BASS or MULLET ? ? ?

**dany_boy9** · 29-04-2007, 20:25

I was fishing tonight as the tide was coming in over rocky ground and I could clearly see fish breaking the surface / turning and even a couple of jumps.

However no takes. I had a rod with soft crab or fresh lug, and another rod spinning many different lures and spinners. NO TAKES, not even a bite.

Thants why I think I might be mistaking bass for mullet - but I don't think so!

Do bass jump (or is it mackrel?) what are the main differences between bass and mullet appearance in the water?? (not birdseye view?)

Thanks.

**geffaz** · 29-04-2007, 20:53

seen mullet on the beach just pocking ther noses obove the water!
buggers to catch when ther just sunning them selves like that!

**Sharkey** · 30-04-2007, 03:09

I reckon a mullet mate, they roll about basking in the sun and will ignore food that is right in front of them - very frustrating!

**dean_gifford** · 30-04-2007, 09:42

the best way ive found for telling the difference bettweem bass and mullet ing the water is that bass oftan have darker backs but the key feature i look at is the front of the head, bass = pointed head, mullet = blunt head.

**terry evans** · 02-05-2007, 00:31

Probably mullet, I made the same mistake when I was a youngster and enthusiastically told my father I saw hundreds of bass jumping out of the water etc

**dabcatcher** · 02-05-2007, 09:32

you can watch them doing that every day in plwhelli marins channel. just cruising and turning as they go by. huge fish and lots of shoals. cant tempt them with anything as they are traveling to the mud flats further into the marina.

**kelvindavies11** · 02-05-2007, 10:54

Thats a damn good question, I'm not sure but from a birds eye view, i was told that mullet have the pointer nose????

But there must be other ways fo telling them apart, surely some people have got a answer.

kelvin

**Big_Jay** · 02-05-2007, 11:16

mullet have the more blunt head, bass have the pointeer head, also mullet will "flash" roll over on they side and flash more than bass will, also look at how many fish there are mullet ill swim round in 20+ its not oftern u see that many bass round is it

**dean_gifford** · 02-05-2007, 14:59

Hey kelvin, mullet definatly have blunter heads, after hours of throwing plugs at them and only having turns at them i've learned that now. Very valid point about the shoal size, but smaller bass ive seen bass to around 2lb [But genarally smaller] be in shoals easy 40 strong, great fun on a small spinning rod and a set of feathers with a plug behind them. but bigger bass seem to be in groups of maybe 4-7 where as big mullet will mingle with small mullet which reasults in massive shoals.

I think bass will only mingle with similer size fish because big bass will eat little bass.