Howdy guys, are the mullet biting in front of the zoo on Monroe?
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Howdy guys, are the mullet biting in front of the zoo on Monroe?
I have no clue. But a quick drive around the lakefront should tell the tale. Just look for the bucket brigade spreadin chicken scratch meal.
Not local, but I'll be down this weekend and will bring my mullet gear just in case! Thanks!
Sooo what exactly is mullet gear???
I prefer an open face rod, spooled with 17 lb test mono. Orange bobber (has to be orange), piece of lead and I tie on 3, #4 hooks, tipped with a piece of white rubber worm, about 4 to 6 inches apart. Two buckets-one for my mash (oatmeal, flour and egg layer) and one for dipping water. A 48 qt cooler and last, but not least, a metal folding chair. I believe that about covers it!
Well alrighty then! Have yerself a ball.
You gotta have a coleman stove and frying pan too!
Ya just hadda go and bring that up daint ya!:puke:puke:bangheadnononoQuote:
Originally Posted by Yelim
Love me some fried Mullet.
Well you are certainly welcome to my share, except the ones I catch fer bait.
Mike , I don't know about fresh water mullet ,But salt water one's are GRRRRRREAT ! RR
Yep!! GREAT BAIT!! You can have all mine that are prepared to eat! I'll have a BLT or PBJ. Ain't eatin no mullet! You all can have at em:puke:puke Dont take this the wrong way, ya'll can eat whatever ya want, don't matter to me, I just do not like em.
Just remember , they are Chicken of the Sea LOL RR
Uhh NO!
Years ago they had stands alongside the road that sold Smoked Mullet. It was terrible.
This exactly! Bingo! Ding ding ding we have a winner! Winner winner chicken dinner! Course I would not give ya a nickle for a hundred pounds of salmon either. So to each their own.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilbur
Man. There ain't nothin better than fresh mullet fried with a big side of grits. :fingerdance:fingerdance
:puke what ya wanna go ruin grits fernonono:yikesnonono:bash
And swamp cabbage if you can get some!! And follow that with Guava Cobbler!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony the Tiger
Gulf mullet especially around the panhandle is some of the best fried fish ever.....do prefer them whole........it's on all the menus...
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Now i will eat my weight in swamp cabbage, nevef tried guava cobbler but i bet its tasty. Just gotta pass on the mullet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yelim
Over the years I commercial fished I sold a few hundred thousand pounds of them to the Patties in Pensacola.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speckanator
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 anymoreQuote:
Originally Posted by Bass7858
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.
And a biscuit........hush puppies.
Carried Grandson (15) and Son-in-law to the Altamaha River Monday to fish for mullet. We put out our bait poles then a salt block and waited. Few minutes caught big carp and small catfish then few mullet along until the tide started going out. From about 12:00 until we quit at 5:00......there was a mullet being caught or missed. We had great time and tonight had 13 people at our house to eat mullet and crappie........had a great time thanks to mullet.
Never herd of salt block........please tell me more of the purpose.
Yes Yes Yes!!! Please.....explain salt block!! Do you still use oats/laying mash?? Are you using slices of white plastic worm on your hooks?????
I need to get my groove back on mullet!!
Never hooked em..... Always used a cast net..... Sounds like fun might try it
We use Cattle supplements as feed.....they are bout the size of a nickel and about 1.5 inches long. We put them in an Onion Sack and stake them down with metal pole. That is the feed......we also throw some extra's around the poles. The main attractor is the 50 pound Salt Block.......guess the mullet miss the salt water and really gather around the block. One block last about three hours ......we used 4 blocks last Monday. We fish with #6 gold hooks and use small piece of red worm for bait......but when the mullet really gather up....I use gulp imitation red worms......they work good and stay on the hook better than red worms. Use piece about 1/4 inch long. We use Crappie rods and 10 pound test line with drag set loose cause when you hook the mullet.......yonder they go. We set up on sand bars about waist to chest deep.......we move the poles shallow if tides get high. We stand or sit on chairs in the water........only way to fish in the hot weather. Promise you.......It works.
Dang post office. I never got my invite.LOL I know that was goooodQuote:
Originally Posted by litewirehooker
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this entire thread on mullet. Litewirehooker gives me some ideas on fishing mullet in a freshwater spot where i know they live. Have never tried to catch them there. Here we use treble hooks on rods or poles and snatch them over baited holes near the river mouth where it connects with a salt water bay.
Used to be that mullet would crowd into spring fed rivers on the Gulf coast in winter to stay warm. Wiki Wachee is one that I am aware of. My late uncle had a place on the Mud River that flows into Wiki Wachee near Bayport. He would snatch mullet from the deep holes when they were crowded in the holes such as Hospital hole in Wiki Wachee river.
yall need to come fish mullet at ft desoto. Never seen mullet the size of these. Can barely get their pig bodies out the water.
Thrown the net all over the east end.....shallow forever and they school right by you.... one throw 15-20. I would just net em' and let em' go...so many! Great place to camp with great fishing/beach combination.Quote:
Originally Posted by huntinslabs