Help Identify These Fish Please

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The one on the left is called Sam. I don't know the others.

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The one on the far right is Herman and the one to the left of Herman is Fingers.

That's fish fingers and fish herman. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I'll get my coat
 
I was once walking around with the kids at low tide on the Taff estuary. We came across some mullet stuck in a shallow pool and grabbed them - well we had a barbecue planned. Walking back with 2 or 3 big mullet we met a serious looking angler, he asked how we had caught them. Well, I replied, we just beat them to death with a stick. If looks could kill!
 
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As they seem to spend a lot of time sucking weed and slime off the bottom of yachts, ......

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off buoys, off pontoons, but for some reason, not off my boat. I wish they would, then I wouldn't need to scrub so often!
 
Grey mullet, likely to be the thick lip ones. Use a spear gun to get them; they taste very nice; better than bass. In the Med, mullet is the most expensive fish. For some reason , in the UK is not very popular; then again nor is the red Mullet (no relation with the grey mullet). Marinate it in olive oil and lemmon juice and then put on the barbeque.
 
Yes they are grey mullet but unlike others, most of whom have probably never eaten them, I do like them cooked. Many many years ago there was a French owned restaurant near where I lived that had oven baked whole mullet as a speciality and it was excellent. Rick Stein reccomends them in his TV shows and in his books and lists them as a suitable alternative to bass in some recipes. Local fishermen in Poole net them too and there is a market for them and of course in France they are on every fishmonger's counter.

I've caught them using just a small hook embedded in a chunk of bread foating on the surface, with other similar chunks scattered around to attract them. Filleted and pan fried they are delicious.

I've also caught them in the past with a speargun from the pontoons in Salcombe Bag, but the refraction makes aiming rather more difficult than it might seem! These days Salcombe is too expensive even with a free fish or two thrown in.
 
They will nose around the weed on your mooring , so hang over the bow with a sharp gaff in the water next to the chain, wait about four hours til you get one in position, then strike, hitting your elbow on the pulpit, jump around swearing, get in the tender and retrieve the gaff.
My friend used to lay on a branch overhanging the water with an air pistol on a string, the idea was to shoot and stun the fish then drop off the branch and grab it before it came to. He never got one either. They have been caught on surf ridden beaches with a seine, or ring net, a ton or two at a time. Takes several boats and a lot of men.
 
err, running the knife from vent towards gills ? Easier and safer the other way round ? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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