school mackerel

[nils_desporandum]

what does one do with 30 school mackerel?

[Mick]

Let me guess, you caught your bag limit? Eat them.

[scatter1]

if you don't know what to do with them, why take 30 in the first place for f#cks sake?

[ShaneJ]

if you don't know what to do with them, why take 30 in the first place for f#cks sake?

The book says you can?

[lukesnapper]

GIVE SOME TO FREINDS AND FAMILY MATE!!

[uripper]

nils desporandum

seems like an unusual question given this recent post by you -
if you dont want to eat it leave it alone
sick of seeing bleeding,sick,stressed fish released to the sharks in the name of "sport"

so ...
1. is this a qenuine question?
2. or do you just like tossing grenades into the forum?
3. or none of the above, your just another post wanabie?

[bigmack]

take the time to fillet them properly, cut them into steaks and put them as individual meals in plastic bags and freeze them. If you didnt bleed them, cut the blood line out. They freeze well.

the limit is ten each from memory - if they are spotties ????

mackerel keeps well, barbeques well - try some wrapped in bacon and done on the plate - makes excellent curry (red curry fish) and the backbones are what you use in the crabpots. In our house I knock the head off and the tail off and we eat the meat off the backbone as well - my girls get mackerel tails and steaks and I sit down to one or two backbones and fork the white juicy meat off. Yummo (oh - my dog gets to eat mackerel as well........all the skins, bloodline bits and anything else left over. Apart from a head and tail absolutely nothing gets wasted. They have very shallow rib cages and flick out easily with a sharp knife and next to no bones.

If you caught thirty - thats ten each between three, so you will have some fish for lucky neighbours and they will appreciate you.

if you didnt want thirty - you should have looked into your esky and asked yourself the question............do we have enough and started releasing.

As the other poster said - Eat them.

last question - where did you fish!!

Tx
BM

[Fishinmishin]

Limit your catch....don't catch your limit.
I will take my limit of other species at occasional times but not if I gotta say 'What to do with them?' . There lives would have been better spent swimming or making someone else happy catching just a few. I was out yesterday and they were in plauge numbers but I took 3 and moved on.
My 2 bob .
They were schoolies...not spotties Bigmac.
Cheers, Jay

[dfox]

I Know alot of people who come on holidays from western parts of queensland just to target these, there fun to catch and prepared and frozen correctly provide many meals in the following weeks after they return home...
bag limits...foxy

[madman1]

Let common sense prevail!!!

I would be happy with only one or two, unless I had a family of around 100.

[bigmack]

i stand corrected 5 spotties each - bring on the big versions!

where were you guys fishing ?

Pro's on the mackerel today at Mooloolaba.

BM

[Billo]

I've got an idea

but yes , eat them is what people who normally catch and kill a big bag do !....well i would hope they do !

[Pwoida]

I think what Nils is getting at in a round-about way is that 30 fish per person is too many. Is that right Nils?

[Duyz72]

Fillet them up, keep a few fillets and make the rest in to fish burgers. Freeze the burgers for a few months of eating. Although if you keep catching so many often enough it will be a waste anyway.

Give them to your neighbours and friends is always appreciated.

[nils_desporandum]

no i didnt take 30,just been watching other anglers here on holidays bagging out 7 days in a row with 3 blokes on board thats 90 a day, so what do you do with 30 fish a day when your staying in a caravan park?
even if u had a freezer.....