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I've eaten several Mullet this year, they tasted excellent, similar to Bass but a slightly stronger taste. We actually preferred it to bass. Interestingly TV chef Hugh Fernely-Wittingstall also preferred Mullet to Bass on the recent River Cottage Goes Fishing programme.do you eat mullet?
Me too but still for some reason (snobbery I guess) Bass is still my preferred choice of prey when hunting.I've eaten several Mullet this year, they tasted excellent, similar to Bass but a slightly stronger taste. We actually preferred it to bass. Interestingly TV chef Hugh Fernely-Wittingstall also preferred Mullet to Bass on the recent River Cottage Goes Fishing programme.
Location of the fish does seem to have a big influence on what it tastes like. Clean water Mullet are quite superbFoxfish has mentioned previously that Mullet are related to Bass but the taste of mullet varies much more than Bass, presumably with location/diet/... andhe recommended removing the lateral line (red flesh? I didn't notice this).
ive tried gutting fish in the water, and 'recycling' the guts as chum. didnt work though
what is a soldering iron? and how do you 'whip it with cord'??
Strangely I saw many more Mullet than Bass this year too. Last year there were some shoals of smaller fish around a couple of the regular spots. This year the shoals were still there but the fish seemed to be much bigger. I thought they had just grown but I'm told that Mullet are very slow growing so perhaps they were actually just different fish? Who knows but yes much much more of them, or was it just far fewer BassHi Pastor, yes Bass is still something special. Last year I never saw a single mullet - only bass & wrasse. This year I've seen far more large mullet than large bass (I've seen several large shoals of small bass). However, I take them as they come. Both are most welcome & the mullet are tremendous fighters, pound for pound.
We do have a nuclear power station on Anglesey that pumps out warm water, I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
I was surprised by Pastors answer to this. I would have said this is normal. In fact, if the barb is tight, I make sure that I oil it, so that it can open freely. However, I agree with Pastor that the barb on my RA only opens so far, and when fully open, it has a tendency to stay open (this is less critical for SA spears as they hang down and gravity tends to keep them open anyway). Perhaps your barb is particularly loose.instead of opening a new thread:
the flopper on my spear seems really loose, it opens and closes whenever it wants, and if i open it all the way, the hold the spear upright, it just folds back down. should it be like this?
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