Thread: Mullet

Originally Posted by Speckanator

Gulf mullet especially around the panhandle is some of the best fried fish ever.....do prefer them whole........it's on all the menus...Attachment 210797

Over the years I commercial fished I sold a few hundred thousand pounds of them to the Patties in Pensacola.

Was informed years ago to bleed mullet, fillet and skin them. Then deep fry after adding a stick of butter to the oil. Did this once and am still doing it if I catch the mullet. Do not have a castnet now, it walked away a few years ago. Prolly to old to throw one now. Grew up eating fried mullet and still love them. 40's and 50's some families might not have survived without some mullet. I think Crappie are decedents of mullet.

Yelim you and Tony Know what i'm talking about , was born in Sarasota spend 11 years at Eglin AFB did lots of net fishing for mullet and selling em to the market and EATING em LOL and LOve Grits Too. RR

I was born and raised in Auburndale, Fl. Before i was a teen we spent every summer @ El Jobean/Boca Grande fishing from the still active back then train trestle. My Grandfather would stand on the trestle with about a 12 ft calcutta pole (very stout one) with about 10 ft of piano wire attached to it and on the business end was a huge weighted treble hook. A mullet would "bump" the wire, he'd snatch up and up would come a mullet. Yes...we ate mullet, snapper, flounder...and oh yeah, netted coolers full of shrimp under the bridges with a coleman lantern and and VERY long dip net. Those days are gone.
Later on we learned how to catch them hook and line over at Apollo Beach, and for about 60 seconds after you hook the mullet you think you have a freight train on your line!
I have tried to go back to Apollo Beach a Couple times this past June and could not even get a nibble from a mullet. Is there a certain time of year when they bite better? I remember when we went it was hotter than Hades.
Guava cobbler!! Now thats interesting!!!!
Big Time!!

I Lived in Pensacola back in the fifties and sixties didn't known what red meat was till I was fourteen. Thank goodness for mullet. Still go back to a place in Pensacola for the best mullet on the coast.

My Dad worked for the Seaboard RR in Tampa where I was born and we rode that train to Boca Grande to fish. Don't remember the fishing as much as the train ride. Train hit some turkeys on the way back and stopped to collect birds to eat. My older brothers drove there back then to fish off the phosphate docks at night for jewfish. They brought one home once that I remember. You are very correct 7858 those days will never return. Not sure if the trestle or the docks are even there anymore

Originally Posted by Bass7858

I was born and raised in Auburndale, Fl. Before i was a teen we spent every summer @ El Jobean/Boca Grande fishing from the still active back then train trestle. My Grandfather would stand on the trestle with about a 12 ft calcutta pole (very stout one) with about 10 ft of piano wire attached to it and on the business end was a huge weighted treble hook. A mullet would "bump" the wire, he'd snatch up and up would come a mullet. Yes...we ate mullet, snapper, flounder...and oh yeah, netted coolers full of shrimp under the bridges with a coleman lantern and and VERY long dip net. Those days are gone.
Later on we learned how to catch them hook and line over at Apollo Beach, and for about 60 seconds after you hook the mullet you think you have a freight train on your line!
I have tried to go back to Apollo Beach a Couple times this past June and could not even get a nibble from a mullet. Is there a certain time of year when they bite better? I remember when we went it was hotter than Hades.
Guava cobbler!! Now thats interesting!!!!
Big Time!!

Used to fish the Jacksonville area creeks for mullet, set up the line with 5 torpedo corks to keep the line out of the water with split shot and hook about two inches deep and threaded worm on hook. Ate many a mullet, grits, and corn pone.

Well yall have made me divulge one of my secrets. If you like fried mullet, or even if you don't, next time you have hot fried mullet make sure you have some real cane syrup. Drag a piece of hot mullet through that syrup on the way to your mouth. My keyboard is getting wet from the drool.