Although I would not actively target this species in an enclosed busy harbour/marina situation. with all its attended human activity I believe it is very different if you ever are successful in catching one off of say a weed covered rocky outcrop that is regularly washed with the tides. I caught one thumper of a size one in just such a spot recently!
Those who say they don't taste very nice may have had one (or been put off by someone else) where the fish was not cleaned out soon enough.
It is essential to gut the Mullet and remove every bit the dark lining that coats the inner flesh. Do this as soon as it is landed, and in sea water. Bass often has a degree of this same dark layer but perhaps not so much.
We were very surprised how really delicious the flesh was (in no way tainted or 'muddy' as warned by several old boys watching) very similar in fact to Bass.
Oven cooked it simply in a large foil parcel made up some broad leaved parsley butter and stuffed this with lemon slices all in the cavity. It came out with the flesh just falling from the complete central bone.
Hope I am lucky enough to catch another from a similar tidal washed mark and I will certainly treat it with even more value.
had a couple off the beach when i was a kid,
gutted straight away, stuffed it with peppers
with a good dollop of parsley butter
baked in tin foil,
served with rice and a few slices of lemon!
Next time master Geffaz at least eat all your veg or you will notbe allowed down from the table. Have you tried Jamie Olivewasisnames fish dish from his last tv series with roooobarb? that may make all the difference.
Wot 'no rules at all' or 'too many rules' (where would be then?)
I like my fishing as it is now!
eaten mullet for years,the fish taken from the waters of the severn tasted the same as those i get from the docks wer i work and the bass.The fish is nice batterd,baked or grilled..and some of you will rant about this but it makes a excellent bait for ray/yting..i worked on a sand dredger wer dogfish city was a right pain,they would strip the hook clean in mins..they found mullet strip hard to pull off the hook and the ray would soon home in on the bait,even had a 16lb cod on a bit of mullet so dont right the fish off:bye1:
the use of mullet as bait came about when i forgot to take some bait on the ship,we would be out for 14hrs and i could fish 8 of them hrs every day!!what a job!!i had some mullet in the freezer so i used that and ended up with a shed load of ytings,conger,ray and spurdog from flatholm island in the bristol channel,this was even when we where pumping up thousands of sandeels so they had a choice!!. The next day i put mackerel against mullet and ended up with 5 smalleyes and a very big thornie(22lb)to the mullet and just yting on mackerel,it was later in the winter when i had 3 cod on mullet.I left the job and must admit i have not used it for a few years but reading this thread i think i will get the bread out at work and when i get my boat back i will try it again this winter and see what happens
At risk of going off the cooking topic, mullet are used extensively for bait in the USA. I'm not sure why they have such a sacred following here, maybe they are not such sustainable species in the UK compared to the USA. If you want to see some fireworks, why not set up a thread "Mullet versus carp for bait" and see who piles in first!
At risk of going off the cooking topic, mullet are used extensively for bait in the USA. I'm not sure why they have such a sacred following here, maybe they are not such sustainable species in the UK compared to the USA. If you want to see some fireworks, why not set up a thread "Mullet versus carp for bait" and see who piles in first!
When i was 15 i was fishing down at Dundrum (murlough Bay) county down, caught two mullet about 2-3lbs each and a small 2lb sea trout all with a sand eel spinner. Was down there the other day, on the other side of the channel down at the mouth of the bay on the ballykinlar side were at least 100 seals on the beach, no joke,this is a good sign of fish..
I have been fishing that spot for over 20 years since i was a nipper and have always caught fish there each time.
This is an excellent spot for salmon too this time of year and there is a sand bank on the newcastle side at low tide that is good for bass when the tide is coming in but care must be taken as the sand can be very soft.
I dont really eat fish that much and would always return any i caught unless it was of a good size sea trout or salmon.
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