Rodney wrote:
barbz wrote:



You forgot mackerel! I have some slabs w/ skin on frozen, ready to go.
Catfish love mackerel, and the skin is tough enough to keep it on the
hook.


I try hard not to fish with what I want to eat :-)

I'll buy a few shrimp, and squid for bait, but I eat the Mack's


Are you on the east coast? The common, or Pacific mackerel we catch here
are pretty strong tasting and oily, not really suitable for anything but
smoking or using for catfish bait. I have smoked them, and they're
pretty tasty that way, but it takes a heap of fillets to get anything
useful. You have to cut out the bloodline or you've got cat food.
Spanish macks, on the other hand, are quite edible, so I've heard.

You do see pacmacks for sale at grocery stores sometimes, mostly in
Latino neighborhoods, so people do eat them. I've tried cooking it, but
it's pretty rank compared with other stuff we catch around here. Lots of
fun to catch on a single hook jig, which makes them easy to release.

Pacific Mackerel:
http://www.pierfishing.com/fish_of_t.../mackerel.html

barbz