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re: Why dont the majority of folks eat mullet in Louisiana?
Posted on 8/17/23 at 4:11 pm to Islandboy777
Posted on 8/17/23 at 4:11 pm to Islandboy777
mullet dip in Cedar Key FL was the first time I had it.
It's really good.
Totally wouldn't eat one from near the Mississippi though
It's really good.
Totally wouldn't eat one from near the Mississippi though
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Posted on 8/17/23 at 5:27 pm to tigerpimpbot
The fishing guides I use in Apalachicola swear by them.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 8:13 am to Tiger Prawn
Yes this is it. The mullet that school on top of the water in La are a totally different species vs the channel mullet that they call Biloxi Bacon.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:09 pm to Islandboy777
They nasty! I never heard of eating them till I moved to Ga in ‘86. Had mullet the 2nd week I was here. Spit out the first bite and haven’t had them since!
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:14 pm to Islandboy777
Trout only in this boat baw!
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:18 pm to PlaySomeHonk
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Yes this is it. The mullet that school on top of the water in La are a totally different species vs the channel mullet that they call Biloxi Bacon.
Nope. They're striped mullet. Same as you're seeing in LA. That said, ground/channel/ mullet are actually very good.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:23 pm to PCRammer
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While this is true, those better fish cannot be caught by the hundreds with a few tosses of a 12ft cast net. Big family, big cookout, easy food to feed all (+ some white bread and hot sauce).
Maybe so, but I wouldn't serve those nasty things to friends and family. You could go catch a cooler full of white trout and ground mullet in no time with a lb of shrimp and actually have something good to fry for a big group.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 8:28 am to tigerpimpbot
North Florida black mullet are great to eat. My fellow Louisianans laugh at such a notion but they must have eaten the muddy water ones. Also, I remember spear fishing near the rigs years ago and the spade fish circling the boat. First I had finished shooting red snapper from the bottom of the rig. My Louisiana buddies laughed at me when I shot about ten of em out of the boat and put em in a separate ice chest. The are good to grill or fry but just have to cut out the darker meat.
Posted on 8/20/23 at 6:48 am to Islandboy777
My wife likes mullet, but I don't.
Posted on 8/20/23 at 6:50 am to Junky
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Sea and suds in Gulf Shores use to have fried mullet tuesdays. I always thought those were good.
This is the only time my wife and I had mullet. I did not like it.
Posted on 8/20/23 at 1:52 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
A nurse and her husband moved to Elleck from Boston.They went to Grand Isle frequently,her husband would cast net and catch shrimp and mullets.
She said the way they cooked them was to score them with a knife both sides,and grill them over charcoal.Oil would cook out and she said they were delicious.
She said the way they cooked them was to score them with a knife both sides,and grill them over charcoal.Oil would cook out and she said they were delicious.
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:17 pm to Islandboy777
In my experience mullet caught on sandy graass flats are about as good eating when fresh as anything that swims...catch the same fish on a mudflat and it is nearly unedible. We used to smoke them by the thousands caught out of Tampa Bay and they are DELCIOUS. The same fish caught off the coast of Georgia is only edible fried and only then if they are cooked almost immediately...and even then they aren't as good as say flounder or trout...not the case though in Tampa where the bay is sand bottom for the most part. I don't know if there is anything to it but thats what I have been told...the waters of Mississippi, at least around the barrier islands, is more like that of Tampa Bay than most of the waters off Louisiana, so that may be the difference. Most of the water off Lousiana is more like that off the coast of Georgia...muddy bottom and marsh grasses. I suspect thats why Biloxi Bacon is a thing in Mississippi and not in Louisiana. I know the first time I ever spent any time in Louisiana I was EXCITED about the mullet because I had grown up catching and smoking them around Tampa...I was told that this about the difference in habitat by some shrimpers in Vinton....and the mullet I caught were not very tasty...
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:20 pm to dstone12
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I Caught them in a cast net at Johnston Creek near Beaufort SC and fried them bitches.
Delicious.
Theyre pretty good off Georgia and South Carolina but not as good for smoking as they are around Tampa. Very common in fish stores in Georgia and South Carolina and a main stay at seafood restaurants but no one smokes them here to any degree...and they are only good fried if very fresh. They do not freeze well at all and do not even sit a day in the fridge before becoming very strong and soft fleshed. I have smoked them from Beaufort and they ain't nothing like Tampa or Biloxi Bacon.
Smoked mullet is readily available in the Tampa area...it is DELICIOUS. By itself as good or better, in my opinion, than smoked king fish and makes just as good a fish dip.
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:21 pm to BigDropper
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Environment affects their flavor.
Mullet from sandy bottom estuaries are cleaner tasting than mullet from muddy bottom estuaries.
Thats what I have been told....
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:22 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Channel mullet (aka whiting) are good eating
The other mullet that you find in bait shop freezers, I’ll pass
Fresh whiting is about as good a fried fish as you can get in my opinion....but fresh mullet is close, depending on where it was living when it was caught...
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:23 pm to mtb010
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Damn near anything is edible if a man is hungry enough. I've fried hard heads before just to see, because you don't know unless you try it. Soaked them in vinegar and water for a few hours and fried them up. They weren't bad at all. Just like with anything, you have to figure out how to make it taste good.
Gaftops and hard heads are nearly identical to channels and blues...they get a bad rap but they are very good eating
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:26 pm to TopWaterTiger
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yep!
similar to early season field spoonies versus late season marsh spoonies.
Grain fed boot lips is good eating I don't care who you are....filter feeding spoonies would turn a buzzards stomache. Ducks are DEFINITELY a product of their environment....Canvasbacks and redheads, and even ringnecks off the coast of Georgia are generally really good eating....off Lake Seminole in SW georgia the same bird is NASTY....bluebills are REALLY good up north...like a moist turkey dark meat. By the time we get them here they are almost undedible.
Posted on 8/21/23 at 12:28 pm to LSU Tiger Bob
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Many years ago...35 maybe...I was in Pensacola for a few days of work...was invited to a fish fry...they had mullet and mullet roe. Mullet was very good...mullet roe was awesome!
Damn sure is and does not seem to be impacted by the environment they are in like the flesh is...it is damn good eating
Posted on 8/22/23 at 11:13 am to wahoocs
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When snapper dropped, amberjack became a prize
been eating ajs for decades...
Posted on 8/22/23 at 12:30 pm to Islandboy777
I’d rather eat choupique
This post was edited on 8/22/23 at 12:53 pm
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