Smoked fishing expedition

Once-popular preparation now scarce north of Florida

Men fishing off Cape Charles, Virginia in 1947/ Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, Library of Virginia

By Hanna Raskin

On a highway north of Morehead City, North Carolina this summer, I was passed by a white pickup truck with a decal reading “Smoked Mullet.”

Right away, I knew it was best that the phrase wasn’t preceded by the bumper sticker cliché “I brake for.” That poor guy would never stop.

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