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More Sea Fishing Photos Online Tide Table (Brest France) Contact Sam to book your Sea Fishing Holiday Horse mackerel or scads follows big shoals of sardines and other baitfish  in summer along with sea bass and mackerel While sea bass fly fishing Sam lands a supercharged mackerel which actually fight better than most schoolie sea bass During late spring and summer, sea bass normally start storming into the Bay of Brest to attack huge shoals of sardines. They have a habit of rounding up these shoals then start picking off sardine after sardine as part of their summer gorging fest. You would think that they do this job alone, but they have help from other fish species. This corralling assistance comes in the form of atlantic mackerel and horse mackerel (locally known as the 'chinchard') which isn't really a mackerel but is actually member of the jack family. We know them in the states as 'scad' which are primarily used for bait for big game ocean fishing. No horsing around! This horse mackerel slams  flies and small lures like a pro and uses its steamline body  to make sure you remember the fight! When fishing for jack and mack downsize your flies to size 4 or 8 so when they take it you know that you can exert a quick hookset. They really go for flies like Sam's Breton Crevettes, Gummy Minnows, and Sam's Breton baitfish patterns. If you don't have any of these flies then tie on an orange or pink shrimp fly small fry pattern to do the job. If you are spin fishing then go for a bass lure or feathers. Best to use a good medium sinking fly line, cast into the edge of the sardine shoals, let the fly drop, then hang on for the ride. Good fishing! horse mackerel slam bass lures and flies hard! bass lures and feathers are favourites for mackerel © 2007Fish&Fun Brittany