Thread: Jack Mackeral for eating

Scampi are prawns gibo

Originally Posted by mucko

Scampi used to trawl for them from barrier to the mayor sometime to motiti that link will help you we used to get them from 250m to 450m along with a lot of other fish like Ling. Sauri i think is what you see is basicly a prawn i think.

You just confused the hell out of me Mucko!
So Skampi is a prawn thing and so is Sauri?

Other way I think. Scampi are defo a prawn, whereas Sauri are a small sardine like fish.
A mate bought as few Blue macks home from a longliner trip a while ago, as I had been telling him how mackerel are widely eaten in Europe. He smoked them up and reckoned they were on of the best tasting smoked fish he ever had.

Yea a good scampi is around 200-250mm long all up and the tail is about as thick as your thumb if your a ham fisted barstard

Had em fresh of the pound belt for breakfast for years, into a cup tail first fill from the zip wait a min tip out and refill wait a min break body's off and eat tail meat

Like crayfish but much sweeter and more tender

So similar to Koura? How would i go about catching me some Skampi?

Work on a scampi or hoki trawler?

Dunno mate, spos you could pot em but be a long way to pull your pot up!

Yeah ha ha over it! Next mission is a broadbill anyway!

They pot them in the shallows in Scotland, but I guess thats a long way to go for a prawn

Originally Posted by Pengy

They pot them in the shallows in Scotland, but I guess thats a long way to go for a prawn

Ha ha just a little trip in the tinnie!

Originally Posted by Rushy

Scampi are prawns gibo

No they are not Scampi is a lobster

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yea a good scampi is around 200-250mm long all up and the tail is about as thick as your thumb if your a ham fisted barstard

Had em fresh of the pound belt for breakfast for years, into a cup tail first fill from the zip wait a min tip out and refill wait a min break body's off and eat tail meat

Like crayfish but much sweeter and more tender

Thats only a #2 grade Scampi they used to get #1 grades off the chatham rise the tails about 40mm wide. they are very moreish panfried in garlic butter is not to bad either.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Ha ha just a little trip in the tinnie!

I know divers that have seen them on the worm beds by Karewa it would be a matter of hit and miss to find them. but a scallop dredge might be just as good if you had a 2" mesh drag bag.

Originally Posted by mucko

Thats only a #2 grade Scampi they used to get #1 grades off the chatham rise the tails about 40mm wide. they are very moreish panfried in garlic butter is not to bad either.

Yep, spent more of my life on the rise than I care to remember

I said "a good" and stand by that statement

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Originally Posted by mucko

No they are not Scampi is a lobster

Im glad to here that, not up on the species genetics but know that the prawns you get from supermarkets etc bout the size of your thumbnail taste nothing like cray scampi or koura.
Mum puts prawns in one of her salads. I can't eat it.

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Originally Posted by hunter308

I used to say that about mullet always refused to eat it then just after I got together with the missus she took me to her dad and uncles place in kawakawa we arrived there and next thing we got oh good you are in time for dinner, we will be having fish we thought cool no worries then he pulled the mullet out and started deep frying it in dripping and I had to eat it the missus, the uncle and her father were all chowing down on it and I had no choice but to eat it but the dripping that was running off it made me fell crook. For me mullet is still bait after that experience.

mullet is absoultly beautiful filleted and dipped in beer batter then deep fryed.
hot smoked its hard to beat
just like anything, if you fuck it up its going to be terrable,

mackrel is good smoked, best hot fresh ect. not so good cold
very conviently sized for lunches
but really you only eat them when the snapper isnt biting and your hanging out for smoked fish