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I hear that mullet which are good bait in as I know them are a delicacy in Fla. Is this true? How do they taste?
All right captquest, dig a little deeper now.. Remember when Kennedy bv was called Grand Central? If so, way back before that time a restaurant opened over in Pasadena called Ted Peters Famous Smoked Fish Restaurant.
Here is a little ditty that came from a local paper.
And by the way, no matter how well you smoke a mullet, just from the way they are filleted you will always have a lot of bones.
I have eaten next to tourists who have spit out a mouthful of fish because they didn't pick the meat out properly.
I ate my first smoked mullet in a bar on Gandy bv with my Dad after a night of fishing when I was 8. That was over fifty years ago.
And you could not pay me enough to eat a fried mullet. Yuck!
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What's wrong with fried mullet? Up here in NC we would catch the smaller summertime mullet before they get roed up and fillet em out and brine them. Anytime we wanted a mess of fish we would go to the shed and dig em out. The brine removes most of the blood so the taste is different. The blood content is what makes them such good bait.
I hear that mullet which are good bait in as I know them are a delicacy in Fla. Is this true? How do they taste?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but you may be confusing bait mullet with the Atlantic Kingfish. In VA and NC, they are commonly referred to as mullet or roundhead. Sounds like some of these guys do actually eat "bait" mullet and I will never be able to tell ya how they taste, but the "meal" mullet (Atlantic Kingfish) are the best eating out there. I know this because I insulted an uncle in Tallahassee decades ago by saying I was not going to eat his "bait". They were actually the other fish.![]()