Fish ID

Need help to identify fish, no pictures i am afraid! Just a visual description
while fishing yesterday evening at high tide in waste deep water i spotted a fish that appeared to be sitting on top of the weed, i could see his back breached out of the water. anyway i casted past him and retrieved my lure which actually hit him before he sunk down and disappered, i also seen some swirls in water in same area. as i aam new to fishing i am really hoping that these are bass i am seeing and not mullet? HELP!

Need help to identify fish, no pictures i am afraid! Just a visual description
while fishing yesterday evening at high tide in waste deep water i spotted a fish that appeared to be sitting on top of the weed, i could see his back breached out of the water. anyway i casted past him and retrieved my lure which actually hit him before he sunk down and disappered, i also seen some swirls in water in same area. as i aam new to fishing i am really hoping that these are Bass i am seeing and not mullet? HELP!

Hard to say to be honest.
Mullet often wander around with a tip of a fin swirling out of the water with an occasional flash of their belly as they flip sideways.. god knows why.

length? colour? shape? features?
take a pic next time

Length - all I could see was about 8inches out if the water
Colour - very dark, light was poor so hard to tell what colour
That's all the info really. Could this have been a bass, is it 'normal' behaviour?

most likely mullet. But would suspect there would be bass deeper down if there was a current present

Mullet act like that swirling on the top of the water some will follow a lure but most just ignore them


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most likely mullet. But would suspect there would be Bass deeper down if there was a current present

No current present.... I nearly stood on 1 while wading through the weed