Occasionally I will catch a mullet in my cast net, talking big ones not finger mullet, but never consistently. We use pogies most of the time but there are times I would like to have a few big mullet for kings to use under a kite
Is it just a matter of throwing the net in the shallows when you see them but that seems to be more a matter of chance than a sure fire method or is there better areas to catch them
Sea Pro 210cc
Yamaha 200 4 Stroke
Dodge 1500 4x4 HEMI
Keep trying with the cast net took me a year before I was able to consistently catch bait. What size net are you using and whats the average depth your throwing in? You may want to try a sabiki rig but those can get expensive unless you have a sabiki rod which cost a good bit unless you make make your own sabiki rod.
Throwing a big mesh 10’ net that I use for pogies, heavy enough to get them in deep water
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Yamaha 200 4 Stroke
Dodge 1500 4x4 HEMI
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Originally posted by tpriceThrowing a big mesh 10’ net that I use for pogies, heavy enough to get them in deep water
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Yamaha 200 4 Stroke
Dodge 1500 4x4 HEMI
just throw right on the edge of some docks… it works like a charm most of the time
also around drop offs from the shallows.
~15 ft Mitzi~
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Originally posted by stalkingtheflatsjust throw right on the edge of some docks… it works like a charm most of the time
also around drop offs from the shallows.~15 ft Mitzi~
Thanks, what I was asking
Sea Pro 210cc
Yamaha 200 4 Stroke
Dodge 1500 4x4 HEMI
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Originally posted by StuckonLandKeep trying with the cast net took me a year before I was able to consistently catch bait. What size net are you using and whats the average depth your throwing in? You may want to try a sabiki rig but those can get expensive unless you have a sabiki rod which cost a good bit unless you make make your own sabiki rod.
Thanks, have no problem catching pogies or throwing net. Just not sure about the mullet and where to catch them consistently
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Yamaha 200 4 Stroke
Dodge 1500 4x4 HEMI
Got a spot that had some large ones last year at the end of winter/begining of summer shoot me a PM
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
-Anonymous
What is a ‘Sabiki Rod’?
Pardon my ignorance…just haven’t seen one. I have a couple of sabiki rigs that work great, but they are a pain to cast on a 7’ rod. I’ve used them to catch croaker and sand trout and pinfish around bridge and dock pilings on the Cooper and would like to use it more. Croaker are the best live bait for big trout and they are hard to get in the cast net.
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
it’s a rod into which the rigs is brought into so just the sinker is exposed - so the little hooks are hidden inside the rod it’s self when not in use.
I did not know that a mullet would eat a sabiki - we use to catch them in FL on Wonder Bread packed into a little ball. I would not use this methiod it’s not very productive.
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150 V-max
Thanks for the info Flat Bottom. As far as catching mullet on a sabiki rig, I never have either. We used to catch mullet in Back Bay in Biloxi on cane poles with bread balls while bream fishing. I’ve had good luck in the creeks around pilings with caching croaker, sand trout, and pinfish on the sabiki, but no mullet since I’ve been in Charleston. We actually used to fish for huge mud minnows with tiny cane poles and sabiki sized hooks under the docks in Ocean Springs when we were kids…mostly for fun, but they caught some huge trout for us.
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
Ok, this is hearsay, dont no exactly how but the guys in the “Redneck Rivera” area set up in the backwaters with a Generator and air compressor and shoot the air thru PVC to the bottom and then either hook in line them or cast net them.
That was the jist of it and I think I made a note on it and will try to dig it out.
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but the guys in the "Redneck Rivera" area set up in the backwaters
I’ll tell yall how the Crackers do it 
My Daddy taught me this, about 1955. He used to sell mullet in Thunderbolt for a nickel a pound.
This works best with 2 boats, but if you’re tough and careful, 1 is enough. Get 2 poles about 8’ long, bamboo or PVC, mount 1 upright in the bow and 1 upright in the stern, both on the center line. Stretch and tie a white bed sheet between the poles. Hang a Coleman lantern on each end to light up the sheet, or just shine a spotlight on it. Move the boat slowly through the creeks at night on either side of low tide. The mullet will jump at the light, hit the sheet and fall in the boat. I highly recommend a football helmet and a nut cup for this sport:smiley: When you get into the fish, you are going to take a beating from those blunt heads. Carefully monitor the fish level in the boat and turn off the light when things get out of hand, it’s easy to catch enough to sink it, pretty quick too.
The best way to do this is with 2 boats, and tow the boat with the sheet and lights behind the boat you are in. Again, carefully monitor the amount of fish, or you will sink your jon boat in a hurry!
This will get all the bait you ever wanted:smiley:
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
That was funny Larry…I love it and absolutely believe it. When my Dad used to take me gigging on Deer Island in 1957 we had to tie down the lantern to the bow of the skiff…no batteries or spotlights back then…to keep it from getting knocked down by the jumping mullet. The closer we got to the Island (coming from Ocean Springs) the more mullet jumped in the boat…and I am talking about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 lb. mullet. Those bad boys hurt when they hit you.
True Story (approx. 20 years ago): Years later, after we were on Folly Beach for a while, I figured it out and even made a bet with 2 of my friends that I could catch so many fish that they could not clean them fast enough to keep up with me. Unfortunately for them, they did not ask me how and they took the bet. I took them down to then end of Folly by the Park and just walked along with the Coleman pointed towards the ocean. They asked me what I was doing and I told them that I was ‘hunting’. They laughed but not for long. When the school of about 400+ large mullet had their eyes out of the water looking at the lantern in about 2’ of water, I set the lantern down on the beach and I moved up to them with my 12’ mullet net and threw once. After losing about 100 fish dragging the net onto the beach they were left to clean about 200 good sized mullet. That was the first throw. On the second throw…the school was still there…I pulled in another 100 or so but felt sorry for them so I threw back all but the largest. I sat on a piece of driftwood and watched my friends fill a 48 quart Igloo with nothing but fillets. The bet specified that they also had to carry the cooler back to my car, but I did give them all the fillets they wanted to take home. They are there almost all summer every year. Back then, it was either mullet or peanut butter and jelly…we chose mullet. Yummmm…
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC