White trout

Decided to try the salt water today.
2 ground mullet and 19 white trout.
All on artificials.
Burnt a whopping one gallon of gas.

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Nice. Good job

Has any one else noticed when cleaning both white trout and white Sacalait that they seem to have a softer flesh than speckled trout and black Sacalait. Even when heavily iced down over night the whites seem softer than the spec’s and blacks.
Here where I fish in south east Louisiana it’s not unusual to catch both black and white Sacalait on the same trip. It’s also common to catch both spec’s and white trout at the same spot. So I’ve had a lot of experience cleaning whites and blacks and I prefer Black crappie over white’s as far as cleaning. The blacks here don’t grow as long as the whites but the blacks always have much bigger shoulders than the whites.
Agree? Disagree?

Bon Temps!!

White trout and specs do have very soft skin.
Easy to screw up and cut through the skin when fileting them. I have not caught enough crappie to know any difference in them but I agree with you on the specs and white trout.
Not a huge difference but noticeable.
My favorite inshore fish is ground mullet.
Very good and very easy to filet.
Some folks leave the skin on the white trout filets.
Just take a water hose with good pressure and hit them from the tail up towards the head and knock the scales off. Then cut the filet off and fry them with the skin on.
Scales knock off really easy. Kinda messy though.

Here in Southeast Louisiana we call your ground mullet
, channel mullet. I’m like you any channel mullet take an ice bath ride home.
I prefer skin on Sacalait and trout sometimes thus when cleaning fish I usually do a few with the skin on.
Our white trout are usually caught deeper than specs and market bait is the ticket for white trout. In Louisiana there is no size or creel limit for white trout sooo when I find them it’s on like Donkey Kong!!

Bon Temps!!

Great outing for sure. Thanks for posting

On the south end of Mobile Bay just south of Fort Morgan there is a shallow bar that runs parrallel to the ship channel.
During the winter on a falling tide the ground mullet are stacked up there between the 60ft deep channel and the 3ft or so deep sand bar. We load up on the ground mullet there occassionally for the freezer and give some to non fishing family and friends.
But in the summer months in the same place, nothing but hardheads.
Dont know where they go in the summer but catch them there every winter.
Can be tricky to fish there at times due to the current is so strong and a south wind against the current makes the boat lay stern to the seas. But the ground mullet are worth it.

No limits here either on white trout or ground mullet.