Scad (Horse Mackerel) Fishing in Devon

Summer-autumn nights; fish under pier lights with small sabikis or size 6 hooks tipped with bait. Keep baits mid-water on slow retrieve. Best on flooding tide.

Late summer nights; fish small sabikis under the lights, slow retrieve or suspend under a float. Best on the flood and first of the ebb.

Late summer–autumn nights under pier lights. Small sabikis or size 6 hooks tipped with fish, mid-water on the flood.

After dark late summer-autumn; fish small sabikis or Isome under the pier lights mid-water on the flood.

After dark late summer/autumn; small sabikis or micro metals mid-water. A headlamp over the water helps. Best on the flood.

Late summer–autumn at dusk and after dark. Small sabikis or size 6–8 hooks with fish slivers; slow retrieve midwater.

Late summer–autumn at dusk into dark. Small sabikis or float with mackerel strip, fish mid-water. Flooding tide in the cove.

Small sabikis or size 8 hooks with mackerel strip under a float at dusk into darkness, late summer–autumn; deeper water on the point fishes best on the flood.

Late summer/autumn at dusk into dark; small sabikis or metals midwater; fish the flood, lights by boats can help.

Late summer/autumn nights; small sabikis or 10-20g metals with slow retrieve under the rod tip. Try the flood near deeper water.

Late summer-autumn nights under shoreline lights; small sabikis or size 8 hooks tipped with fish strip. Slow retrieve midwater on the flood.

Night in late summer–autumn; float or slow-jig mid-water with small sabikis or size 6 hooks. Let rigs swing in the tide run; glow beads help.

Late summer nights; small sabikis or 2-3 g metals under headlamp glow; keep lures midwater on the flood.

Dusk into dark late summer/autumn. Small sabikis or size 6 hooks with mackerel strip under a float, mid-water on the flood.

Warm nights Jul-Oct; tiny metals or float-fished sandeel strips under a glow float. Fish into the run an hour after dusk on the flood.

After dark late summer/autumn. Size 6-8 sabikis under a small glow float or slowly jigged through the tide run near the surface.

Dusk into dark Jun-Oct; small sabikis or size 6 hooks with mackerel strip under a float. Fish mid-water in the tide run.

Late summer nights; small sabikis or a tiny strip under a glow float. Best on a flooding tide over deep water.

Night sessions late summer to autumn; small metals or sabikis with a glow bead; fish midwater on the flood.

July-Oct after dark. Small sabikis on a slow retrieve with a glow bead. Cast from the right-hand end into deeper water around high tide.

Summer nights; small sabikis or slow-retieved spinners. Best on the flood after dark.

Dusk into dark, small sabikis or Isome on size 6-10 hooks; slow retrieve under the surface from the headlands, mid to high tide, Aug-Oct.

Warm months after dark; small sabikis or a size 6 hook with mackerel sliver fished mid-water. Keep rigs high to avoid kelp.

Late summer-autumn nights. Small sabikis or metals slow-retrieved under a headlamp glow. Rocky ends and beach drop-offs.

Aug–Oct evenings. Small sabikis or metals worked mid-water off the rocks at dusk into dark, best on the flood.