Mullet

[Leon Roskilly]

Has anyone tried catching mullet from a kayak?

 

Given their liking for getting under things like boats, I was wondering whether they might come near to a kayak, especially if there was a breadbag over the side.

 

Maybe a float fished close to the kayak, with a flake of bread on a size 8 hook .........

 

Then there's quite a few likely looking spots in my estuary where there is no access from the shoreside, but a kayak moored to a wooden piling beneath an old wooden dock would be just the place to regularly leave a bread bag, knowing that it isn't going to be interfered with, or someone is going to fish your spot (except another kayaker perhaps!).

 

Tight Lines - leon

 

[ 11. July 2005, 02:34 PM: Message edited by: Leon Roskilly ]

[musket]

I had been thinking along the same lines-apart from the idea of actually attaching the bread net along side the actual kayak...food for thought,

Jon

[darnsarf]

Leon. I have been thinking exactly the same thing. I dont have a kayak but reading this forum has definately wetted my appetite. Anyone kayak in the solent and southampton water?

 

Help I think Ive got the bug

[Simon Everett]

Lots of folks in Soton - poole area.

 

I haven't actually caught a mullet for over 30 years - been trying to get one on the fly and wasted far too many hours doing so. Had one or two tentative takes but nothing that stayed on for longer than a few seconds.

 

I would love to find out how you catch them elsewhere - I used to fish the old fish market in the Barbican, caught a few good flounders at the same time freeloading on the scraps thrown overboard at the dock. That is what the mullet fed on too - tiny scraps of fish flesh on a small hook did the trick in those days.

[Leon Roskilly]

Simon Everett:

I would love to find out how you catch them elsewhere

Simon,

 

Have a look at Mullet FAQs

 

TL - leon

[ColinW]

Simon, read the stuff written by Mike Ladle about fly fishing for mullet, here's an example

http://www.ukswff.co.uk/ladle.htm

There's loads more if you Google his name.

[SpeciMan]

Leon at some point I will be targetting mullet but they're not top of my list at the moment. Christhurch Harbour local to me holds some great fish. Within 15 strokes I spooked a shoal of mullet on my first ever paddle there in late March. I will go back with licence and permit but perhaps not this year. There are also lots of mullet behind Milford(Hurst Shingle Bank) & Poole Harbour-- again other places ideal for safe kayak fishing.

[Leon Roskilly]

Christchurch - Mullet fishing heaven!

 

TL - leon

[nifty]

Hi Leon,

Mullet are definitely on my to do list from the kayak this coming holiday.

 

I have fished three marks this year where the sea has been alive with them around the yak and contrary to popular opinion i have not found them to be particularly shy or easily spooked.

 

Only problem is, on each occasion i havn't been geared up for them. As for the fly, i have tied up some bread flies from white deer hair that look the business(Ha Ha).

 

If they fail, i am certain a pinch of kingsmill will soon have one hooked up.

 

nifty.

[SpeciMan]

Agree about the shyness of the mullet from my limited experience. The mullet I saw in Christchurch Harbour were only spooked after I had paddled right into the shoal. A jacuzzi opened up around me on all sides of the kayak! If I had been aware of their presence I could have got very close without spooking them.