Holy Mackerel

[Carl]

Took the old duck boat out on the bay yesterday morning.
The Spanish macs were thick at the Gandy Bridge.
The bite was fast and furious when the schools came in.
I did see a couple of mottled ducks at the stormwater pond on the way back from the ramp.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

Nice pile of Spanish mackerel. We enjoy catching them on flies, along with False Albacore and Green Bonito.

 

[Carl]

I haven't caught an Atlantic Bonito in years.
We used to get them off the Okaloosa Island Pier in Fort Walton Beach.

 

[Dani]

Looks like a fun day of fishing. How many lures did you lose to the toothy critters?

 

[Carl]

Dani,
Amazingly not a single lure or hook! I use 50# mono for leaders. Even then cut offs happen. But none Sunday.
Most of them were caught on small dead alewives. A few on jigs. Caught a bunch of small jack crevasse too.
Had fish tacos for dinner!

 

[Dani]

I'm impressed.....though the one time that I got into a school of mackerel, we were using 15 and 20# mono for leaders, so considerably lighter weight stuff.

ever smoked any mackerel?

 

[Carl]

I'm impressed.....though the one time that I got into a school of mackerel, we were using 15 and 20# mono for leaders, so considerably lighter weight stuff.

ever smoked any mackerel?

I’ve had smoked king Mac dip, it was amazing. But I’ve never smoked it myself. We grill, bake or fry it. Or do saba sushi with smaller ones. Saba kabayaki is good too.