Cast Nettin' for Mullets!

[Fish-Bait]

Growing up in Pascagoula I try to read the Missippi' Press Register online addition as much as possible to keep up with the news down there.

They have a neat pic (http://www.gulflive.com/mississippipress/pageone/monday.pdf) on the front page today. I thought I would share it with you all.

Although I have never specifically cast netted for eatin' sized mullet I have at times cast over a school with my bait net. Sometimes you can catch 10-15 of those 1 pounders in a cast. They are good to eat though. I only like em' smoked. Now their little offspring (finger mullet) are excellent flounder bait. Many a flatside have fallen when a finger mullet is lightly dragged on the bottom right in front of their noses!

More on mullets here (http://www.rodnreel.com/gulffish/gulffish.asp?cmd=view&FishID=218).

I bet ya'll were thinkin' about a hairstyle too weren't you!:)

[58ford]

I used cast for mullet when I lived in Gautier as a young'un. Smokin' 'em is good, but fried, baked or put in gumbo mullet are all good. when I was down there they called Smoked mullet "Biloxi bacon", cause you ate 'em for breakfast.

[JimmyJam]

[quote=Fish-Bait;308894] Now their little offspring (finger mullet) are excellent flounder bait. Many a flatside have fallen when a finger mullet is lightly dragged on the bottom right in front of their noses!

They make mighty fine redfish bait too. :)

[Fish-Bait]

I grew up on croakers and grits. On high tides if I could catch a few live shrimp I had this little spot down at the dock I called croaker point. In the summer I could always catch 6 or 7 of them in an afternoon. I would fillet em' and voila'! Mom would cook me some croaker and grits for breakfast. Dang it I miss those days.

[cubby 1]

We are looking foward to our vac in mid-Sept to Cocodrie, LA where last year our wives caught 5 gallon bucket fulls of jumbo white skrimps trowing a 4 ft casting net on the shallow end of the boat launches when de passing skrimp boats wif butterfly nets skert dem big skrimps over toward de shore.

We ate like kings all week a didn't spend a penny on seafood meats. De scrimp boat capts would give us large hampers of blue crab fo free.

Cocodrie is the place to go, man... I love it down there.

[gonefishin]

I like em fried myself. Me and the old man go down to the beach every once and a while with the mullet net and catch a mess. Throwing that big net is hard work though. You also have to drag your feet so you don't get a welcome for an unsuspecting stingray:smt103.

[daisy]

What is a CROAKER and how does it taste?

Also how does a mullet taste?

When I hit North Gulfport, I see mullet for sale everywhere. Looks cheap.

My cousin used to work at some factory that used paco fish or something strange sounding like that. Think they used it in lipstick????? by the back bay or some bridge there.

[Fish-Bait]

Daisy here is a pic of the ones we have around here. You can also read up on em' here (http://ms.rodngun.com/gulffish/gulffish.asp?cmd=view&FishID=30) as well as alot of other coastal fishes we have.

[gonefishin]

Daisy here is a pic of the ones we have around here. You can also read up on em' here (http://ms.rodngun.com/gulffish/gulffish.asp?cmd=view&FishID=30) as well as alot of other coastal fishes we have.

Hey fish-bait, have you ever caught a "bull croaker"? Some people call them river croaker. They are very fun to catch and mighty tasty!! I'm not exactly sure how big a croaker can get but I've caught some pretty nice ones in the fall.

[JimmyJam]

Bull croaker have become rare these days. We used to catch big croaker pretty regularly in the Pascagoula river when I was young, but it is very unusual to see croakers over about a pound anymore. Same with big ground mullet. Little ones are common, but its tough to find the bigger ones (over 14 inches).

At least the reds are coming back, and hopefully the speck release program at the Gulf Coast Research Lab will be successful. I think this spring was the first time they released speck fingerlings (and I think some larger ones too) in Biloxi bay.

[JimmyJam]

Many years ago (longer than I care to remember) I used to catch big mullet in the very far upper reaches of Davis bayou. We would catch them in the late summer and fall with cane poles and red wigglers. We would ease along the bank of the bayou looking for a school of mullet. The we would slip in front of the school, and set the cane poles out with the wiggler about 2 inches below a tiny cork. When the mullet came upon the wiggler, the fight was on! They were BIG mullet, and when you are 6 or 7 years old, it was as good as catching a giant marlin!

Dang, I feel old just thinking about it now...Good times! :)

I used to catch freshwater mullet on Leaf river and in the gravel pits around Glendale when the river was up and foamy. They are a blast to catch on a flyrod, but I never tried to eat any of them.