does anyone know what flies are best to catch mullet?on the stretch of tidal river by me mullet come in with the tide and back out on the ebb they hold around the habour in vast numbers.what would be the best tactics to catch these shy biting fish

depends how you want to target them. if you want to try immitate naturals you can try the weed flies, and occasionally spiders. if you want to go for the bread route as i do, then its hard to beat a rabbit bread fly, this being palmored white rabbit zonker. this has proven very succesful for me down here.

to target them i tend to stick about the lower parts of the esturies over the last hour of the ebb and the first two hours of the flood. during this time the mullet tend to move back up the esturies as the mud flats flood. find a pod of fish and break up some bread into small pieces about a cm across. make them into a loose ball and throw uptide of the fish. when the mullet are feeding hard u can get some agressive takes. nw cast your bread fly uptide of the fish and wait gor a response. i prefer to let the fly sink slightly as this usually results in more positive take. if it is calm and clear then you can see the takes, if not i add a greased piece of cloro backin between leader and fly line and watch this for takes. these can be anything from a gentle sip to a rod wrenching hit

this technique has resulted in about 1050 mullet in the past 3 years, best session was 11 up to 5+lbs..thers is a misconception that mullet are a difficult fish to catch but if you get them feeding, and this is more about identifying the period of the tide than anything else, they are quite catchable..

Echo that Neilb...If you want to go down the fly route try PTN's, Red Tag Soldier Palmer, Apps style Blood Worm, also try Gamarus imitations.

You could also look here for more info: Mullet Fly Fishing Forum :: Index

Good luck!! Be prepared to be driven to the verge of insanity!!

Cheers Dave

neilb could you put up a pic of ur rabbit bread fly...... and what size of hooks you would use mate as i would love to catch one of these fish.

wilkie

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Never been for mullet myself but my mate goes and has had plenty on Bread Fly and also a Curry Red shrimp (I think its a single salmon fly) he said there are plent of mullet off most north wales rock marks and in the harbors

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yip no problem

from the tone of a few of the posts i can see a few guys have been driven mad by them, if you stick with them and have a little patience they are very catchable..

oh and p.s the bread fly isnt my design, just one i got off the net a while back

a bread fly pattern my pal uses....

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Hi guys. I'm sure this has been questioned before, but is casting to mullet that have been fed on bread what fly fishing is all about? I'm not saying i wouldn't try it. I probably will. To date the closest i have got to catching a mullet is a hook up. I lost the fish after 30 seconds.

So what are your thoughts? I know that if trout were fed i would have no interest in flyfishing for them, so why would it be any different with mullet?

I see mullet all the time on the west of Ireland, but have only dedicated an hour or two in persuit of them...this season i will try to do better..

Cheers
JJ

maggot type flies for me, caught lots of mullet on these flies, white or green body works also if there taken of the top I will add a green hackle by the eye of the hook, just like a klinkhamer