Long story short, I’ve got a friend coming in town that was telling me they’re good eating…eventually he talked me into letting him make some for me to try. So my question is, do y’all know places to look for to find them? I know I’ve seen them in the sounds at low tide but my bay boat now won’t be making it in those places. Any other ideas?
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I was recently in Pensacola, FL. Most of the seafood restaurants had mullet on the menu and, smoked mullet dip is big on the west coast of FL. Good luck, let us know how it is.
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I lived in Gulf Shores, Al for years. All of the churches use mullet for fish fries, and the stand make the smoked mullet dip. People say its delicious.
With that being said, I was in some of the feeder creeks in the Wando last weekend. I never caught a lot of them at a time, but we ended up with 10-15 horse mullet that were all released because they were to big for bait. We caught them right at the mouths of the creeks on the grass lines.
Hope that helps, and good luck getting a cooler full.
When I was little dad would use a small gold hook with a tiny piece of pink worm about 12” under a cork with small split shot weight. Slack tide brackish water in the Combahee. About this time of year looking for them schooling and jumping. Scaled and the black belly lining scraped out deep fried the same day. Never frozen unless he was keeping for bait. He would also eat the row, I didn’t like it.
I mean anything tastes good fried… but I’ve also heard this too
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They do not have pluff mud in Florida. They will not taste the same here, but you can try. Same creeks you catch bait in, just thow in a little deeper part of the creek and you will pick at them. Come September there will be HUGE schools all along the creeks near the beach and along the front beach.
I cut one up for bait a few weeks ago and pluff mud came spewing out of it. I can’t stomach eating that.
Thanks for the input guys. Yeah that kind of turns me off even trying it too. I might try a bite, but even if it tastes good I’m not sure I can make myself eat much more.
Try anything once, I guess.
Back when I was a kid.79-80 I worked in the fall pulling nets. People come out and lineup to buy crates or just two or three fish at a time. I knew some of the people that lived in Little River neck. They would buy them and would have a Little smoke House and smoke them. I have some of the country folks all the time asking me for mullet. I’m not much of a fish eater never tried it.
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They can be good eating if prepared properly. I would encourage anyone to try them before turning their nose up.
Reminds me of my grandfather and younger cousin
Grandfather- “Would you like to try some XXXX? It’s pretty good”
Cousin- “No, I don’t like that”
Grandfather- “ Have you ever tried it before?”
Cousin- “No…”
In the late 80s I did a fishing/sailing camp on Black’s Island (Camp Nautilus) in the GOMEX. Every day one of the activities was netting schools of big ass mullet. Two of us - usually the poor shmucks to draw short straws - jumped off the deck into the flats to hold an end of the net. Boat would make a huge loop and come back to pick us up, then pull the net. Holy crap we pulled in some mullet, which the camp cook prepared.
I have zero recollection of how they tasted, but the point of my moment down memory lane is that it was regular fare on the island fed to a bunch of teen boys so it must not have been nasty at least.
I like mullet. When I lived in Raleigh we would take them, leave the scales on, cut down either side of the back bone and leave the belly meat intact. Scrape off the black. Get a charcoal grill very, very, hot. Put butter, salt, and pepper on the fillets and put on the grill and close the lid. The skin will burn and become hard making a plate. Eat the meat right off the charred skin. Delicious.
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we used to eat them salted could buy the at grocery store.
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I look at it like this. If someone say, “They are good, IF…” I say no thanks becasue there are other fish easier to catch that already taste great without the “IF”! 