Mullet (Thin-lipped) Fishing in Bristol

Small spinners with worm strip worked along scum lines and outflows on the flood; summer to autumn; fish tight to the walls near the Pump House.

Summer-early autumn. Work small spinners or Mepps with Isome/baited trebles high in the water on the flood, best on neaps, along the wall by the bridge/outflows.

Mepps-style spoon with a small rag strip worked in the flow on the flood/slack. Sight-fish along the walls under the bridge in summer; use light leaders and stealth.

Summer–autumn; neap floods. Small Mepps/spoon with 1–2 cm rag strip worked along harbour mouth and channel edges; 6–8 lb fluoro, size 6–8 hooks.

Summer–early autumn. Work a size 2–4 Mepps-style spoon tipped with a sliver of rag along the edge on the flood/neaps. Slow retrieve in the slack by the walls.

Summer on the flooding tide. Small spinners (Mepps) tipped with rag/Isome along outfalls and weedlines. 6–8 lb fluoro, long leader, stealthy approach.

Small Mepps-style spoon with rag trailer worked in the creek on the flood; clearer neaps help. May-Sep; long fluorocarbon trace and stealth.

Small Mepps/spinner tipped with ragworm; slow retrieve across the flow on neaps when water is clearer. Cast ahead of cruising fish. Late spring–autumn.

Summer neaps with clearer water; bubble float and small spinner tipped with rag strip. Work along margins on the top of the tide with a slow retrieve; stealth helps.

Neap tides and clearer water. Mepps-style spinner with ragworm tail in back eddies and along the wall; sight-fish cruising shoals on bright, calm afternoons.

Tiny spinner (Mepps 0–1) tipped with isome/rag in clear water along the wall. Work outflows and surface slicks on the flood. Summer best.

Small Mepps-style spinner tipped with ragworm, trotted along the wall/outfalls on the flood. Best on summer neaps in daylight.

Tiny Mepps-style spinner tipped with a ragworm strip; slow retrieve across the flow on the flood in summer. 6-8 lb fluoro leader; cover the channel edges and seams.

Mepps-style spinner tipped with isome/rag in the flow on neap floods; long, fine leaders and slow retrieves past shoals in the Basin/New Cut.

Small Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag/Isome in slack water below the bridge on neap tides; clear summer days. Long leaders and stealth.

Baited spinner (small Mepps + rag/Isome) trotted in the flow on the flood; target clearer water and sunlit runs. Late spring to autumn.

Small spinners with a rag strip worked in the flow on the flood; clear water, daylight. Target outflows and marina channels, late spring to early autumn.

Summer. Tiny Mepps/spinner tipped with rag, slow retrieve in surface slicks on the flood. Stealth and 6-8 lb fluoro.

Late spring–autumn; small Mepps with a red rag strip behind a boom. Retrieve slowly across surface slicks on last of flood/first ebb.

Summer neaps; baited Mepps or small spinners worked through slack margins and creases. Stealthy approach pays.

Baited Mepps (rag or isome) retrieved slowly along the wall on the flood in clear water. Late spring to early autumn.