppose jam jar rayner will pick up a scad, ha ha , " A picture paints a thousand words !!!! :doh: :doh: , yes on the next drop up comes a lovely little scad, IN JANUARY with the water temp at 7.2 deg C
So all those global warming theorys, bring them on, prehaps, tuna next !!
A great day, considering the bond chilling fog, we did get to the wreck, and pulled a few fish of it, but nothing large, headed home, and tried for the cod again, but no luck , so a good day.

Well done lads sounds like a great day, gettin macks in january whats the world comin ta

very good lads handy top up to the frezer at this time of the year.
where did ye hit the mackerel?pitty about the codling not a good sign.
thanks screeming got them stickers pimp up the boat now.