Mullet (Thin-lipped) Fishing in Dorset

Modified Mepps with small ragworm trotted midstream on neap tides; work current seams by the groynes in clear water, daytime.

Retrieve a small spoon/Mepps tipped with rag through tide seams on the making tide; clear water in summer fishes best.

Spin small Mepps or Delta spoons with rag strip in the brackish flow under the bridge; clear, calm summer mornings on a flooding tide.

Small spinner with red rag strip worked through the channels on the flood; calm, bright days late spring–autumn.

Late spring–autumn; retrieve a small Mepps-style spinner tipped with ragworm through the tide run and across weed-bed edges.

Shoals can show in the harbour mouth in summer; try small hooks with bread/flake or tiny ragworm sections.

Size 2–4 mepps-style spinner tipped with red ragworm, slow retrieve across the surface film on the flood in summer over the shallows by the park.

Work a small Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag near the stream outflow on a flooding tide; steady retrieve in clear water.

Often with thick-lips over clean patches; small bits of bread/harbour rag, keep loosefeed steady and reduce lead to avoid spooking.

Summer neaps in clear water. Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag; steady retrieve along surface slicks and tide lines on the flood.

Summer on first of ebb/flood down the creeks; small spinners with Isome or baited Delta; steady retrieve along outflows; 6-8 lb fluoro leader.

Harbour shallows on neap tides in summer. Small spinner (Mepps-style) tipped with Isome or worm, slow-rolled with the flow.

Small Mepps-style spinner with rag strip in eddies on the flood; stealth needed. Late spring to early autumn.