Mon Aug 07, 2017 7:23 pm
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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Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:22 am
its a variant, known locally as a Spanish mackerel
Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:25 pm
That's not a Spanish mackeral. It's just a bog standard mackeral with slightly different but not uncommon markings
Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:05 pm
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
Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:37 pm
there a few differant types of mack that can be caught in ireland i thinks its 3 look it up google
Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:41 pm
caught a few myself like that last night nothing unusual bout em .
Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:37 pm
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!
Tue Aug 08, 2017 5:53 pm
We get chub mackerel here
Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:40 pm
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.
Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:02 pm
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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Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:28 pm
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.
Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:19 pm
Well done lads but does it matter I have eaten them all and they taste exactly the same LOVELY
mickser
Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:49 am
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
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