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ziacatcher
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 Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:04 pm Post subject: First time seeing this |
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Just got back from going out to my dock to see if there are any fish around the lights. go out there and I hear this noise against my bulkhead and I thought the wind is pushing waves up here pretty strong. And I looking at canal and there's ripples all up and down the canal and then I realized that wind is hardly blowing. I make a couple cast and each cast I wound up snagging a mullet. The mullet were so thick that they were just from side to side of the canal and all up and down it was just amazing. I lived in this house since 1991 and I have never come close to seeing that many mullet in this canal. I tried to film it but all that came out was reflective light off the water. Just thinking about it I am still amazed.
on another note though the water in the canal is so Brown that you can hardly see any of the underwater lights up and down it. Looks like I just have a little flashlight under the water off my dock |
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BayFly
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Interesting! Were they finger size mulllet or large ones? |
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R.Arnold
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Location: Calallen
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| hopefully it's not a browntide or something even worse that is starving the canal of oxygen sending all the fish to the top that are too stupid to leave. |
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ziacatcher
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| BayFly wrote: | | Interesting! Were they finger size mulllet or large ones? |
Ranged from finger mullet on up. The ones I snagged were about 10 to 12 in. |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:48 am Post subject: Re: First time seeing this |
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | The mullet were so thick that they were just from side to side of the canal and all up and down it was just amazing. |
Seen this a few times over the years. Especially remember it from my teen-age years in the coves by the seaplane ramps on the base here in the Bluff. There would be massive hoards of mullet, moving right along the surface, almost looking like they are gulping at air. Not a low DO thing, but rather a feeding thing. Particularly in the Spring, when the plankton bloom is really going gangbusters, I've seen this behavior.
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ziacatcher
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| I've seen it in Laguna plenty of times but never up in my canal |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | I've seen it in Laguna plenty of times but never up in my canal |
Maybe your Mystery Bloom from some time ago is back, and the mullet have come to your rescue!!!  |
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Donnie
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: First time seeing this |
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | ziacatcher wrote: | | The mullet were so thick that they were just from side to side of the canal and all up and down it was just amazing. |
Seen this a few times over the years. Especially remember it from my teen-age years in the coves by the seaplane ramps on the base here in the Bluff. There would be massive hoards of mullet, moving right along the surface, almost looking like they are gulping at air. Not a low DO thing, but rather a feeding thing. Particularly in the Spring, when the plankton bloom is really going gangbusters, I've seen this behavior.
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Remember seeing this back in the 60's in the nueces - up near the spillway in callalen, dont remember any particulars about why they were doing it.
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Sinker
Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 19 Oct 2016
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| This maybe a dumb question but is this a prespawn or spawning mullet activity? |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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They spawn in the Fall.
Just hungry now. |
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