Mullet (Thin-lipped) Fishing in Gloucestershire

Small Mepps-style spoon baited with rag, slow-trotted along margins; clear neap tides in summer. Fish just after high when flow eases.

Work small baited spinners in the top foot of water along the canal outflows and flood tide slicks. Clear, calm summer evenings on neaps are best.

Work small Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag across slack margins on the flood. Warm months on neaps; target eddies by the canal outfall and moorings. Stealth and light gear.

Late spring-autumn; retrieve a Mepps-style spinner tipped with a sliver of rag/Isome along slack edges and creek mouths on the flood. 6-8 lb fluorocarbon, stealth, polarised glasses.

Baited spinner or small Mepps tipped with rag. Work the basin/slack water on neaps in clear spells. Summer shoals; stealth and light gear.

Small Mepps/spoon with ragworm teaser worked in side creeks and along seams on neap tides when water clears. Stealthy approach; summer to early autumn.

Summer on neap tides in slack eddies; Mepps-style spinner with ragworm trailer, or fine float gear with bread. Work margins when clarity allows.

Small spoon/spinner with rag teaser, slow retrieve along tide lines on the flood; Jun–Sep in clearer water near pill mouths and walls.

Small spinner with rag strip worked in the flow near the outflow at HW on clear neaps; summer evenings.

Work a Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag strip up the pill on clear neaps. Daylight, last of the flood to HW; stay quiet and mobile.

Small Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag, worked in slack water on neap tides; daytime in summer; target creeks and eddies tight to the bank.

Brackish pill specialist. Small spinner with rag teaser or tiny worm/bread on size 8–12. Sight-fish the flood; neaps and clearer water near HW.

Clearer neaps in summer. Work a small Mepps or bubble-float rig with rag strip 1-2ft behind. Sight-fish shoals along flooding creeks and outfalls.

Jun–Sep in calm water inside the pill; Mepps-style spoon with red rag tip, slow-trolled with the tide on neaps.

Work a Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag strip in creeks and slack margins on neap tides. Clearer water in summer; fish tight to the bank.

Jun–Sep on neaps when clarity improves. Small Mepps/Delta spoon tipped with Isome, slow retrieve along margins and eddies. Keep mobile; sight-fish if possible.

Small spoons or spinners tipped with Isome or rag, slow across the outfall seam on neaps. Summer daylight in clearer water.

Neap tides and clearer water; small Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag, worked in slack margins/outfalls on the flood; late spring–early autumn.

Small Mepps-style spinner behind a bubble float worked along the flood bank on neap tides; clearer summer water helps. Target creeks at top of tide.

Small Mepps-style spinner tipped with rag/Isome along margins on neaps in clear water; summer. Also bread under a float near calm spots. Stealthy approach.

Summer in coloured brackish water. Small Mepps/blade spinner tipped with ragworm, worked across drains/creeks at slack or early flood. Stealth and light fluorocarbon help.

Baited spinners or small Mepps with rag/maddies; work the flood along the margins in settled summer conditions.

Summer neaps over HW. Baited spinner (rag strip) worked along sluices/outfalls and creeks. Long, light fluorocarbon trace and stealth.

Summer on clearer neaps. Small spinners tipped with Isome/worm, worked along surface slicks, creek mouths and eddies on the flood/early ebb. Stealthy approach.

Neap tides in clearer water; retrieve small Mepps-style spoon with Delta fly through gentle tide runs and drains. Best Jul–Sep in daylight.