Every fall season the mullet begin their migration on Florida’s coastline. The mullet saturate the beaches and parts of the intercostals waterways.
Anglers that wait for these mullet runs expect great fishing to follow and it usually does. Snook, tarpon, sharks, jacks, barracuda, and many other species of fish follow the mullet run and feed.
Working the beaches you can usually cast net several mullet for your fishing trip. It is best to stay close to the schools of mullet and throw your bait on the outside of the school. Tarpon and other fish usually pick off the fish that stray from the group.
Mullet work on safety in numbers and when they break up, it usually means being attacked by a predatory fish.
In our experience mullet make fair offshore baits. Depending on the day, you can expect kingfish, sailfish, tuna, dolphin, and other pelagic species to all be enticed by mullet. However we have seen these same fish ignore these baits and prefer a spunky pilchard, herring, or Goggle eye.
