Hi all, has anyone had any success catching mullet with fly patterns other than bread, shrimp or maggots? or is it a case of don't fix was isn't broken?

Regards

Jay

Loads and loads of stuff on here and UKSWFF about this.

I went through recently and pulled the following that people have had success with

Red tag
Black spider
Aps bloodoworm
Arno's milky dream
Diawl bach
White Klinkhammer

I've thrown most of these at them though without much success. The only one I've ever caught took a DNA clouser

What is it about bread that attracts them? Is it colour, smell, or a combination of things?

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They'll eat anything. Noodles used to work well off Poole Quay and you can condition them to take sweetcorn which doesnt attract the shitehawks like bread does.

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So t hey would go for a piece of white foam cut to look like a chunk of bread then?

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Is there a bread chunk pattern

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It's a funny old thing with the bread, I've found mullet to be quite selective sometimes I completely blank other days not. Thankyou for the list of other flies, I had heard that the Diawl bach has had some success but haven't heard of the others being used, something to try! Some of the areas I fish (the creeks) are lined with oak trees and am wondering if I should try fly patterns based on insects I might find in the surrounding area? surely they must have taken allsorts that have dropped from the oaks!

Diawl bach is a very effective fly for Thick Lipped Mullet and Golden Greys, but it has to be the correct pattern fished under the correct conditions to achieve repeated success.
I have discovered a number of flies, some traditional and others the result of sitting at the vice with a bobbin in one hand and a glass of chardonnay in the other, which catch mullet on a regular basis. Half the fun is discovering which patterns work and it would not be fair to deprive anyone of that fun.
Perseverance and time spent on the water is as important as any fly pattern.

Great advice thankyou, I'm off to rattle a few oak trees at the weekend!

That's fine unless you live a minimum of 3 hours drive from the sea - fishable sea.

One thing I have found is the UV natural materials are important in the make-up. Peacock herl is one of these materials, as is Jungle cock and jay wing blue, also the bright wing patches from mallard or teal. There are a host of natural, UV emitters and these are the materials in the recipe for success.
RED Tag, Diawl Bach (more or less the same if you break it down to common denominator, just slightly different shape, but essentially the same - peacock body with red in it at the tail) Black and PEACOCK spider....see a common theme here?

I wouldn't mind betting a peacock body with starling hackle would work really well.

Thanks all for your thoughts and advice, some great ideas to mull over there!