Thread: Alaqua Mullet

I do not like Salmon anyway it is cooked, rather eat a PBJ sammich. Like smoked oysters, shrimp, kingfish, briskets, ribs, chicken, Boston Butts, bacon etc. etc. The smoked mullet I had was from a local fish house that everyone said was excellent. Heck, I coulda fed em the insoles out of my workboots and it prolly woulda ate better in my opinion. Honestly, I dont mind fishing with live mullet but even the smell of dead ones for cut bait make me queasy. Them just some rank fish to me. But I am not one to say it shouldnt be eaten cause everyone has different tastes. I just did not like em. Same as my opinion of Salmon and freshwater trout, give me a PBJ and yall enjoy all ya got, unless there is some swamp cabbage and grits, I will fight ya fer them.

Used to hate mullet and green boiled peanuts until we went gigging and had some fresh and iced down, found out it's the prep. Used mullet for grouper bait and the stink was the draw. The nose tells the truth.--shu

Growing up we scaled mullet and fried them with the skin on. Later I started bleeding them when caught and skinning them, made them much better to me. Mike I have been told about chicken gizzards and livers, when I offered to a co-worker that he didn't eat his fish bait. Probably the same with mullet. I looked and mullet are big seafood in Lo.

All I can tell ya is they must be selling it to Mississippi or the Vietnamese are eatin em. I heard them eating and ate alot of weird things but never a mullet. Possum yes, raccoon yes, mudfish yes, gar yes, mullet NO!

I was raised on mullet and sometimes that's all we had to eat. The best way to do them is scaling or filleting get all of the black stuff from the inside and rinse them a couple of times until the water is clear and then put them in a cooler of ice and salt and let them rest for a couple of hours this will make them taste so fresh. I don't know what it is but when we do this they taste a whole lot better and different

Now.........the mullet from the pan handle, and I assume that entire northern gulf coast, is a better mullet than the atlantic ones. I don't like em....... I love em! We use to go to the coast with a coleman stove and all the fixins to fry with...catch a bunch...clean em..and fry em right on the dunes. Good times!

I'm from La. and the only mullet I ever ate was when I was stationed at Eglin AFB in Ft. Walton. Our land lord would throw a fry every now and again. I thought they were good, and they were saltwater mullet if memory serves. In fact I think the people from the area called themselves mulletheads. But most importantly to me was reading the great post and story. You can always learn from your Dad , and looks like a lot was learned that day.

It is a great post and by no means did I mean to derail it. Was just curious about his cooking method as I had only eaten em smoked. Time with Dad is precious and I would give anything for 1 more trip with my Dad. But thanks for the back up dpisani.