Working The Mullet Run...

[Deep C]

Seldom do you see me over here on the inshore but we are at that wonderful transition time in south Florida where the mullet migrate through. If you live here or will be visiting any time soon its a veritable smorgasboard of stuff to be caught near the schools.
Wow! Did I have fun today!!!. Woke to sunny skies and gentle southwest breeze. The tropical crap we had on top of us moved a bit north, became a tropical storm and sucked the clouds out with it... My arm showed signs of some mobility so I just couldn't help my self and went fishing. Nobody around to go with so it was just a solo trip. Wasn't gonna be my usual style of hard core blue water stuff . I grabbed a baitcaster outfit and cast net. I wanted to play in the mullet schools for a while.
Got to the marina and fired up... Fuel guage showed empty? Funny she had 15or so gallons left the other day. Topped her off at 43 gallons on a 45 gallon tank? Somebody must have helped them selves to my precious 93 octane. Oh well...
Slipped out and reveled in my newly freed up stering. It was nice to turn the wheel with one hand. Started looking in all my usual spots where the mullet have been for the last couple weeks they were gone...
I looked in the inlet and out side and they were nowhere to be found. I was taking a second pass though when I some spook under passing pelicans. I slid in and loaded the cast net. The crippled arm wasn't much help but managed to bag a few. As I put them ion my transom mounted wells with no lids the all took to the air and escaped one by one... A second throw bagged some more and a plastic bag and couple coke cans in that well prevented their escape by shortening their "head start room".
I stayed with the pack as it worked to the inlet mouth. and when it got there it was chaos! First bite was a tarpon that did one jump and went away. Second and third bites were freight train jacks of 25 pounds or better. Then a second tarpon wolfed a fourth bait. I dropped back way long... Perhaps too long. Poked it and it gave a short jump... Ran maybe fifty yards and just kinda wallowed as I cranked it in. The hook was nowhere in sight down its gullet so I just cut it free. Hope it makes it. Didn't look happy as it kind sunk/swam away.
The school moved down the outside of the jetty on the windy side and I had to cast long as it was really choppy up close. I bowed up on a short snook and another jack before they made the beach. The casts were even longer from the back side of the surf break. The cudas showed in force and I pronged a 20lb speciman. My next cast was hit by a cuda as soon as it hit the water. I just let it set. I bowed up this time on a big fish. It took me up sea then back toward the inlet and deeper water... I was hoping for a big African Pompano but about forty minutes later I was letting a big black tip shark go...
Decided to call it a short day as I didn't want to get too far from home with the big black clouds closing back in.... Still Wow! I had a good time...

[Proheat]

Sounds like you had a good day!
Go have some fun- you deserve it

[Deep C]

Glad I got it in today... The weather windo has slammed shut in a big way. We have a tropical storm that was born and died to day just north of us. One trying to form to the south west and actually come this way. Then another system to our east that is also supposed to collide with the other. Then a big swath of convection to the south streaming directly over us. Might be a while before we see the sun again...

[AhiSlayer]

Aloha Deep

I remember my first mullet run off Singer Island. I threw the cast net and pulled up two five gallon bucket fulls in the first and only throw!

My skills with a cast net were never so exagerated as they were that day. Steve and I used to fight over how to use a cast net all summer long, it was allways the boat drivers fault when one of us pulled up an empty net or one or two measly greenies. Steve didn't even wanna throw the net after he saw my haul. Still makes me laugh.

We tossed down the anchor and jumped in to swim with the mullet. They were so thick I thought I would be able to reach out and grab one, but they a little quicker than they look from the surface
good times, them times

Glad the surfers didn't get hooked by ya, they don't fight very good untill ya get um boatside
ahi

[sea scape]

Glad I got it in today... The weather windo has slammed shut in a big way. We have a tropical storm that was born and died to day just north of us. One trying to form to the south west and actually come this way. Then another system to our east that is also supposed to collide with the other. Then a big swath of convection to the south streaming directly over us. Might be a while before we see the sun again...

Are you saying there are more storms out there besides Tammy? I have not been able to watch tv much, so I have not been able to keep up on the storm action.... I think I will cry if you say there are more cocked and ready to fire this way!!!! and these words

"Then a big swath of convection to the south streaming directly over us."

Has me really worried because anykind of swath of covection this summer that streams over you seems to meander over this way with a might force.. Keep it on your side Deep C!!!

I cannot wait till hurricane season is over!!!! This has been the longest summer seems like it is NEVER gonna end

Oh well, I guess worrying about it is not going to change my life one way or another...


Surfergirl

[Deep C]

SG
Not quite cocked but in the chamber... Last year I was hogging all the fun. I dealt with the "A" storm as it went past the Washington Canyon. Sat through the remnants of the "B" storm and Charly as they wormed up past the north east and NEw Jersey. Don't know what happened with the "D" and "E" storms then had 31hours of Frances working every bit of me over with a bullseye. Ivan went up the gulf all the way to like Canada and shot back down here for a drive by as a reborn tropical storm. Then came Jeanne as a three and what I had repaired in my factory from Frances was wiped out once and for all.
Decided to be not so much of a pig this year. Let Alicia, Katrina, and Rita start here and hit us first before letting you guys play... Relax. Warm baths and cold showers can fix anything that duct tape wont...

[Muddybottomblues]

I was gonna go out on Tuesday, but the weather looked a little iffy. So I passed. You must of just got in the open window to go fishing. I am chewing the same dirt as you here in S.Fla. The weather has been crap. Was not so much worried about the rain as I was the seas at 5 to 7 they had been forecasting. Hell, just yesterday a High school football player took a lightning strike to the chest and died, two other kids around him are in critical condition. I think I am gonna let all this crap blow out of here and take the wife and 6 year old daughter out on Thursday next week (teacher workday). Go do some bottom fishing and play with the mullies and see what happens.
Al/MBB

[shortbus]

Im working the mullet run too - with 1oz swimming plugs for the striped ones.

The mullet are so thick at IBSP - never seen it like this.

[Deep C]

The crap really came in after I docked yesterday. On and off since. Some thunder and lightning and rain. Now the wind is back. My big boat's motor is here and will be reassembled through the weekend...