Mullet, Madness

[Stoaty]

Saturday afternoon, Gillingham Pier, 3pm (ebbing tide), fiddling around on the boat, the other half says to me, "Look over there quick" ..... I looked and there was a group of three mullet feeding on the scum on the surface of the water. That's the earliest in the year I have ever seen them by a long, long, way. I don't normally expect them to be around the boat till late march early april. The water temperature was reading 6.3°C and It was sunny.

[Matt Baldwin]

WOW!!!!

 

thats realy early.

 

they tyhin lips stoatyy or dont you know?

 

Matt

[Andrew Boyd]

Wow, that must be a record. I though the one I caught in mid March a couple of years ago at Gillingham Pier was early. I'm ultra keen to get out after them again, but I'll still leave it a couple of months notwithstanding.

[Leon Roskilly]

Bloody Mullet!

 

When will they learn the rules?

 

Conventional wisdom says that they don't feed until the water is around 10C !

 

Mind you I was planting my garlic out yesterday, something I usually have to steel myself for, dress up in woolies and expect the cold soil to freeze my fingertips.

 

But I was soon down to my T-shirt, the soil felt warm and with plenty of lob worms at the surface (I collected a few for a trip to fish the Itchen in a couple of weeks)

 

Funny old times we are in.

[Stoaty]

I couldn't tell what they were Matt. I must admit it did feel very warm and spring like on Saturday. I kept my eye open for more on Sunday but there was a slight ripple on the water and it was much cooler and I didn't see anything.

 

At the same time we saw the Mullet a cormorant was having a feast of spratts over the angling side of the dock.

[maidstonemike]

The overall temperature in the Southern North Sea is 9C at the moment, the lowest it's been this winter. I think that's about 3C above average for Feb.

[Matt Baldwin]

roll on the 2007 mullet season

[Norm B]

roll on the 2007 mullet season

It appears that it's here already, get fishing.

[Andrew Boyd]

While global warming brings it own problems an extended Mullet season is not one of them !

[maidstonemike]

I'm looking forward to red snapper and striped bass.