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Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 7:23 pm
by eoghanb
Got a few mackeral last night and one caught my eye ,is this an unusual pattern and has anyone got many of them
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Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:22 am
by kieran
its a variant, known locally as a Spanish mackerel
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:25 pm
by ShaneH
That's not a Spanish mackeral. It's just a bog standard mackeral with slightly different but not uncommon markings
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:05 pm
by eoghanb
I knew it was a normal mackeral ,just the markings are different ,I've heard about them before just never noticed any ,just wondering how common they were
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:37 pm
by guts
there a few differant types of mack that can be caught in ireland i thinks its 3 look it up google
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:41 pm
by jayh1982
caught a few myself like that last night nothing unusual bout em .
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:37 pm
by kieran
ShaneH wrote:That's not a Spanish mackeral. It's just a bog standard mackeral with slightly different but not uncommon markings
quite right too, sorry.
What I meant to say was that its called a Spanish mackerel by some locals...
serves me right for not checking what I type!
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 5:53 pm
by rushnaldo
We get chub mackerel here
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:40 pm
by Rob Millard
Was in Croatia a few weeks back and the mackerel we were catching for livebaits looked like that. Went fishing on the east coast of Australia several years ago and we used what they call slimey mackerel as livebaits. They were identical to our Mackerel only they had black spots instead of black stripes.
Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:02 pm
by eoghanb
Definitely not a chub mackeral ,the mack I got looks the same as a normal one only it has squiggles instead of bars,that's a chub on the bottom compared to an Atlantic mackeral
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Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:28 pm
by chuckaroo
Having said that.. I'd be pretty sure that the two mack in the original picture, at the start of the topic, are both just Atlantic mackerel
Scomber scombrus, with just different markings.
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:19 pm
by mickser
Well done lads but does it matter I have eaten them all and they taste exactly the same LOVELY
mickser
Re: Strange pattern mackeral
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:49 am
by Eoghan
We used to catch these years ago in Wicklow when I was a teenager. They were usually greener looking, really bright green, wider, had different patterns to the normal mackerel you see and were always larger. Weirdly enough you only tended to get one at a time and I dont recall every seeing anyone taking more than that, even when feathers were used. They were well sought after as the fight from one was usually epic. Brings back some memories