mullet fishing

Hi all new to the forum I am looking for some venues to fish for mullet I am from Liverpool but don't mind travelling I have read about rhyl harbor is this good for mullet can you fish many places on it any help much appreciated thanks in advance

Hi there and welcome,
Hopefully you are making plans for the future, Wales is under a stricter lockdown than England and so unfortunately you can't travel here to fish at the moment.

If you put mullet in the search box some old discussions will come up though.

yes for the future do you know how the rhyl harbor has been fishing of late or before lockdown and if the mullet are still there and best tactics for them

fozzer12 wrote:

yes for the future do you know how the rhyl harbor has been fishing of late or before lockdown and if the mullet are still there and best tactics for them

Sorry I don't really know if they have shown or not, so far as I know the harbour is still closed, whether less activity there means braver mullet I don't know , the only one I've witnessed being caught was before the harbour was remodelled, the guy who caught it did so on the sort of float you buy in a pound shop!
I was so excited I fluffed the photo!

The biggest Mullet I have seen in Wales is inside Caernarfon Marina - a frequent lunchtime stroll would include staring at several huge ones cruising the pontoons hoping for a sandwich, but it is no fishing inside there at any time anyway,
However those Mullet do ocasionally leave rhe harbour but the Straits tide flow adds its own complications.

As a teenager I used to see them cruising Holyhead Breakwater but not seen them along the breakwater myself in recent years ( think they now prefer the inner harbour area)

My tacklebox includes some artificial bread in case an opportunity arises when normal service is resumed.

Mullet fishing is of course one route to madness you realise!

Not sure how well the tighter lockdown is understood outside ( or quite possibly inside) Wales

thanks do you or any other members know of any other places for mullet I have been looking on and off for places to fish for them for years thanks

fozzer12 wrote:

thanks do you or any other members know of any other places for mullet I have been looking on and off for places to fish for them for years thanks

Probably needs a trip further south to Cornwall ( or
book a trip to the Canaries or Med!)
We'd love to hear how you get on when circumstances permit.

Weymouth is the place I have seen lots and I have seen people fishing for them they are in shoals of 40 or 50 but I would check before going as it's in the marina areas and although I have seen them fishing it might be a problem if someone decides to challenge you.

We used to have a Rhyl expert who could catch them on garden peas.

MusselMan wrote:

We used to have a Rhyl expert who could catch them on garden peas.

And look what happened to him..

Notbad wrote:

MusselMan wrote:

We used to have a Rhyl expert who could catch them on garden peas.

And look what happened to him..

Good point! I do miss his mythical knowledge.

Hot day,calm sea the right hand side of the groyne by The Egremont Ferry pub on the Mersey mate,float rod size 6 book and make a bread soup mix in a bucket,keep slipping it in,you'll have to put the hours in mate but they are definitely there,I'll see if I can find more info.

https://www.wirralseafishing.co.uk/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=30088&p=250097&hilit=Mullet+wirral#p250097


Pricey days Dalmorton Rd here but I know people who have caught at Eggy Ferry Groyne.

I've seen them at Connah's quay,mainly at the end of the dock nearest to the sea.
They are too much of a patience job for me

There are usually plenty in the marine lake at West Kirby, if you are allowed to fish there now, I tried floating some bread for them but it turned in to the movie "The Birds" with the seagulls. Saw some council men open a drain sluice at low tide until they had enough mullet for tea. I heard that the mud in there is full of ragworm if they ever drain it.
When I was in Ireland, saw some Polish men catching some 6 to 10 pounds with bread dough on some harbour mud.

Not even allowed to walk around the marine lake at the
Minute Rhod because of the lack of social distancing,you
Can't find it anyway mate,the smutty nosed locals would
Be straight onto the plod

Ah, tell them the pegs are more than 2 meters apart. And have a one way only walk around it

Lots in the harbour at Rhyl this year. They move with the tide so would be worth having a look at the area between the road and railway bridge at different times of the tide. The hang around in the harbour over low water.

Always a few at Mostyn.

Have seen them swimming along the sea wall at Colwyn Bay in the summer and have seen a couple caught off Llandudno Pier in the summer.

Some big ones in the Conwy estuary, try off the marina entrance but you aren't allowed to fish into the marina itself.

Lots of places in the Menai Straits too but not sure how many you are allowed to fish. Port Dinorwig, Menai Bridge pier, around Church Island are the ones that spring to mind.

Further afield, they run along the beach at Pwllheli and in the harbour there too.