MULLET fried and smoked! {Cast net, clean, cook) Bonus smoked fish dip recipe!
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2024
- On this episode we go out and cast net a mess of roe mullet! I take them home and fry the roe, backs and filets. Also I smoke some and share my secret fish dip recipe!
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I live up in the panhandle and when I was a kid my Dad used to butterfly the mullet and smoked it with salt,pepper and squeeze lemon juice over it after they smoked awhile…That was over 50 years ago….good memories.
Man I would love to time travel to Florida back then!
One of the memories I have as a kid is my dad hand tying his cast net in the living room and then eating the smoked mullet it caught with it. We used to practice throwing it out in the yard to make sure we could get it to open as kids.
I can remember learning to throw a net the same way!
Both of you are in for a treat!
Fresh fried mullet and roe are outstanding with fries or grits!😊
Smoked mullet not so much!
Fried mullet is great, BUT, smoked is still my fave (if done right, not dried out) arrrrrr
Ian, that was a really good one. I am a mullet eating fool. The back bone is the best. You can find mullet and swamp cabbage on all the buffet's in Horse Shoe Beach, Cross City, and Branford area. I dearly love it. Thank you for another great video. Give the ladies my love. God Bless
Thanks Sam
Is that Sammy Norman of Baker County Fame?
Tug, I love eating mullet and red roe is the best, don't eat to much roe or you will be in the bathroom sitting down. Mullet is a good cheap fish. Syrup is good on roe. I would love to come to saint Augustine and go fishing with you.
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My wife & i just returned to Brisbane from a 6 week holiday for my daughters wedding in Eden New South Wales where they re-opened the Sapphire Smokehouse 2551 & I was blessed to sample much of the food they sell & I am now converted to smoking all kinds of meat & fish. Her & her new husband are just loaded with ideas for Dips, Fish Meats & now even doing smoked chilli chocolate that is selling like hot cakes.
Here in the South(USA) we smoke every thing!
@@TugTrashOutdoors yeppers.... smoked mullet clears your mind unlike other things smoked ;o)
I grew up on the lost coast eating mullet almost every weekend. fillets, backbones, yellow roe, and GIZZARDS! You cant forget the gizzards.
Next year!
Grew up on west coast of Fla, poor, eating mullet couple times a week kept us going, cousins always smoked them, my Mom always fried them and always served with a big pot of grits! Keep up the good work!
You can almost figure a lot of Florida was brought up on fish and grits!
Hay Capt. You missed the mullet gizzard, we used to pull beach seines at Ponce Inlet for roe mullet, we would cut the head off butterfly the fish leaving the backbone in and smoke it that way about 500lbs at a time and sell it whole, we would take the roe and gizzard and fry them and have a dock party for all the guys on the boats, always a good time, love your videos brother.
Thank you sir! That sounds like a like a blast
Pack that row with salt for a week then fry it, you can brine it to your taste to .I'm glad you did this, because rowmullet was a large staple food back in the day,especially smoked with grits a grape jelly.
Interesting
Great video and family fun. A few suggestions: bleed the mullet as soon as you dump them out of the net; immediately after bleeding, get them in a saltwater slurry (mullet are very oily and will heat up quickly); avoid eating blood meat by cutting it out or scraping off after cooking. Mullet is my favorite for smoked fish dip.
Can’t beat smoked mullet dip
I was raised on fried and smoked mullet and grits, yummy. Also love the roe. We also ate gizzard and livers. Daddy called them chicken of the sea.
Cool!
My dad used to smoke mullet using an old refrigerator he converted to a smoker. Then he used peanut butter to baste them. Just smeared some peanut butter off them when they got a little brown. People ranted and raved over his mullet. He would sell them for $5 a fish sometimes.
Very interesting!
For what we fix up here on the bay is great shade row with capers, onions and celery with eggs benedick and the rest of the fish we make fish cakes out of shade. For what you have done here today is the world that I grew up with. So keep them coming my young friend, for I love them all the way.
Thanks for all the support!
Aloha. What is shade?
Enjoyed your mullet video but you forgot the gizzards (chicken of the sea)
Great video Tug! The backs looked the crispiest & tastiest by far. Crystal’s reaction to the roe said it all. Lol. The smoked dip is way more up my alley.
Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
9:53 the roe are very good fried. they usually sell the roes separated or charge a higher price for the mullet with the roe. because are very good fried.
I grew up and still eat mullet this way. It's great fish. This is how we do it in North florida.
Love me a Mullet! I grew up eating them and the row, we fried the row in a pan with butter, no breading just salt and pepper.
Sounds great!
We love us some friend and smoked mullet. Never would have thought to fry the roe. Nice work Ian and Krystal!! And Bianca! 👏🏼
Thanks buddy
A lot of people from the coastal Carolinas cook their herring, shad, and mullet roe mixed in scrambled eggs pan fried in butter and eaten with grits! Just another way to try them! Big fan! 😊😊😊
Shad run is starting so I might try that
Mullets are best eaten straight out of the water.. RAW, FRESH!😋 And the roe, the same way!! Smoked? I guess I'll have to try when I can get it that way. I've had mullets raw, fried, boiled, but not smoked. From Polynesia to Texas, your videos are therapeutic.👍
I’ll have to try it raw someday!
Most definitely raw,is the best way fresh,with lemon and coconut cream
As I'm saying to myself I didn't know they got that big you literally said I'm sure some of you didn't know they get that big Awesome I love watching anything new
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amazing video i was raised on mullet and that backstrap is what the older folks would give us kids . mullet was a favorite bye my grandmother too. she loved the roe when i think of her i normally cook mullet in her memory with fried okra hot sauce n mustard
Very cool!
Summer mullet from clean water hands down the best for frying. At least on the west coast
Got ya
Ian, it was nice to see your brother with you on this video
I do like me some fried catfish roe here in east Texas. Y'all stay safe and keep em comin
Hopefully he is in more video in the future
I've never done mullet roe, but we used mahi roe and mixed it in with scrambled eggs
Nice
You just throwed a craving on me! When I was growing up we had fried mullet every Friday night. (a neighborhood thing) and the roe when we could get it!
Awesome!
Ian- I've always used mullet for bait, but never really thought about eating it. Thanks to you, I gotta go throw my net and give them a shot now. Gonna put some in my new Louisiana smoker as well. Thanks for another excellent video Sir, and from the Texas gulf coast, have a blessed day.
Thank you!
I definitely love smoked but not a fan of fried mullet. The roe is like cornbread when I smoked it. A friend of mine cans mullet and says it’s not fishy at all. Have some buddies who commercial fish them and I help out every now and then. It’s a sight to see all the guys castnetting in some of the worst conditions of the year when they run. I’ve had them swimming around the deck with all the water we were talking on.
I’ll definitely stick to smoking them! Maybe fry the backs
I got out on the ice today for the first time this season. 4 degrees out. No fish, but at least I got some fresh air. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Love them all.
Good stuff!
I love to catch and eat smoked mullet myself. For those that don’t have a smoker, try scaling and gutting the mullet. Put them on the grill with the dorsal fin between the grates so they are belly up. Add some seasoning, liquid smoke and garlic butter to the belly cavity. Slow cook @ 200 degrees until the meat is flaky. Tastes almost as good as smoking them. What’s left over I make chip dip out of.
Nice!
sooo,, ok!
I lived in Florida for 17 years, and never tried mullet.
Then 10 years ago we moved to the southeast coast of NC and I hear anglers talking about eating it. So of course I had to try it!
Now the gentleman that was telling me about fixing it says he does it on the half shell, on the grill. He said throw it scale side down and let it cook until you don't see any more oil dripping out of it. No more oil, it's ready to eat.
Well, I can't use a grill at our rental property, so I filleted it off the skin and bones and deep fried it. I tried frying it the same as any other fish for the first piece, and didn't really care for it,, a little too strong tasting to me. So I fried the next piece longer,, till it was a deep golden brown. That piece was delicious! At least I thought so,, my wife still didn't care for it.
Now I see your version of it with smoking it,,, and I can't wait till next fall when the big roe mullet come through! And I'm for sure doing the dip with it!
But question: what wood did you use for the smoke?
By the way,, first time seeing you and I'm subscribed! Looking forward to more videos/recipes!
Maybe I'll share my false albacore dip recipe with you!
Thanks for the Sub! Smoked is so good. I think I used hickory but oak is good too
My brother and I go castnet,we wave, boy what fun we have, then we go home and smoke them , some with bar beque cause,we 4 feet long 😊❤ Bradenton Florida
I grew up eating Florida east coast mullet, I now live in the Florida big bend and the mullet just taste better here in the saltwater. November to December the roe mullet are running. I’m still not sold on the roe yet, but think I just haven’t cooked it right yet. Mullet fishing is my favorite fish to target.
Very cool!
Great show once again. As a kid I used to snag hook mullet from giant migrating schools. No one in my family ever thought of eating them but my grandfathers domestic help seemed happy when I brought these large black mullet. Maybe they were just humoring me. I like smoked mullet on occasion but not my favorite.
Sounds fun!
Child....I love mullet fish. My grandma would go fishing and she would always catch me some mullet because not many bones. The yellow roe is my favorite...hot sauce!!
Love it
In the 60s and 70s, we would pull a 300-foot net at Micklers. We get 150lbs a pull. Normally, about 4 families were part of it. Mom would fry some on the beach for us. Then we spent the weekend smoking the rest.
Good times
I grew up in Jacksonville and we used to go on the weekends to Big Talbot Island on the jetty's back in the 1970s and we would take a big long net about 50 ft long and we would make a round and pull them to the edge of the bank we'd fill up about 5 48 quart coolers in less than 30 minutes when they were running in schools. We did that every year for the family reunion and had big smoke smoked mullet and fried mullet we would eat the gizzards also fried yes, mullet has a gizzard like a chicken. Great times and good memories.
Must have been a sight to see!
I grew up hearing about fried mullet and smoked mullet. Glad you tackled the subject. Next, smoked Tarpon! Lol
That should get some views!
I used to eat fried mullet row as a kid with my dad with hot sauce. He loved to smoke mullet and fry the row.
Great memories
I got pictures of my Daddy in his boxers wading way out in the bay with his cast net that he made back in the 50'sand 60's. We always had fried mullet!!! Flounder and redfish!!! We always had lots of fish Fry's on the beach!!!
The best description on the taste is oily, also if you get rid of the skin that reduces the oily flavor, mustard goes well as a condiment and good ole Texas Pete, love your videos, Keepm coming 😉👍
Great tip! 🤙🏽
Im on the west coast our mullet aren't quite that big those are huge and yes we love mullet and the roe smoked or fried. Keep the vids coming bro we loved the tug boat vid you are quickly becoming our favorite channel ❤️
Thank you very much!
I love how real your videos are.
Thank you
I’m from St Croix VI, grew up on the east end of the island. Mullet was a main stay so was the roe. Also the rod of other fish. Ocean Gar and the roe is also very good 👍🏽
Very cool
The look on Mullets face when you told him he was going on the smoker 😂
🤣
People here in tx won't eat mullet but the next time I get some big ones I am going to fry them up. Thanks for the video!
Hope you enjoy
There is an old seafood restaurant near Gulf😊 Shores which is known for frying mullet. It was really good. Can’t recall name.
Oh wow!
Sea n suds
TT you are so raw I love it, never have tried mullet but I can't wait to try. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much
I like this video so much mullet is one of my favorite fish I always wondered what the back would taste like fried like you did so glad you did it. I could taste that fish dip I saved this video to my fishing playlist keep them coming
Awesome thank you!
The mullet you caught might be too big to "butterfly." That seems to be popular in "The Forgotten Coast" and "Big Bend " areas of Fla. When butterflied, the back bone is included in one of the filet sides. Pretty darn good fried.
Yep
I live in Mobile,Al and we eat mullet every you just prepared it. My tip
would be to bleed them immediately when you catch them and when you filet them leave a little meat on the skin . In other words don’t rub your knife on against the skin like you normally do when filleting a fish. That leaves that dark meat attached to the skin and makes it taste less fishy. I love the roe, but I have noticed the taste is not consistent from fish to fish. I think the flavor depends on how long the mullet has been carrying the eggs. Anyway, great video !
All good points!
Yall crack me up! Good down to Earth people! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you!
The first smoked fish I ever tasted was at bait shop that I used to supply with blood worms & he was selling these very small smokers & he was smoking mullet for customers to taste test , Hot straight off the smoker it was delicious . But in Australia we either deep fry our fish either skin on skin off in Batter or Breadcrumbs , served with salt & pepper Tartare sauce & a couple wedges of Lemon.
Oh ya I like it fried in breadcrumbs
Oh man!! That mullet spread.has got to be the best!!❤
So good!
Love your videos man keep em coming
Thanks! Will do!
In the 70s and early 80s I was an executive chef over six restaurants in Boca Raton & West Palm Beach, I'm retired I probably made thousands of pounds of smoked fish dip in my life. I have to say professionally your dip looked really good, I just subscribed to your channel can't wait to see some future videos ,stay safe stay strong stay healthy God bless,😢
Thanks man! I try to cook better than your average catch clean cook CZcamsrs
Can’t wait to try Mullet dip.Thanks Tug Bruh
Any time
Sounds awesome! Been wanting to try this one!!!!❤
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Wanna make some smoked fish dip!
Love what you do!!!! Keep it up
Thank you! Will do!
We never threw that away because they are very good fried.y mother use to fish for mullet,brim, catfish ECT.
Loved the video guys!
Thanks
Awesome video man loved it
Thanks a ton!
DAT fish dip looked all kinds of delicious! I really need to try that dip and the smoke mullet. Thanks for sharing! 🐊
Works with any smoked fish too. I watch your channel! Thanks for watching!
Awesome video! The mullet and the dip looked really delicious. Good job!
Thanks for watching
Delicious Tug. We love it up here in northwest Florida Milton/Pensacola area. Angler Up Brent Peacher grew up eating row mullets and back bones
Very cool!
Never had mullet roe but loved freshwater fish roe. Just had to be careful frying and slit sac to prevent exploding open in frying. I imagine the fish dip was good.
Best dip I’ve had in a long time
I been eating roe from bluegill , bream and catfish for 57 years . Love it
Nice
Appreciate you sharing they are huge yesssir great video
I appreciate it
Grew up eating fried roe, and the white roe. Fried mullet, grits and gravy was every other week seems like, and we smoked them all the time. I still to this day fry all my speck roe or any roe for that matter. Also you can look up Batarga it is dried mullet roe from Italy and is used in pasta dishes, very expensive btw. Keep up the good work and stay safe brother.
Every speck I caught last week had roe!
My family were some of the first that settled Cortez in Bradenton as commercial mullet fisherman. My dad always fried the mullet with potato pancakes and tomato gravy.
That sounds good!
They look absolutely delicious I will try your recipes thank you
Please do!
Great job will need to try
Hope you enjoy
The smoked mullet spread looked so good!! 👏🔥
Thanks
Another great video! That little dolphin was putting on a show the whole week we were down there. He's got some spunk.
Yes sir! I was just south of the campground
Aloha. Lived on the gulf coast for middle school and high school. Mullet everywhere. Love the fact Bianca is more adventurous food wise.
She will try anything
I've tried some yellow perch roe fried. It was ok. Your description was about what I experienced. Not something I would go out of my way to eat. Shout out from the frozen tundra of Wisconsin!
Thanks man! Stay warm!
A recipe with roe is to steam it. In aluminum foil with the roe, season it with some salt and maybe msg. Add lemon grass into the roe. Set up your steamer and steam it until it's cooked. This is kinda a bare bones type of thing with nothing fancy. You'll taste the flavor of your raw ingredients of fish roe and herbs.
Sounds great!
Man you got to go and make us hungry.. Sheesh.. Looked delicious! Thanks for sharing! 👍👍
Any time!
@@TugTrashOutdoors 👍👍
Just happen to stumble upon your video and totally love it. Fried mullet is delicious as well as the roe. I would love to try smoking them in the future but living in NYC, it's hard to get access to a smoker. Subscribed!
Game changer, instead of putting your fried fish on paper towels when you pull them out of the oil, get a metal grill that will suspend the fish above the paper. It lets the fish drain so much better. Love your channel, wish y'all the best.
Great tip!
I was raised eating fried mullet. My Daddy had a mullet boat we would catch hundreds of pounds. The row was a treat!!! The panhandle is where we would be in the choctawhachee bay all the time!! We had a secret recipe called southern fried mullet!!!
Yum! Good times!
Great Video as always. Now I want some smoked mullet dip!!
So good
Here in the south of Brazil we usually fish for mullets during may to june...fried or grilled mullets are tasty. U can check for "tainhas em florianopolis" and you're gonna see it.
I’m gonna look that up!
I usually only eat ocean mullet. Because river mullet is sometimes muddy. But, you're close enough to the ocean.
Where I'm from, we ate this fish mullet raw. We ate everything, from the head to it tail including the white and yellow roe. You should try that. 😄
Interesting
Looks so good!
It was!
My dudes passing hospital creek in the beginning. Awesome to see a other local in the area
Yes sir
I love the mullet dip recipe I hope to try it soon!
Good for any smoked fish
Your front door color is enough for a Toadfish sponsorship for life. I like it
Haha toadfish everything!
Stale Kracker has taken the world by storm! make that fish dip how youuuu like it doooood. I prefer the food mixer to keep the fish chunked up. Otherwise the same process. Will try the roe next time I get ahold of some!
Man I can’t put anything on a cracker without saying it lol
Nice touch on the cast net! Takes some talent!
I’m not perfect but I get it done
Those mullets look good to make a nice West Indian Guyanese curry (🇬🇾🇬🇾) the best way for people who don't like to eat fish because of the fishy taste..wash it with lemon's, l personally washes all my meats and fish with lemon's.
Cheers from Niagara Falls Canada 🇬🇾🇨🇦🇬🇾🇨🇦🇬🇾
I usually rub my fish in lime juice before I fry it actually
Here in East Texas, we fry our catfish backbones. Almost no waste.
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Skin on fried is the best in my opinion! Fried backbones make the best appetizers
I liked the backs best.
awesome vid !!!!
And now I know how to make it.
Thank you, guys...
Thank you!
Made me miss my little brothers, lost both of them to heroin overdoses, appreciate the time brotha
Man I’m sorry to her that
I love mullet,Great Video🐟👏🙏
Thanks for watching
Yellow roe for me love fried mullet. I grew up fishing Keaton Beach area and eating mullet and swamp cabbage.
That is awesome!
Great vid brings back memories from growing up in SW Ga and eating fried mullet. I'm not big on the row kinda mealy and dry but them back bones are the BOMB. I don't like a strong fish tasting fish so smoking the sides for dip frying the back bones and tossing the row is my way to do mullet. There is another fish we always eat but it's freshwater fish called a redhorse sucker if you ever get the chance DONT pass it up.
The backs were great