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Originally Posted by Old Man Dave
One last point. We've been talking about the common thick lipped grey mullet. The smaller rarer golden grey mullet has a different feeding system. It eats worms etc and is itself a delicious fish to eat. Much better than bass or bream, well in my opinion anyway.
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It still depends on the area. Golden gray mullet is the most common in our waters and they eat the same things the other mullets eat, including excrements
. But Dave is right that the fish's food is processed and if cleaned properly the meat can be vary tasty.
My favourite mullet to eat is the Мugil cephalus or Flathead mullet. It grows significantly bigger than the golden gray mullet and its meat is white and tender, but the taste depends very much on whether the fish spends time in fresh water or not.
In the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea most of the mullets migrate to warmer waters in the autumn but some remain in the rivers or lakes during the winter. The taste of these fish is very different from those caught in the sea. Their meat is sweet and soft and I don't like it.
We have another kind of mullet Mugil soiuy or So-iuy mullet, which is a little yellowish with red eyes. It reportedly grows up to 20 kilos
but the biggest I've seen was 6 kilos. They taste like crap
too much fat.
