Here in the south the maggot fly works well on shorelines where the pupa wash out of the bladder wrack weed on a flooding tide.Purbeck coast between Swanage & Weymouth in Dorset is good for this.In the estuary and up rivers Stour & Avon at Christchurch have caught them on a small Alexandra which is a traditional sea trout pattern but smaller size.Mullet fight like hell so well worth the effort.Maggot fly set up I have used droppers weather permitting.With the alexandra cast to a pod of fish and a mix of dibbling and let it sink slowly and induced lift sometimes brings the desired result.

The rabbit zonker based bread pattern sounds like a winner to me.Will have to give it a go.Mullet sure know what bread is around Christchurch.Thanks for the tip.

Best JP

just a few points about the zonker fly as apposed to spun deer hair r foam. when bread is inwater it is a very sof consistancy, almost fluffy, ive found spun deer hair or foams to be too hard, often resultig in fish coming up quiet aggresively only to nose it and move off.if ido hav to fish a surface fly i add a little piece of booby tubing at the head like a shipmans buzzer or similar..i like to call it an emerging bread fly