Mullet watch 2005

[Casey]

This size.

 

BTW, its Pete from http://www.castandcatch.com/ the fish was caught in the River Mersey the other day, his first mullet and well deserved after targeting them for some time.

 

[WeymouthSean]

Just a small one for me again today. About 2/1/2lb! Lots of large fish about just couldn't get them to take my bait.

[BREAMAGAIN]

Sean , don't you go to work anymore , seem to always have your Mullet rod in hand !

[Andrew Boyd]

Um, Got things wrong last Sunday. Thought I would fish the Medway tide "down" in the morning but did not realise how high the tide had been and therefore the speed of the flow. It was like watching a spate river at full pelt! Turned round and managed a few hours Tenching instead !

 

Young chap fishing the "Civic" wall had had a 6lb Bass in the night.

 

I need to find a few more Medway Mullet haunts, I don't expect people to advertise to everyone but if anyone has some advice please feel free to PM me and I will keep any hard learned information to my self. Perhaps a joint trip out in September, I can provide transport.

[BREAMAGAIN]

Find your own , freeloader !

[Andrew Boyd]

Breamagain . . you can comment when you can "walk the talk" !

[Jim Gibbinson]

Andrew, the known Medway spots around Gillinham, Chatham and Rochester are among the most consistent. They are best avoided during school holidays and weekends, though. I wouldn't recommend too much time be spent exploring much upriver of, say, the M2 bridge - lots of mullet in evidence at times (right up as far as Aylesford and beyond), but I'm convinced that most are thinlips. Having exhausted the aforementioned options, it's then down to exploration and identifying likely-looking locations. Most of us hardcore Medway mulleters are still doing just that - we've yet to find mullet heaven, though! Wherever we've tried, it remains hard work.

[Leon Roskilly]

There are lots of spots in the Medway that just shriek mullet, but unfortunately there is no access to them from the land.

 

A keen Medway mullet fanatic with just a small boat could open up a whole now load of hotspots between (say) Gillingham and Rochester!

 

What I fear is the development of the riverside between Chatham and Rochester.

 

This usually means a tidy up of the actual bank, ie removing all useful fish holding features and sterilising/removing the transitional ecology that supports much of the river life, bringing species up to these reaches to feed.

 

Tight Lines - leon

 

(ps had a pugnacious 2lb 12oz fish at near low water from the Civic Centre yesterday whilst fishing with Matt, as the last of the depth retreated from the wall by the steps. Missed a cracking bite from off the old seaweed covered wall just before low tide)

 

[ 13. August 2005, 07:53 AM: Message edited by: Leon Roskilly ]

[Jim Gibbinson]

Leon, if the drunks, hookers, druggies and scrotes are removed, too, I'll live with the loss of features!

[Matt Baldwin]

I might have some one willing to take a few Medway Mulleters out, only a might but im working on it.

 

matt