Marina Fishing For Mullet - Catching mullet With Bread - The Fish Locker
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Date: 2022-05-03
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Nomad
This was awesome and very apt, as I was fishing last weekend for mullet at a creek in Australia. I wish that I had seen this video first because everything you said made sense and while I made my bread bait, i rolled the whole piece then attached it to the hook. It stayed in shape and it was not a plain white bread, in fact, it came back from each cast in tact. I did not make the bread crumble, so it would have been too firm and nothing coming off the bait to entice the fish. I know what you mean about them being a frustrating fish to catch but get some amusement out of watch others try heh. The creek where I fished for them is zero to 1. 5 metres, low to high, where we camp and it's hard to bear when you see them jumping and cast right into them and still not catch them. Poddys (young mullet) are caught by trapping and are prized live bait and are easier caught than the adults. Your info and experience is highly appreciated John and I hope one day to give a story on catching one of the damned things lol. Eerie though that you made a video about catching mullet about the same day almost as when I was trying to catch one. It probably should have been me kicking the side of the boat and eating yogurt instead of your little bloke, heh. Tight lines John
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This was awesome and very apt, as I was fishing last weekend for mullet at a creek in Australia. I wish that I had seen this video first because everything you said made sense and while I made my bread bait, i rolled the whole piece then attached it to the hook. It stayed in shape and it was not a plain white bread, in fact, it came back from each cast in tact. I did not make the bread crumble, so it would have been too firm and nothing coming off the bait to entice the fish. I know what you mean about them being a frustrating fish to catch but get some amusement out of watch others try heh. The creek where I fished for them is zero to 1. 5 metres, low to high, where we camp and it's hard to bear when you see them jumping and cast right into them and still not catch them. Poddys (young mullet) are caught by trapping and are prized live bait and are easier caught than the adults. Your info and experience is highly appreciated John and I hope one day to give a story on catching one of the damned things lol. Eerie though that you made a video about catching mullet about the same day almost as when I was trying to catch one. It probably should have been me kicking the side of the boat and eating yogurt instead of your little bloke, heh. Tight lines John
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Gerald
I used to do the same as you, fishing off the back of my sloop, 'Knipa', in a marina. I used to seed bread bits every evening at the same time for a few days without fishing. As they got used to it they used to come for their grub. I had problems with single hooks until I started using tiny trebles equivalent in size to a single hook of 14 or 16. I used to completely bury the hook in a hard paste of bread and when they took the bait I did not strike but let them take it down. Mullet is one of my favourite eating fish. I poach it and it is delicious hot, but the following day cold with a salad it is superb because of the jelly that forms around it. Totally succulent and tasty. Your comments about the tides did not apply because this was in the Med where the tides under normal circumstances are in the region of 20 cm. where I was at Gruissan, near Narbonne.
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I used to do the same as you, fishing off the back of my sloop, 'Knipa', in a marina. I used to seed bread bits every evening at the same time for a few days without fishing. As they got used to it they used to come for their grub. I had problems with single hooks until I started using tiny trebles equivalent in size to a single hook of 14 or 16. I used to completely bury the hook in a hard paste of bread and when they took the bait I did not strike but let them take it down. Mullet is one of my favourite eating fish. I poach it and it is delicious hot, but the following day cold with a salad it is superb because of the jelly that forms around it. Totally succulent and tasty. Your comments about the tides did not apply because this was in the Med where the tides under normal circumstances are in the region of 20 cm. where I was at Gruissan, near Narbonne.
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Robbie
in my previous comment i forgot to ask if its normal for the whole shoal of mullet you, ve got on the feed to then chase the fish i hooked?
i thought maybe the rest of the fish may have thought te hooked one was holding a large piece of bread but im not sure cuz they are usually so easy to
spook but about a dozen huge mullet followed my fish until i got it out the water plus as i was fighting the fish about 5 people came to watch and nothing
seemed to make the spooked at all, we were all stood no mire than 7ft from the water in the marina and their was no cover for them except hugging the marina
wall, anyway can anyone shed any light on this behaviour i, d apprieciate it, its nothing ive ever seen in the uk the mullet usually dart off if they even just see a silouette
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in my previous comment i forgot to ask if its normal for the whole shoal of mullet you, ve got on the feed to then chase the fish i hooked?
i thought maybe the rest of the fish may have thought te hooked one was holding a large piece of bread but im not sure cuz they are usually so easy to
spook but about a dozen huge mullet followed my fish until i got it out the water plus as i was fighting the fish about 5 people came to watch and nothing
seemed to make the spooked at all, we were all stood no mire than 7ft from the water in the marina and their was no cover for them except hugging the marina
wall, anyway can anyone shed any light on this behaviour i, d apprieciate it, its nothing ive ever seen in the uk the mullet usually dart off if they even just see a silouette
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Damian
Brilliant video John it made me laugh at the beginning when your little lad was behind you filling his belly I used to do exactly the same thing with my lad when he was about the same age, here are son do you want one of these, anything for a quiet life --
Loved the underwater bit it's always fascinating to what's going on below the surface, also when you hooked that fish and you had a spectator that happened to me many moons ago in Ibiza I hooked a nice mullet of about 3. 5lb but buy the time I landed it I had about 50 people behind me giving me a round of applause, I didn't even know they were I nearly jumped out my skin when I turned around! Lol ----
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Brilliant video John it made me laugh at the beginning when your little lad was behind you filling his belly I used to do exactly the same thing with my lad when he was about the same age, here are son do you want one of these, anything for a quiet life --
Loved the underwater bit it's always fascinating to what's going on below the surface, also when you hooked that fish and you had a spectator that happened to me many moons ago in Ibiza I hooked a nice mullet of about 3. 5lb but buy the time I landed it I had about 50 people behind me giving me a round of applause, I didn't even know they were I nearly jumped out my skin when I turned around! Lol ----
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Shane
so i have two questions: 1st- so the hook is sitting under the bobber i think you said about seven feet. is that because it is seven feet to the floor of the harbor or does seven feet suspend the hook somewhere in the middle of the water? i guess what in asking is should the bait be touching the sea floor?
2nd question: when the mullet takes the bait do you need to set the hook yourself or from your experience will the mullet hook itself once it has inhaled the bait? is it similar to smelt fishing where you yank the hook to set it or more like ray fishing where they will hook themselves>?
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so i have two questions: 1st- so the hook is sitting under the bobber i think you said about seven feet. is that because it is seven feet to the floor of the harbor or does seven feet suspend the hook somewhere in the middle of the water? i guess what in asking is should the bait be touching the sea floor?
2nd question: when the mullet takes the bait do you need to set the hook yourself or from your experience will the mullet hook itself once it has inhaled the bait? is it similar to smelt fishing where you yank the hook to set it or more like ray fishing where they will hook themselves>?
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Gerald
I was in the Basque country a few years ago, on the coast west of Santander and Bilbao and after we had booked into an hotel we walked down to the harbour and the water was alive with enormous shoals of grey mullet. I asked one of the locals if people fished for them and he said that they were very bad to eat and would make you ill. When we came down later that night I realized why he had said that when I saw an enormous arch set in the harbour wall which was a foul drain, and the water absolutely heaving with mullet feeding.
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I was in the Basque country a few years ago, on the coast west of Santander and Bilbao and after we had booked into an hotel we walked down to the harbour and the water was alive with enormous shoals of grey mullet. I asked one of the locals if people fished for them and he said that they were very bad to eat and would make you ill. When we came down later that night I realized why he had said that when I saw an enormous arch set in the harbour wall which was a foul drain, and the water absolutely heaving with mullet feeding.
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andy
Interesting what you said about the possibility of blanking and not to get disheartened by it. We need the blank days in order to appreciate the good days. Just imagine that you could guarantee to catch fish every time you put a bait in the water - how long would you continue to fish? What would be the point?
It's a bit like playing golf, some days it's good and other days not so good. Would you bother to play if you could guarantee a hole in one every time you hit the ball? Wouldn't it make the whole thing pointless?
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Interesting what you said about the possibility of blanking and not to get disheartened by it. We need the blank days in order to appreciate the good days. Just imagine that you could guarantee to catch fish every time you put a bait in the water - how long would you continue to fish? What would be the point?
It's a bit like playing golf, some days it's good and other days not so good. Would you bother to play if you could guarantee a hole in one every time you hit the ball? Wouldn't it make the whole thing pointless?
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jonners69
It took us YEARS to catch one from our pontoon just up river from where you are there! I swear they were laughing at us! Eventually, we filled onion sacks with bread which we tied onto the pontoon and replenished daily. The tide filled the water with bread particles which the fish got used to and, after a few days, began feeding on. After 3 or 4 days we came down and caught them on bread flake with light coarse tackle. It was a momentous occasion in mine and my dad's fishing career!
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It took us YEARS to catch one from our pontoon just up river from where you are there! I swear they were laughing at us! Eventually, we filled onion sacks with bread which we tied onto the pontoon and replenished daily. The tide filled the water with bread particles which the fish got used to and, after a few days, began feeding on. After 3 or 4 days we came down and caught them on bread flake with light coarse tackle. It was a momentous occasion in mine and my dad's fishing career!
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Robbie
in my 35 years of fishing ive only ever hooked and landed 1 mullet i was on holiday in france and in the in st malo marina they were feeding so i had a go
with 3 ft of 6lb line under a tiny bob float and i must have had 9 takes then finaly one hooked itself as it turned in the water hooked it in the lip
exllent fight hade to let in run a few time but landed about 4lb thin lip mullet, i was well chuffed, caught pictured n released
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in my 35 years of fishing ive only ever hooked and landed 1 mullet i was on holiday in france and in the in st malo marina they were feeding so i had a go
with 3 ft of 6lb line under a tiny bob float and i must have had 9 takes then finaly one hooked itself as it turned in the water hooked it in the lip
exllent fight hade to let in run a few time but landed about 4lb thin lip mullet, i was well chuffed, caught pictured n released
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cuan
Hi fish locker. In the past I've used size 14 treble for mullet. It can make for more hook ups but because its a very small hook it does very little damage. A larger treble would put more holes in the fish (it wouldn't work anyway with mullet, probably spook them) but the wee ones are great for keeping the bread on and hooking. Great vids thanks a million.
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Hi fish locker. In the past I've used size 14 treble for mullet. It can make for more hook ups but because its a very small hook it does very little damage. A larger treble would put more holes in the fish (it wouldn't work anyway with mullet, probably spook them) but the wee ones are great for keeping the bread on and hooking. Great vids thanks a million.
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