Shark Mackeral
Submitted by Wazza79 on Tue, 2013-02-12 18:38
Headed out from Hillaries yesterday with a fellow FW member and trolled up this little Shark Mack just behind the 3 mile. Decided to keep it as I've never tried eating one before and couldnt find any info on their eating quality, so bleed and put into the ice slurry. Filleted up nicely and crumbed and cooked tonight for dinner and although the meat looks sweet and white, it tastes like shite. Very floury in texture and still had that ammonia taste to it. Happy to say Shark Mackies are now a catch and release species.
Caught on a Richter Jnr Tornado
Cheers again to Alwaysfishin for the day out and the happy snap.
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Swompa
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I thought they were meant to
I thought they were meant to be delicious. Thanks for being the crash test dummy haha
bitten
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crapthey make fantastic
crap
they make fantastic bottom fishing bait caught some huge reds on them
tot
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+1 on the red bait
very good for bait with the amount of oil in it.
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Bunny
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That's interesting as we've
That's interesting as we've caught countless numbers over the years and they've always come up fine. I'm on the north east coast but.
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Cool as, much weed around?
Cool as, much weed around?
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Wazza79
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Weed
Yeah mate, there was a bit hence using the skirted lures rather than the Laser Pros. Lots of bonito around but didn't find any other tuna.
pricey10
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Last time i ate one was when
Last time i ate one was when we had 9 people to feed on a camping trip. My friend done it up in a stir fry and I was horrible so I gave the left overs to the dogs and they wouldn't eat it
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randall df223
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i've cooked it up in a
i've cooked it up in a curry, (neil perry fish curry - google it) and it was fine. not a bbq fish but good enough for a curry! definitely not catch and release on my boat.
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meglodon
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sounds like it's a
sounds like it's a good neighbour fish
Iceman
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Very nice to eat
We brought about 30kg of fillets back from up north. Found the eating quality excellent. Maybe you need to give it time to bleed out before putting in the ice slurry. We would bleed them and place in rock pool for a while before filleting. Could smell the ammonia when filletting but OK when eating.
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sea-kem
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I save all the flesh for
I save all the flesh for chum and leave the skin with about 10mm of flesh on for bait. Nice and oily and stays on the hook well.
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Doooma
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Just in the process of
Just in the process of smoking 1 of these!! Ill add my comments on how it turns out once I get home this weekend!!!
carnarvonite
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Bait fish
Good for bait and not much else.
If you are extremely hard up for fish I would suggest eating buff bream or sea sweep before eating one.
topace
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eating
caught heaps up north years age always found them great eating
try freezing them first to get rid of the amonia
or you could give them to me
Daniel Strijk
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The only way we have eaten
The only way we have eaten them was when we smoked them and it wasn't too bad, Mainly use them for burley these days as theres definately better fish around
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paulbazza
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Shark Mack
"They are considered average eating. The flesh has a strong smell of ammonia, hence 'shark' mackerel." from http://fishwrecked.com/content/fishwreckapedia