Striped Mullet

[Ken Jones]

A friend sent me a note that he's been seeing a lot of mullet jumping in the lagoon near Carlsbad. Wondered about catching them. Here's some info on the hard to catch fish.

https://www.pierfishing.com/striped-mullet/

 

[Mahigeer]

Lots of mullet are caught in Türkiye by anglers using the shown rig called “cypress rig"!!!

A piece of crispy bread is turned inside out. The snelled hooks are wrapped around the soft section.

The hooks are pushed in the bread not at the sharp (barb), but the stem. Thus, the curve and the barb is standing up.

No matter what size the fish is, as it nibbles on the bread, one of the hooks may snag the fish pulling the float down.

 

[Gypsyboy]

A friend sent me a note that he's been seeing a lot of mullet jumping in the lagoon near Carlsbad. Wondered about catching them. Here's some info on the hard to catch fish.

https://www.pierfishing.com/striped-mullet/

Thank You!

 

[Gypsyboy]

Lots of mullet are caught in Türkiye by anglers using the shown rig called “cypress rig"!!!

A piece of crispy bread in turned inside out. The snelled hooks are wrapped around the soft section.

The hooks are pushed in the bread not at the sharp (burb), but the stem. Thus, the curve and the barb is standing up.

No matter what size the fish is, as it nibbles on the bread, one of the hooks may snag the fish pulling the float down.

Thanks!

 

[Bendopolo]

While they look exactly the same, the world over, Mullet act very different geographically. In Louisiana you can catch them at will on fish skin, right outside the Public Fish Cleaning Tables in Venice. In Florida, they didn’t take a second look. I’ve had California Mullet slash at Roostertail Spinners while surf fishing for Barred Perch and Halibut, but never hooked any. Snagging seem to be the only way. A little snagging secret is to file down the barbs on your hooks so the point passes thru the thick scales. Hook a big one on 10 pound test and you have quite a battle. They are probably gone now but in the ‘80s I snagged an 18 pound “Mullet” by the Power Plant in South San Diego Bay. I took it to the Fish Market in Oceanside and found out it was a a Milkfish. Mullet don’t get that big.