Let ‘em fly: Mullet Toss returns to the Flora-Bama this weekend
Updated 10:38 AM;
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It’s almost time to fling some fish: The Flora-Bama’s annual Interstate Mullet Toss opens Friday and runs through Sunday.
As the accompanying images illustrate, the central activity is a competition in which children, adults and local beach celebrities go for distance records as they fling small fish from Florida into Alabama. Between participants, spectators and collateral activity such as live music, the even tends to draw tens of thousands of people over the course of a weekend.
Last year’s event was among many threatened with cancellation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers were able to keep the annual tradition alive with a smaller fall event planned on short notice, but this weekend should bring a return to form.
Mullet Toss returns April 23-25; Flora-Bama lays out some rules
Updated 11:19 AM;
Just because a party involves hurling dead fish into a neighboring state, doesn’t mean there aren’t rules. The famed Flora-Bama has laid some down for its upcoming Mullet Toss.
The Mullet Toss, or as it is formally billed, the Interstate Mullet Toss & Gulf Coast’s Greatest Beach Party, returns to pre-pandemic form the weekend of April 23-25.
As you might recall, COVID-19 not only resulted in the postponement of the 2020 toss, it made for an incredibly topsy-turvy year at the roadhouse overlooking the Gulf of Mexico from the Alabama-Florida line. The venue shut down as a promising spring break season vaporized, then reopened as a restaurant. In early June Florida allowed bars to open at 50% capacity, but it was only a few weeks before a surge in COVID-19 cases prompted Gov. Ron DeSantis to shut them down again. The Flora-Bama went back to being a restaurant, which lasted all the way through Ju
THE LEGENDARY INTERSTATE MULLET TOSS RETURNS April 23rd-25th, 2021
GET READY FOR A REVIVED INTERSTATE MULLET TOSS! This year, we re letting it all fly! The Interstate Mullet Toss & Gulf Coast’s Greatest Beach Party is legendary. What started as just a reason to party has become one of the biggest beach parties on the coast. Those who participate in the Mullet Toss will throw a dead mullet over the state line of Florida and Alabama to see who gets the farthest. Hotel bookings are done months, if not years in advance for this event. People travel from across the globe to see what all the fuss is about here at the Flora-Bama; the memories are priceless.
THE LEGENDARY INTERSTATE MULLET TOSS RETURNS April 23rd-25th, 2021
GET READY FOR A REVIVED INTERSTATE MULLET TOSS! This year, we re letting it all fly! The Interstate Mullet Toss & Gulf Coast’s Greatest Beach Party is legendary. What started as just a reason to party has become one of the biggest beach parties on the coast. Those who participate in the Mullet Toss will throw a dead mullet over the state line of Florida and Alabama to see who gets the farthest. Hotel bookings are done months, if not years in advance for this event. People travel from across the globe to see what all the fuss is about here at the Flora-Bama; the memories are priceless.