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George Maltby

George Maltby

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'tis the season chaps, here's the best of a 7 fish haul yesterday (don't know why i am pulling such a stupid face), not a monster at 2 1/2 -3lbs but there are bigger fish in residence, lost a 6lber the day before...nightmare.
Solid muscle scrappers.

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Well done George. Was that on the South Coast?

I love catching them in Cornwall, incredible fighters! I've all but given up on the ones in the Severn estuary near me. With the amount of hours I've spent watching them swim around my bait it would be more cost effective to drive to Dorset!

Tricky buggers!
Adam
 
Great stuff George :)
If I wasn't so wrapped up in my carp, tench, barbel (et al).......fishing, then these are the single species I would focus on. Had a few on float fished bread and without question they are, pound for pound, one of the most, (if not the most), sporting fish we have in our waters, well maybe black bream aside.

Keep meaning to stick the SS WBC on the trailor and get down to the south coast estuaries and have a proper crack at 'em.

Well done again ;)


Ian
 
Great fishing George.
I always see plenty when i peer into most of the Dorset harbours i walk around.....still yet to try for them. Do they take lures or is it predominately bread fishing?

Steve
 
Mostly trotted bread and sometimes harbour rag, but the real "hard men" - the guys who like being beaten up and invariably failing and making light of the resulting serious mental damage - go after them with fly.
 
It was in the helford river,
i fish almost exclusively with liquidized bread and breadflake, some people like to make a real stink with mackeral guts and whatever hideous fishy offal they can find to mix with bread/bran, i have never found it to make much difference as all of my marcks are fishing structure with the fish already in residence, the only thing that i do is leave the crusts on the bread when i liquidize to ensure it floats a bit longer and forms a streaming cloud under the handfulls.
Then just fish a loafer float, or even better to freeline with just enough shot pinched on the line to ensure the flake sinks very slowly downthrough the tide, almost neutral bouyancy. However, i do find the key to success is adaptability as invariably what worked a treat last time will fail altogether next time, they are a truly bisare fish like that and a great challenge.
I also find your hook up rate is greatly improved if you fish the flake subsurface rather than floating, and this tends to nail a better size of fish.
The only fish i have found to fight harder pound for pound in our inshore waters is the mighty gilthead.
 
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Big Bootean Mullet Tip (since discovering the method's efficacy for some unapproachable / easily spooked estuary mullet at the age of 19): the bottom-ballasted, lightly shotted, long-range waggler.
 
Arrr yes the fly Paul, would dearly love to do that for mullet.
Saw two guys right up the Fowey river some years ago doing just that, a joy to watch indeed :)

Ian
 
Just look at the scenery in that photo, couple that with hooking something that doesn`t know when it`s beaten. Sweet Mary Joseph!!!!!! why do I live so far in land.

I reckon, if I lived on the coast I`d probably spend all summer after mullet and then spend winters after my chub and live a life of frustrated bliss, if such a thing could exist.

Mic
 
George Maltby said:
It was in the helford river
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Ah, I thought it looked like the Fal!

I've caught a couple of smaller mullet on the 'fly' - albeit a bread fly. Still not cracked them on a more traditional immitation. I think you could catch them on a telegraph pole and they'd still have your heart beating!

Cheers
Adam
 
I did catch some in Pagham harbour on the fly using a Sinfoils Fry (Ken Sinfoil of Weir Wood) fished slow and about 2 ft down. This was long before anglers were told they were no longer wellcome, and the harbour was turned over to a nature reserve.
Probably the most frustrating, patience testing fishing ever.
 
Managed an awesome haul of mullet in the Helford this morning...10 in total between me and my father.
Best around 4lb...nice fish...pics to follow when i can find the lead.
 
Well done George,

I had a week in Cornwall with the other half last month. Although the weather wasn't ideal I did manage a few hours on one evening on a rocky beach where the mullet always seem to show up. There were some big fish around but they only seemed interested in spawning, thrashing around and chasing eachother. I did catch a couple of smaller ones on bread and they still put up a cracking scrap on light tackle!

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Cheers
Adam
 
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