Id fish please

[Breads]

We caught this fish on Thursday at Robben Island - assumed it is a slender tuna.
Friend of mine called after seeing the photo, he'd looked it up in JLB Smith's book, and he thinks its an oilfish, which apparantly is a rare fish that runs with snoek and " any specimens captured should be preserved" according to the book. I don't have the book and not much wiser after a quick Google.
Anybody know anything more?
(unfortunately fish is in a filleted state, so not much preserving there)

 

[FishExcutnr]

we caught the exact same fish on thursday and quite a few other boats did as well. it must be a slender tuna!

 

[Mahi mahi]

Yup thats a slender tuna, often caught in the deeper water around robben and up around Dassen, have also seen a few in the pelagic nets between st helena and lamberts bay

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Allothunnus-fallai.html

 

[Decker]

Mahi mahi wrote:

Yup thats a slender tuna, often caught in the deeper water around robben and up around Dassen, have also seen a few in the pelagic nets between st helena and lamberts bay

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Allothunnus-fallai.html

Are this slender tuna rare? Should they be returned if caught? I've never seen one. The link says good eatting. Anybody ever tried eatting one?

how's the fight? much like a yellow tail?

We still return Katonkel (Skippies) if caught at C.P. due to been over fished, is this still the case that they should be returned? I've seen rugby fields upon rugby fields at Struisbaai of skippies, so they are definately not so rare there!

 

[FishExcutnr]

taste like longfin almost but fatty flesh and fights like a big snoek

 

[aquadementia]

Decker katonkel and 'skippies' are different fish...
katonkel = atlantic bonito = sarda sarda = the green one with teeth

skippie = skipjack tuna = katsuwonus pelamis = the fat silver stripey one

 

[rob billimore]

Breads wrote:

We caught this fish on Thursday at Robben Island - assumed it is a slender tuna.
Friend of mine called after seeing the photo, he'd looked it up in JLB Smith's book, and he thinks its an oilfish, which apparantly is a rare fish that runs with snoek and " any specimens captured should be preserved" according to the book. I don't have the book and not much wiser after a quick Google.
Anybody know anything more?
(unfortunately fish is in a filleted state, so not much preserving there)

Tell the Plumber...............errr sorry, Angler in the photo to pull in his Boep next time LOL !!!!

 

[Breads]

Hahaha - I'll tell him (at least he's cut his hair ...)

 

[rob billimore]

Breads wrote:

Hahaha - I'll tell him (at least he's cut his hair ...)

Ja, he looks much more gorgeous now LOL hahahahahaha