My first 2006 Mullet

[sam-cox]

 

 

This was my first cast on my first attempt for mullet this year.

 

I was bass fishing from a Burnham-on-Crouch jetty and at the same baiting up with bread and maggots at the same time.

After an hour of baiting I stopped fishing for bass and changed to float gear, well the float just kept going, didnt even have time to cock. The result was this fish of just over 6lb.

 

Im now well chuffed!

[RichardB]

Great story that, and a beauty of a fish.

[corydoras]

Well done, and welcome to the merry band of Mulleteers. My first mullet was about the same size. I thought I had got caught up on the back actor of a JCB. I have never targetted another species since that day. Sometimes I do get bass on a bit of bread. My fishing mate had a 6lb bass on a floater!

[macky1]

great fish

 

im gonna have a crack at them this year

no one round here fishes for them but thers plenty

[Elton]

What a cracking fish! Nice one, Sam.

[Snatcher]

Well done Sam,hope to join your ranks shortly

[Matt Baldwin]

what a fish Sam,

 

nice one.

 

Hope its the first of many for the season Sam.

[Leon Roskilly]

what a fish Sam,

 

nice one.

 

Hope its the first of many for the season Sam.

 

 

Wow!

 

Well done Sam.

 

Now to find 'The Big One'

 

So nice to have a whole mulleting season ahead of you.

[sam-cox]

As most of you guys know I mainly target bass, however much of my miss spent youth was spent mullet fishing at Bradwell marina. It took me ten years to learn how to catch them and I didnt catch my first bread caught mullet until I was fifteen.

Now when targeting mullet I mostly fish Burnham marina, but last night it was the Royal Carinthiain jetty that done it for me. We also caught several schoolies on rag and crab baits and my pal Dave lost two better bass.

I havnt tried maggots before and although the fish came to bread flake fish lift bite method I was baiting moderatly with bread and magots for about 1.5 hour before trieing for the mullet.

Has anyone else any experience of using magots for mullut,?

Do swim feeders work? as I normally target them with float tackle and normally catch Im at bit warey of trieing feeders as I think the splash could spook the fish.

Comments please lads!

And thanks for the prase!

Edited June 13, 2006 by sam-cox

[Leon Roskilly]

As most of you guys know I mainly target bass, however much of my miss spent youth was spent mullet fishing at Bradwell marina. It took me ten years to learn how to catch them and I didnt catch my first bread caught mullet until I was fifteen.

Now when targeting mullet I mostly fish Burnham marina, but last night it was the Royal Carinthiain jetty that done it for me. We also caught several schoolies on rag and crab baits and my pal Dave lost two better bass.

I havnt tried maggots before and although the fish came to bread flake fish lift bite method I was baiting moderatly with bread and magots for about 1.5 hour before trieing for the mullet.

Has anyone else any experience of using magots for mullut,?

Do swim feeders work? as I normally target them with float tackle and normally catch Im at bit warey of trieing feeders as I think the splash could spook the fish.

Comments please lads!

And thanks for the prase!

 

 

Sam,

 

I sometimes use a wire-caged block-end swim feeder down the side of a harbour wall or a pontoon fished 'dangly-down' mid water and filled with mashed bread.

 

It's amazing how mullet can empty the feeder yet leave the hook bait alone, despite burying the baited hook in the feeder, or on a very short hooklegth.

 

Bite detection is another problem, as the fish push the feeder about quite violently, but so far I've not managed to deep-hook a mullet with the method, and it's usually when the rod pulls over hard that I realise that a mullet has hooked itself.

 

 

Mind you, I did have one fish on, that I played to the surface, then it opened its mouth.

 

It hadn't taken the hook bait, but had the whole feeder in its mouth, letting go on the surface.

 

(So how come they are shy of a piece of bread with a size 8 hook buried carefully inside, but are happy to take a metal feeder full of bread into their gob? - Bl***y mullet, I'll never understand them!)

 

 

Another trick is simply to leave the feeder rod to act as a 'mullet detector'.

 

When the tip starts bouncing, you know there are feeding mullet down there, and float tackle lowered alongside usually provokes a take, as the bread swirls downwards.

 

 

Fishing the feeder on the bottom in the Medway usually only attracts the crabs, which often snip the hooklength through and steal the hook along with the bait, so I don't bother fishing on the bottom.

 

But in other locations, where crabs aren't such a problem, it's quite a successful method.

Edited June 13, 2006 by Leon Roskilly