mullet

[sharkster]

s'cuse my ignorance as I'm well and truly inland, but are the mullet in our waters all year round and are they likely to behave in the same manner in winter as in summer! i.e. location.

[syisafterbigbass]

Hi i live in poole dorset and mullet are in harbour all year round

[Bigjuicybass:P]

Yeah i think along the south and southwest coasts they are present all year, however most places further north I believe lack their presence in the winter.

[Jamie Donnelly]

the river i live next to has mullet all year (about 4 miles inland). i caught my first one in march using my 14ft beachcaster, 3oz lead, 1/0 flapper and 4 garden worms loaded on the hook!!!!!

thats when i first started out.

Jamie

[Towelie]

the river i live next to has mullet all year (about 4 miles inland). i caught my first one in march using my 14ft beachcaster, 3oz lead, 1/0 flapper and 4 garden worms loaded on the hook!!!!!

thats when i first started out.

Jamie

lol a beach caster for mullet :g: was it a big river?

ive still not managed a mullet :schmoll: hopefully ill manage to get one b4 the end of 2007 :)

[cressst]

lol a beach caster for mullet :g: was it a big river?

ive still not managed a mullet :schmoll: hopefully ill manage to get one b4 the end of 2007 :)

1 Cod, Chesel beach 4lb, lug stuffed to the gunnel up the line.
Greedy bugger.

Sorry boys, emptied Chesel for this year!Thugsey
www.freewebs.com/thugsey/ :giveup:

[TomBettle]

Mullet are alledgedly down here in the South and South West all year.
I regualrly fish for them, but I am extremely lazy and stalk them around which ever marina I happen to be working in.
Both on the Hamble at our office there and here in Salterns in Poole Harbour, the Mullet most definitely disappear when the water hits about 10 degrees and come back in early April.

Syisafterbigbass may know where they are in Poole Harbour after they leave my marina, but being lazy I can't be bothered to go hunting for them and so as far as I am concerend they are now gone until the Spring.

One sure fire place to catch them through the Winter is Alderney. Give Mark at Alderney Angling a call and he will set you up for some mega Mullet fishing right the way through.

Tom

[oakley_ten]

I was born & bred in Hamworthy. I fished Poole Harbour for years and years and used to ring net mullet from a Poole Canoe for pocket money, foul hooked loads of them in the power station outfall - but I never, ever caught one fair and square!

There used to be an old boy that fished opp the Nelson on the quay who would ground bait them with bread and float fish them. I tried it and blanked!

They are a nightmare to catch in my opinion.

[thecornish1]

mullet in the rivers behave the same all year round, but open water species seem to get a bit more scarce during winter months, they also seem to feed at low water more this time of year. A local mullet legend once told me that his top secret was toffee yoghurt and it seems to work for me. Small harbour rag seem to be the best bait.

A bubble float with light trace, bout 6-8lb mono and size 8 xtra strong specimen, loaded with 2 or 3 small ragworm, this is deadly and not many people know bout this quite suprisingly. If your in the river let your bubble float drift down naturally along the edges as this is where the mullet feed.

martin

[tupsyr]

Just came back from holiday, small island called Rodrigues (Indian Ocean).

Went down to the harbour one day and two lads were fishing for Mullets using the most basic set-up you can imagine, 3 size 8 hooks on 12lbs mono. One was fishing with a wine cork as float the other wasn't. Oh, no rods by the way. Just freelining.

Seemed easy enough to me, they each had a plastic bag full of Mullets. I even went down there the next day to try it myself. Could only fish for about half and hour, was leaving that day. Managed two mullets and something else. Oh did catch a red Mullet on prawns a couple of days prior to that.

I have to say though that they weren't monsters like most of us are probably used to seeing in pictures. They were the size of Mackerels. Good fun though.

[bassbites]

mullet in poole harbour can travel miles or they stay in the same area. they tend to move to deep water in the winter mainly towards the channel isle's.. at the moment they starting to move back in and showing under some of the pontoons by the quay. the main problem with ground baiting in the harbour is the tide as the water moves it all over and its not kept in genral area you ground bait. Here by the Quay it's not so much of a problem with all the chips that are fed to the fish by the grokels. I tend to use a bubble float with a 3- 6ft length of line to the mepps spinner with a 6cm length of line to a size 1 hook. i add a short bit of rag worm to the hook that flows behind it. once you get your first few bites you will know how long the bit of rag needs to be. I often just sit on the quay wall with my dog, and a rod that has a bubble float to a single hook which has a a bit of bread on that will just about float or sinks slowly. you can watch the mullet come and mouth your bait but son't strike until you see the fish take your bait fully otherwise it will spit it back out. I know a lot of people say not to use large hooks for mullet, i have caught them with up to size 02 hooks.

[oakley_ten]

I saw a huge shoal of Mullet in the Inner Harbour at Barcelona. The shoal was so dense it seemed that there was no room for anymore fish. I used a photo of it as a screensaver for a while, cannot find the bloody thing now!

[tight-liner]

Am the same as a few guys on here does, bubble float with 6lb line but i use a size 2 crab hook as they hook them on the lips more.
The clear bubble float is half filled with water giving me wieght to cast.
Bread is what i use all the time as i bait up an area with foating bread and sunk bread, then the next morning i go there early and bait up the area again do some bass fishing for an hour or two near the mullet area and then go back most fish take the floating bread as they have done earlier.