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2007 Mullet Season

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Leon Roskilly Member

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What do you think, uncooperative early season bass or mullet?

 

 

Mullet

 

You'll find mullet everywhere, and feeding at all depths.

 

When feeding on 'natural' food (mostly algaes and micro-organisms scrapped from rocks and mud, but opportunistically on sea-weed maggots, fish fry etc), they are difficult to tempt to anything you can put on a hook.

 

In harbours estuaries etc, where scraps of different foods are readily available, they are much more inclined to take bread and sometimes worm or mackerel strip etc.

 

Again it depends upon the species with bread being the best bait for thick-lips and a piece of harbour rag or ragworm presented around 4" behind a small mepps type spinner with the treble removed and replaced by a size 8 hook to a short piece of mono (although thin-lips will take bread and occasionally thick-lips will take rag from behind a spinner).

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Cheers. When it comes to mullet and bass I do know my 'arse from my elbow' so to speak having caught and observed both species. I am a bit of a lure fanatic and rarely get round to fishing with bait so the mullet generally remain safe, although I did go through a phase of catching thin lips.

 

On another similar note had another frustrating session today, spent a good hour fruitlessly casting into a truly massive shoal of sand eels being nailed from all directions and not inspiring a nibble, despite using lures that work well in the past for bass and mackeral. I could even feel my plug bouncing off fish! Thought I was sure they were sand eels as the diving birds were coming up with gobs full of small slim looking creatures but maybe they were just baby mullet... :wallbash:

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The 2007 season has started down devon, while waiting to get afloat, some guy caught two in as many minutes from paignton harbour, i believe they called them golden greys?

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Yet to catch one in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Had quite a few in in the Med and in the Canaries. Best was about 6.5 lbs at mark X in Malta.God it did hang on. Used a float rod and 4lb line.

 

As some of you may know got a static van in Drummore(Gods country) this is the view from my caravan park

 

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Have targeted the swines a few times but to no avail :headhurt: Tried bread,sweetcorn and a Snatcher weed fly to no effect. They are not big fish but would love to hook one :thumbs:

 

Will try again this year and report back any results

 

As much as I like mullet fishing this is what pulls my string in Luce Bay

 

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Off to the fridge for a cool one

 

ps,I am the ugly one holding the tope :rolleyes:

 

 

Fishing digs on the Mull of Galloway - recommend

HERE

 

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Me when I had hair

 

 

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

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God it did hang on.
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The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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Guys

 

Had my first Mullet of the year today, and what a Mullet . . a PB 7lbs 2oz

 

 

Caught from the Medway almost at the top the the tide this afternoon. I'm still grinning several hours later.

Andrew Boyd

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Guys

 

Had my first Mullet of the year today, and what a Mullet . . a PB 7lbs 2oz

Caught from the Medway almost at the top the the tide this afternoon. I'm still grinning several hours later.

 

Photo's we need photo's, was it Tony U,s bait that did it?

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Well done Andrew If I had not been in a rush I would have stayed lonmger and seen the fish, you had just had a good bite just before I left, I wonder if it was from the same fish?

 

Tony

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