Posted: 8/7/2012 7:09:37 AM EDT
| No pic sorry. What kind of fish jumps out if the water in the gulf coast bay waters? They were maybe 5 to 10 inches long. There was a buttload yesterday near port isabel, some people were keeping them some were throwing in them back. |
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No pic sorry. What kind of fish jumps out if the water in the gulf coast bay waters? They were maybe 5 to 10 inches long. There was a buttload yesterday near port isabel, some people were keeping them some were throwing in them back. trout or this. |
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Mullet are good as "finger mullet" for bait for red drum (redfish) and flounder.
Other than that I got no use for them. They jump anywhere they happen to be, I saw my share in the surf at Follet's Island (between Surfside Village and Galveston) about 6-10 hours ago. I used finger mullet and shrimp yesterday, mullet only caught frickin' hardheads. Saw only one dolphin yesterday, no charkz and that's a good thing for a trout and red fisherman. Water was loverly as I was heading over the Intracoastal Bridge at Surfside, blue a few hunnert yards out and emerald to the beach. My fishing was in decent sandy green surf. The pellicans were heavily dive bombing a hundred yards out from me. Relaxing and only 1 decent trout to clean. Oh, back to OP, mullet also are in some of the fresh water lakes around here, especially those that pump in water from the rivers. They jump alla time in fresh water too. |
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I wonder whatthehell they eat...
BTW, I caught a ladyfish yesterday too, around 9" Year before last was ladyfish year. We caught over 18" Poor man's tarpon they say. Fun fight all on the top of the water. Every year brings some oddity it seems. After Hurricane Ike there were sharks... lots and lots of sharks! Last year I didn't fish much. A few years ago it was all trout... great year! ...except there was more bathers' rash and some red tide. We get red tide I guess almost every year concentrated in one bay or another but Texas coast is almost all beach I guess from Brownsville to the Sabine. Quoted:
Going with mullet. It's unusual to catch them on hook unless you foul hook them. I've caught thousands of them in a cast net, some up to 15", but have never eaten them. I'll put them on the "try" list... |
| I used to go fishing all the time with my grandpa when I was a kid during the summers and I remember one time when we were riding out into the channel there by Rockport a mullet jumped into our boat. He had never eaten one before, but it got fried up that night with the rest of the fish for dinner. |
| thanks for all the replies, turned out to be mullet. I went back the following day and caught a shit load just casting the net in the blind. I would throw them back but I kept a black drum i netted and my 10 year old son caught a 20 inch speckled trout. his first fish ever. |