Mullet East Cork

Well done Gary, thats a fine mullet - I have made a few attempts to catch them but they drove me to distraction

I know how you feel frank. I feel the same about bass .

Well done Gary, thats a fine mullet - I have made a few attempts to catch them but they drove me to distraction

I know how you feel frank. I feel the same about Bass .

Although Bass aren't easy to catch they are deffo easier to catch compared to mullet.
Mullet are just so frustrating but equally bass can be too.
Two of the best and most rewarding species to fish for and catch in the sea as far as I am concerened

Hi lads,

While I wouldn’t dream of saying any of you’s are wrong in saying that the mullet are hard to catch, but I have to say I find them easy, as long as you know what your up against,
For 2 years before I caught my first mullet I had been reading and watching videos about them on how they behave when feeding

Then a mate of mine asked if I ever caught one and when I told him I hadn’t had a chance to fish for them yet, he took me to his mullet mark where I caught 7, I was netting my sixth mullet that took a sh*te fly when he caught his first and only fish of the day,

He “Dulittle” is more of a trout and salmon fisher so I think he expected the fish to grab the bait and run where as I knew that in the case of the mullet it was more “suck and blow” and if you don’t strike as soon as he/she sucks then you’ve blown it,

I read the mullets digestive system is different then most fish, it likes to eat decomposing flesh so when they suck your bait in they do a quick check for any hard bits and at the same time checking to see if it is edible, I have seen them doing this many times and by the time you say “suck” they will have already blown it back out,

I tried to explain what I had found out to Dulittle but I’m not a very good teacher and he’s not the most patient of students,

What it boils down to is.. If you can see whatever bait your using be it bread / fish or fly then you must strike as soon as you see it vanish this way you will hook up on most of your takes,
I have tried giving them more time and watched there reaction and found 9 out of 10 would result in a missed bite,
don’t get me wrong because when there in a feeding frenzy they will grab and run sometimes hooking themselves but most of my mullet have been caught by me being able to see them suck the fly in then bang the fun has started,

This is just what I have found while fishing for these mullet and I’m sure many others on here have different methods of outwitting these fish but I hope this will help anyone attempting to go after the mullet for the first time,

If anyone wants to know more about how to prepare an area to keep the mullet near enough so you can use this method then by all means PM me,

And for those of you that are already catching these fish by the dozen and havent learnt anything new from what I have wrote, then I’m sorry to have bored you.

Great advice here mann. Thanks for that. Targeting them again in the morning and i'll give your method a bash .