mullet

**sharkster** · 03-11-2006, 19:30

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** · 06-11-2006, 21:47

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

**Bigjuicybass:P** · 15-12-2006, 19:44

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** · 16-12-2006, 08:31

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** · 16-12-2006, 23:20

Originally Posted by 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

lol a beach caster for mullet

was it a big river?

ive still not managed a mullet

hopefully ill manage to get one b4 the end of 2007

**cressst** · 17-12-2006, 11:07

Originally Posted by Towelie

lol a beach caster for mullet

was it a big river?

ive still not managed a mullet

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/

TomBettle · 17-12-2006, 11:14

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** · 20-12-2006, 21:42

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** · 02-01-2007, 16:55

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** · 03-01-2007, 11:19

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.