Mullet Season 2006

[Leon Roskilly]

Popped down to Gillingham Pier to greet the incoming tide, mainly for a bike ride.

 

No lip-marks

 

Water felt very cold when mixing my bread mash

 

Stayed about an hour, no sign of fish, bit cold and breezy so left it for another day.

[sam-cox]

there are lip marks in bradwell marina and there are quite a few to. But I will not bother for a few weeks!

[Jim Roper]

Jim are you sure about the fleet? The only mullet I have caught there are golden greys that average about 3 ozs? Mike Channon tells me there are a few there but I don't think there is many over even 5lb not that Mick has ever had. Kimeridge is the only place better than the harbour around here?

 

You just carry on believing that, then!

 

I've caught plenty around the 7lb mark in nets in the Fleet.

 

The following is copied from another forum.

 

As fishermen get older and are not as active, they are not so protective of their knowledge and tricks.

On Friday I ran into a chap, now in his mid 60's, whose family has netted more Bass and Mullet in the Fleet than anyone else.

I should have asked him in front of the well known angler who was at the time picking up some pheasants that I owed him but I forgot so I went back to find him on Saturday.

"What were the biggest Bass and Mullet that you ever caught". I asked him.

"The biggest Bass was nearly eight and a half kilos" He said. "The biggest Mullet would have been a bit smaller. Just over seven kilos" He added.

 

As he quoted kilos and not lbs, I imagine these catches were in recent years.

 

Are you starting to dribble?

Edited April 28, 2006 by Jim Roper

[Jim Roper]

Not jigged, caught on rag on the bottom though

Tell that to a Portland Dockyard worker!

 

Are sea fish that are caught in non-public areas, eligible for records?

[Norm B]

Tell that to a Portland Dockyard worker!

 

Are sea fish that are caught in non-public areas, eligible for records?

Yes, as long as they are fairly caught on rod and line, weighed on checkable scales, properly identified and witnessed.

[WeymouthSean]

Had two more mullet since my last post. Really caneing the bread off the top now! Just had nothing bigger than 3lb 10oz yet?

 

10 Trips and 5 fish now!

[BREAMAGAIN]

Had two more mullet since my last post. Really caneing the bread off the top now! Just had nothing bigger than 3lb 10oz yet?

 

10 Trips and 5 fish now!

 

 

 

Slow down Sean , you'll have 'em spooked as hell before Andy and I get there !

[Andrew Boyd]

Breamagain . . I'd already "PM'd" Sean with the same comments!

[WeymouthSean]

Breamagain . . I'd already "PM'd" Sean with the same comments!

 

Didn't worry Andrew & Breamagain. Just getting them turned onto the bread nicely for you! By the time you get there they will be taking it out of your hands! There are thousands at the moment! Took another tonight! and hooked up 2 more that got off!

 

Going to Falmouth Tomorrow so I will have to give them a rest here. Any mullet down in the falmouth estuery!

[Jim Roper]

Still loads of mullet trying to get through the New Bridge sluices into Radipole lake.

As soon as the outflow stops, they disperse into the rest of the harbour until the next tide.