catch them on breadballs. use a bobber and the bite will usually be unusually light. when the cork just moves, hit em.
edwall
Loc: eastern North Carolina
1. Mullet can be caught on a hook and line. A cane pole works best. Use a small (#6 or 8) hook about 6 inches under a cork. Bait it with a small piece of red worm - just enough to cover the bend in the hook. Then, watch it carefully and, in the words of an old man who had a bucketful of the fish, "set the hook just before they bite." If you let them nibble too long, they'll suck the worm off the hook. The method works. Even I could catch a few.
2. As far as eating them, the way I've had them was on a charcoal grill cooked slowly over low coals. A friend gutted them (didn't scale them), and laid them spread-out on the grill. He started out skin-side down and, when it started to turn black, turned them over and finished them meat-side down until the meat was done (white). To finish, he scraped a small amount of fat from along the backbone and spread it over the meat as a garnish. It was delicious.
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Caught them as a kid with small hair hooks and dough balls, no weights. Smoking them is the best, and I was always told the black mullets were better than the silvers.
Jim Buck wrote:
Caught them as a kid with small hair hooks and dough balls, no weights. Smoking them is the best, and I was always told the black mullets were better than the silvers.
One is a shad, one is a mullet and one is a herring. How do you tell them apart?
Ground mullet are not mullet . They are whiting . Now they are fun to catch and tasty too fry
Let’s not twist things . Mullet look like mullet . Not whiting. No spin here.
This happens with crappie /perch no the same .
Oh. Kinda like the trout y'all catch that aren't trout, but drum? I forgot, you sou'eastern people speak your own language. Sounds an awful lot like English, but it ain't.
Hay cubsfan years ago we used to catch mullet using a #10 hook baited with a piece of green bean for bait cleaned them just like any other fish dipped them in buttermilk then in cornmeal and fried them up. Delicious. Barney
The most productive method to catch is snagging them with treble hook or use a net. Mullet are good smoked, fried or baked. The flesh is very firm. I use a net. My Dad grew up in the Florida panhandle and back then the creeks and bays were so full of mullet you could catch a boat load in a few minutes.
thanks i going after these fish shortly.
Give the roe a try. It might be tasty! Let us know if you do.
I used to catch them with a throw net and fry using corn meal. Better than red fish. Anyway, they are vegetarian. Never knew anyone catching with a hook with lettuce. Sometimes snagged with a large trebble hook.
I used to catch them with a throw net and fry using corn meal. Better than red fish. Anyway, they are vegetarian. Never knew anyone catching with a hook with lettuce. Sometimes snagged with a large trebble hook.
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