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Posted on 7/11/20 at 3:21 pm to SloaneRanger
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Many in the FL panhandle eat them
Yeah, where I live it's a standard item on the menu, probably eaten more than any other fish. Likely because it's the cheapest fish here, by far. From the local paper:
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Mullet, the only fish with a gizzard, feed on detritus in the water, filtering out most impurities. In Texas and Louisiana, mullet feed around oil rigs and no amount of filtering can make them taste good.
“But we (in North Florida) have some of the most pristine waters,” Williams said. “That explains why our mullet is so delicious.
I've eaten it fairly often, it tastes about like any other fried restaurant fish.
Posted on 7/11/20 at 6:31 pm to Tigris
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Yeah, where I live it's a standard item on the menu, probably eaten more than any other fish.
My grandmother was from Perry, FL in Taylor County. We ate mullet there all of the time, if it’s fresh it’s good fried. I used to detour to Perry on my trips between Gainesville and Destin to eat some fresh fried mullet and oysters
Posted on 7/11/20 at 6:55 pm to jchamil
I would compare it to river catfish. Good when fresh and done right, terrible otherwise.
Posted on 7/11/20 at 7:07 pm to baldona
Had a couple jump in my boat as I was running at dusk in Flat Lake. Took em home and cleaned and fried them next to some goggle eyes. 2nd worst thing I have ever put in my mouth. Absolutely disgusting
Posted on 7/11/20 at 7:23 pm to Big Bill
What was the worst though?
Posted on 7/11/20 at 7:29 pm to dstone12
Why not
Posted on 7/11/20 at 10:56 pm to dstone12
Depends on where they come from. South Florida mullet are delicious. Galveston mullet are horrible. I think the further they are from a large river the better. Smoked mullet is VERY good and fried fresh mullet is, but only if they are in really high salinity. I’ve gotten mixed results in the Florida panhandle but Space Coast to Tampa they’re very good.
Posted on 7/11/20 at 11:00 pm to auggie
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Smelt
That's it. Funny name, because if it smelt as bad as it tasted, I never would have tried it.
Fresh smelt cooked in an ice fishing shanty is good eating. They aren’t much good though if they are kept on ice a few hours....but straight out of the water, rolled in bread crumbs and pepper and fried immediately they are DELICOUS.....bones and all!
Posted on 7/11/20 at 11:19 pm to dstone12
There probably is something to the theory of they are good if they are caught in cleaner, saltier water. They are very good FRESH. I’ve also only eaten them when they were caught in waters from Orange Beach, where I target them every summer, east to Apalachicola. prefer them to most fish on the menu but maybe I’ve acquired a taste for them growing up eating them.,I like them best fried.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:51 am to dstone12
Fresh from sandy bottom, they're pretty good. Any other conditions just cut them up to catch something better.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:18 am to dstone12
If they come from clean water and are eaten fresh, they are pretty good. Dirty water, don't eat. Older then a day, don't eat.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 11:54 am to ChenierauTigre
There was a restaurant named Rudy's at the east end of the Tampa Causeway that sold grilled/smoked mullet. He split them down the back, cleaned them out, coated the flesh side with spicy red powder of some sort, and cooked them scale side down in his smoker for 8 minutes or so. His smoker was brick, about 4 foot square with a chimney about 15 ft in the air, and it had an expanded metal grill that slid in and out (horizontally)through a trap door about a foot high. His fire was made with oak logs.
The fish was very moist, tender, and tasted great. You could them cooking a mile away. His place was always packed in the evenings. He also sold other seafood dishes like shrimp and oysters, but the mullet sold like hot cakes.
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