Has anyone ever caught a large mullet while trolling a grub? I did it yesterday and it was most definately a first for me. 12-13" mullet caught on a saphire/silver swimming mullet with a red jig head.
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If you follow CA Richardson (from the show “Flats Class”) on Twitter, he posted a pic yesterday with a mullet of approx 5 lbs he caught on an artificial lure. Pretty weird.
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Had a good friend, and Kayak fishing legend, Jon Schein, catch a 3 lb or so mullet on a fly rod in Chokoloskee, Florida two years ago.
I took a picture of him holding it up by the leader for proof.
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Some of the mullet I’ve seem lately look like they would put up a nice battle on the fly.
I caught a finger mullet with a fly rod a few weeks ago. Snagged him with the fly on a back cast. I couldn’t do that again.
Seriously, I’ve never heard of anyone catching a mullet with a rod & reel. Beside the finger mullet, the only way I’ve ever caught them is with a cast net.
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When I was kid growing up in Bluffton, and old lady who lived a few houses down the river used to stuff a minnow trap full of old bread and hang it off her dock. She would then get out her cane pole and bait it up with dough balls on a bream hook. She would catch mullet like you wouldn’t believe!
oyster cracker
caught one on a red/white top dog topwater plug this summer. definately a first for me
strip…strip…FISH ON!
Thanks for the responses, I’m glad to know I’m not the only one to do it. Had I known how the afternoon was going to work out I would have chopped him up into cut bait. No fish on the troll but the reds were thick chasin’ bait in the small creeks.
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I saw a show on TV once where they were actually targeting big mullet on a fy rod in NC.
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