Mullet Fishing 2025: Fishing Days

Latest:  20/07/25:  1/05 - despite a lot of activity, a capture was looking increasingly beyond my reach, and then... That should have been it, apart from the trees overhead, and the bladderwrack out front, so it all turned into the usual saga, not least because I managed to get the line at the rod tip caught in an unwieldy mess of oak branches. I was probably only saved by the diminuitive size of the fish, but no complaints here.

17/07/25:  2/15 - yet another new venue for me this year, and it's always enjoyable to succeed somewhere different. An extremely tight swim, and even the usually simple act of casting wasn't the easiest challenge I've faced while mullet fishing. The fish were spooked, and were gradually moving further out of range, so the chance of a hookup was diminishing by the minute. Finally got into it with strong and determined fish... aren't they all?... and it was very fortunate that Phil was on hand with the net.

15/07/25:  2/11 - a new location, and there were encouragingly a few fish in evidence upon arrival. I quickly made a note of all the apparent snags and other harbingers of disaster, and started groundbaiting, sparingly this time. A couple on holiday decided to sit behind me to eat their pasties, and I carefully and politely explained to them the peril that they had unwittingly placed themselves in. Fortunately, when a bite arrived, I didn't launch the weighted waggler into someone's eye socket, and we were 'game on'. The previously identified hazards were carefully avoided, and the much-desired outcome was achieved.

14/07/25:  1/00 - fast bites and a small fish fairly early in the session, and then continued by missing a ridiculous number of fast takes until 'AO'.

13/07/25:  1/06, 2/00 - a large presence of very greedy small sub-1lb fish suggested that a move might be merited, but I decided to stick at it, and was rewarded with a couple of slightly larger fish landed, one of which brought a strong 'weed game' to the proceedings.

12/07/25:  3/11, 3/08 - a location visited only once previously, with no fish captured on that occasion, so I was keen to improve upon that. On arrival, I could see a fish cruising the shoreline amongst the bladderwrack, so I groundbaited an 'intercept point'. A missed bite, and next time, a very grumpy fish on the end, which put up a great fight - the largest of the season, as it came to pass, for a variety of reasons.

I chose to deliberately ignore the plethora of very small fish which were greedily consuming all of the free bread, and eventually, another hookup. This one fought with every ounce of its strength, and I was very relieved to see it in the net, after more than a few nasty weedy moments. This was a very lean fish, but with a very large tail, hence the impression of a hooked missile that I had experienced.

02/07/25:  2/12 - after a lot of actual impediments coupled with a significant amount of procrastination, this was a very good day. The same weight as my first ever mullet back in 1973, give or take a few years, at Lostwithiel.