Spanish Mackerel

First Time Catching a 10kg Spanish Mackerel

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Spanish
• Mackerel
• Fishing

[jayeffteea]

in Australia... its called Spanish Mackerel...

it is far from being the biggest caught(ever)... but this was the first time i caught something this size.... also that was the only fish caught the day... 13 other people on that trip missed out... so i was pretty stoked.

[brianbu410]

nice catch. to help clear up any confusion: your are correct, that is a spanish mackerel, a "narrow-barred spanish mackerel" to be exact, and is often caught off the coast of australia. it's not an "atlantic spanish mackerel," which generally lives in the gulf of mexico, and is what many are referring to here. spanish mackerel is a common name that can refer to either of those fish.

[RingOfFire1988]

these are called spanish mackerel in australia. wahoo is a different fish here.

[iphyhaxxor]

@FirefighterJohnM That is definitely not a wahoo. That is a Kingfish in the States and a SpaniMack in Aus. Kingfish are not that similar to wahoo. If you have ever seen one in person you would know that they are almost nothing alike. The dorsal on a wahoo is uniform unlike the king which has a dip towards the caudal. That's the first dead give away. Second, their heads are completely different.

[kzerozero55]

Spanish mackerel have spots....not stripes.



[FirefighterJohnM]

This is not a spanish mackerel, or a king mackerel. This is what we call in the US as a wahoo. The larges spanish mackeral caught is about 10 lbs. Obvious its not going to fight like that. That fish did fight like a king, but it was a king. It was a wahoo. From reading the other comments I guess in Aust. they call this fish a spanish mackerel? Odd but ok. But here in america this is a wahoo. But other wise, nice catch!

[nightspartan218]

nice aussie mack i caught a 29" atlantic spanish mack and it was a good catch for a kid

[studdgage]

to clear things up they call that a spanish mack in aussie but a king mack in the States!!!

[asienadam96]

lol im going spanish macreal trawlein with my dad at sunshine coast

[Sierra688]

To be sure, this is not what we would call "Spanish mackerel" in the Gulf of Mexico. Different species, hence the confusion--and the reason why binomial nomenclature exists.

[DEK981967]

Thats a King Mackeral!!!! Ive caught alot of these off the northeast Florida coast!!! A Spanish Mackeral has spots that are brown and black!!! Not only that, the record Spanish Mackeral is not as big as the fish you put in the boat! Average Kingfish weighs 16 pounds, average Spanish weighs 1 1/2 lbs.

[speckle1234]

thats a king..... spanish mackekrel have a few yellow spots and some green .... go look it up