mullet

[wibblerstiddlers]

whats mullet like to eat please lads

[mickeythemackeral]

If cooked properly i think their ment to be quite nice but considering they eat everything inc...sh*t i dont know what they taste like!!!
mtm

[sharpshooter]

Personally would avoid as some of the best mullet i have caught have been from sewage outlets - yum!!

SS

[garyagreen]

if you catch them from the open sea they taste good ,golden greys are better tasting

if you cram them full of sesonal herbs they are both pretty darn tastey

tight lines gary

[tiptornado]

ive heard they taste like trout???

[Superged]

as before if they are from the open sea and not a marina or near a sewage outlet they are nice otherwise I wouldn't bother. A bit like flounder really, if they have been caught on a clean beach I would say give it a go, but from a muddy or even polluted estuary avoid like like the plague.

[excel]

As above, from the open sea really nice. I`d defy anyone to tell the difference from bass.









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[Nobby Ford]

I caught and gutted a mullet of about 5lb a couple of weeks ago from Chesil beach and for those of a week disposition look away now!
The guts and cavity were full of brown sludge and the cavity wall (fillet flesh) were black. I certainly didn't have the stomach to eat it:yucky:
Can anyone tell me if this was normal, as the fish was fighting fit and bright eyed with no external marks whatsoever. Or as I susupect had I caught one that had been feeding at the end of an outfall pipe for the best part of its life?

[yatoes]

whats mullet like to eat please lads

They are usually used for making curry- - Mullet gatawny!!:roll1: :roll1: :roll1: :roll1:

[garyagreen]

you have to remove the black linning from there stomoch cavity before eating them sorrry i never remembered to put this in my other post

happy cooking :)

[Jamie Donnelly]

i caught one 5 miles up a river, about 2lb. cooked it. it was ok, nice white flesh.

just try one, it wont hurt you.

but first you need to try and catch one :D :D

JD

[DaveRig]

I caught and gutted a mullet of about 5lb a couple of weeks ago from Chesil beach and for those of a week disposition look away now!
The guts and cavity were full of brown sludge and the cavity wall (fillet flesh) were black. I certainly didn't have the stomach to eat it:yucky:
Can anyone tell me if this was normal, as the fish was fighting fit and bright eyed with no external marks whatsoever. Or as I susupect had I caught one that had been feeding at the end of an outfall pipe for the best part of its life?

This is absolutely normal, they have an exceptionally long gut and a bird-like gizzard full of grit that they use to grind down the plant material they filter out of the mud they take in through their mouth and blow out through gills.

General concensus seems to be that mullet are edible and but nothing special to eat, and a potential risk if they've been feeding round sewage outfalls. Also bear in mind that they are very slow growing, approx 20 years to 5lbs. In 20 years of filtering mud they will almost certainly have picked up heavy metals and other toxins, and these build up in the system (yours as well as the mullet's!). Seems a shame to kill a fine sporting fish that will take nature 20 years to replace for the sake of an indifferent meal and a chance of giving yourself brain-damage.

[yatoes]

This is absolutely normal, they have an exceptionally long gut and a bird-like gizzard full of grit that they use to grind down the plant material they filter out of the mud they take in through their mouth and blow out through gills.

General concensus seems to be that mullet are edible and but nothing special to eat, and a potential risk if they've been feeding round sewage outfalls. Also bear in mind that they are very slow growing, approx 20 years to 5lbs. In 20 years of filtering mud they will almost certainly have picked up heavy metals and other toxins, and these build up in the system (yours as well as the mullet's!). Seems a shame to kill a fine sporting fish that will take nature 20 years to replace for the sake of an indifferent meal and a chance of giving yourself brain-damage.


:blink: As far as worrying about brain damage is cocerned I think its probably a case of closing the gate after the horse has bolted in that it is an affliction that has already befallen 90% of Sea Anglers and at least 99.9% of this forum.:blink: :blink:

[sharpshooter]

:blink: As far as worrying about brain damage is cocerned I think its probably a case of closing the gate after the horse has bolted in that it is an affliction that has already befallen 90% of Sea Anglers and at least 99.9% of this forum.:blink: :blink:

Not me!!:crazy:

SS

[Andrew Boyd]

I echo others in that Mullet can be eaten but. . .

1) Take one 3lb fish and it'll take 10 years to replace it.
2) They do build up nasties in their flesh, it would be a good idea to eat many in a life time. The Medway, for example, is cleaner than it has been for years but the residue from the dock yard and commercial chemical works upstream will still be in the mud.
3) They are not good eating, in many European countries they are ignored though plentyfull, which sas a lot.

[captaincojones]

This is absolutely normal, they have an exceptionally long gut and a bird-like gizzard full of grit that they use to grind down the plant material they filter out of the mud they take in through their mouth and blow out through gills.

General concensus seems to be that mullet are edible and but nothing special to eat, and a potential risk if they've been feeding round sewage outfalls. Also bear in mind that they are very slow growing, approx 20 years to 5lbs. In 20 years of filtering mud they will almost certainly have picked up heavy metals and other toxins, and these build up in the system (yours as well as the mullet's!). Seems a shame to kill a fine sporting fish that will take nature 20 years to replace for the sake of an indifferent meal and a chance of giving yourself brain-damage.

sorry mate, dont want to appear rude, but this is the cooking and eating your catch forum. not the conservation forum.
mullet are very nice if prepared and cooked properly, and are eaten in many other european countries. especially mine.:) can you please supply a link to the information that shows eating mullet causes brain damage.cheers :)

[captaincojones]

just got a nice mullet recipie from the bar down the road.
fry two slices of stale french bread in 3 tablespoons olive oil.
put it in a mortar,then fry1 onion, finely chopped, with 2 crushed garlic cloves, in the same oil that remains.
add them to the mortar along with a good pinch of saffron.pound it all together until you get a smooth paste, thin it down a bit with a little water.
take your cleaned mullet, chopped into bite sized chunks,and put into a pot,season them,pour over the juice of one lemon,with the mix from the mortar.
add a little more water if the sauce seems very thick, but not too much as the fishes juices will thin it down as it cooks.simmer slowly for 15mins, with a lid on the pot, and eat it hot with chunks of bread. its lovely.:)