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![[*]](./images/xpsilver/default_icon.gif) posted on 8/10/03 at 02:41 PM |
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e.t. phone home
Fished Cardiff on friday saw a school of fish I thought they were yellow fin so I threw a #6 ghost shrimp pattern at them. I start stripping line
and then wham. The next thing I know the reel is screaming off line. What the hell this is no croaker run. Suddenly the fish catches some air and
reveals himself MULLET!!! A couple more solid runs and then he gets tired. I bring him in thinking, "Lets see where I foul hooked the poor
fish". To my surprise he ate the fly. In case you never seen a mullet close up. They look like E.T. with swim fins. I released him and he swam the
wrong way. I Spun him around attached some Mapquest for Catalina and he was gone.
Tried for another half hour with no other takers.
Has anyone else caught mullet on the fly? I never consider them as a target fish but after those blistering runs I'd give it another try.
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| posted on 8/11/03 at 08:23 AM |
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I think Mu and Lee got into some mullet at the power station two seasons ago.
It is rare, but they will hit a fly.
Sounds like a great fish to catch.
Mike B.
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| posted on 8/12/03 at 11:00 AM |
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What kind of Mullet?
hi anonymous,
could you look up ( maybe on http://www.fishbase.org/ )
the kind of mullet you caught, and let us know
what kind it was?
also (sorry for picking nits), could you include a
name in your posts? I really don't care if it's your
real name or not, but it seems that a lot of folks are
posting anonymously, and also not putting a
name inside their posts. It makes the place seem a
little more friendly if everybody knows which
"anonymous" is doing the posting....
TIA,
tim
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| posted on 8/12/03 at 12:15 PM |
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Hi Tim, thanks for directing me to that cool website. Luckily I took a photo so it was easy to identify. It was a blue mullet. I'd send in a
picture but I don't know how to do an attachment here.
see ya in the surf, hiptothat.
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| posted on 8/13/03 at 08:27 PM |
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ok, I figured it out
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| posted on 8/13/03 at 10:40 PM |
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Hey Hiptothat
Can you post a picture of the pattern you caught the mullet on. I have yet to catch a mullet. A few years back I used to see schools of mullet in the
Ventura harbor area. Hopefully it is a common hang out for these mullet.
I remember hearing of some guy succesfully catching mullet on a pattern that was just a clump of green fluff. If I remember correctly the mullet he
was chasing were feeding on algae.
S.Lee
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hiptothat
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| posted on 8/14/03 at 07:47 PM |
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According to fishbase.org the Bluetail mullet will consume crustaceans. Ghost shrimp pattern coutesy of San Diego fly shop Solana Beach.
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| posted on 8/19/03 at 08:15 AM |
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Mullet
So those mullet are still hanging at Cardiff. Where? George's or pushing up the creek mouth? More mullet info:http://www.captmel.com/mullet_on_the_fly.htm, http://www.hartflyfishing.demon.co.uk/mullet_fishing.html
There are others. Check out recipe for the BREAD fly in the second article....
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| posted on 8/24/03 at 08:17 PM |
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Seems like ages ago since I caught that fish but it was at the river mouth.
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| posted on 8/24/03 at 09:05 PM |
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I saw a school of mullet at the Oxnard power plant. I ended up hooking into one and landed the fish. It was foul hooled but sure did give a good
fight. If only these fish took the fly readily.
S.Lee
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