Looking for other fisherman & groups here locally Pensacola & Gulf Shores to Destin?
Buddy there are a few of us here in the Pan Handle. Some of us are pure fresh water fishermen and others are salt water fishermen. Keep posting there will be others coming along.
HotRodPerdido72 wrote:
Looking for other fisherman & groups here locally Pensacola & Gulf Shores to Destin?
Howdy I’m New to the forum but a lifetime fishing salt and freshwater around northwest Florida and coastal Alabama. Mostly fishing from boats except when hunting pompano and mullet from the beach. Very fine fare both those two. Worth all the walking and wading involved. Last few decades public beach access has became very limited due to condos and beach houses. Truth be known I’m a little too old to be waist deep throwing 11 ft cast net anyway. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve been buying my mullet for fishfrys for a while now 🤫😂
BA catching them on a pole is a lot more fun than using a casting net. I use a 10' foot catfish pole and small reel. Some use fly rods. Others use rod and reel. Anyway you catch them they give you one hell of a fight. They have a couple of holes on Yellow River that they keep baited or you can bait up your own. You should try it some time.
I thought you could only catch Mullet in a net??
Here where I live in North Fl. we're able to do what we call snatching mullet. We use 20 lb. and above line and treble hooks to catch mullet. You may catch them any where in the body so you better hold on. It's fun fishing and great eating.
I’m in the NW Florida area (specifically in Navarre/Gulf Breeze). New to this area and really trying hard to maximize my time and efforts in the Santa Rosa Sound, East Bay and offshore as well!
Absolutely willing to share info, experiences and tips…unfortunately so far this spring NEED more tips than have!
[quote=Ritab70]I thought you could only catch Mullet in a net??[/quote
Well it sounds like you’ve been educated on catching with a net only. Mullet will bite a hook. I’ve found in brackish water I will get the best results. People will take a small piece of cotton and a little bit of flour biscuit dough and roll around in their fingers and make a ball and put it on a small hook to catch them. Another way is to snatch them and that fellow was spot on when he said watch out they put up a big fight. Best time for that I have found is when they school up in the fall during roe season. When I was a kid at NAS docks the mullet schools would come down along side the docks no fooling the schools would be a block long and 100 yards wide incredible. When you snatch you need to really put some power into that snatch then hold on. Not only are they fantastic to eat but they are plentiful.No matter where ever you go inside it’s gonna be mullet and by the way for those people that don’t live in this area don’t think other mullet taste anything like the mullet we have down here😋
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