mullet spawning season?

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#1 Post by **dunner** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:05 pm

Anyone know exactly when the mullet spawn?
I was trying for them tonight with bread, but they seemed to be ....well....doing something else....
I put bread right on their noses...not interested!
:oops:

#2 Post by **JimH** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:09 am

As far as I'm aware mullet spawn in the open ocean not in the estuaries, they are also fractional and of course have no defined season. Fish dont respect dates and spawning is determined by other factors such as temperature, light, food supply etc.

#3 Post by **dunner** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:48 pm

Thanks Jim.
They were at one point grouped in a very large shoal and it looked like they were squirming all over each other in very shallow water and very excited... def. not feeding and it was an estuarine area, so who knows??
Still its nice to have some mysteries!!!!

#4 Post by **Davy Murdoch** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:48 pm

from what i know thick lipped only spawn every other year.
i was talking to a bloke the other day who witnessed similar behaviour during the height of the summer.he said he could only describe what he saw as "spawning behaviour".
we`ve found a spot in Strangford lough where there are young mullet of 3-6 inches,so its very possible that that what he saw as its was only a mile or so away from the baby mullet.

#5 Post by **lumpy** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:38 am

ive withnessed this every year for the past 4-5 years in the smaller bays in some of the estuaries down here..really does look like spawning behaviour..

#6 Post by **dunner** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:50 pm

Guess it shall remain a mystery...how bad though!?! :shock:

Thanks for the info !! :wink:

#7 Post by **The Austrian** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:25 pm

thick lipped mullet spawn in late spring near the shoreline. Their eggs are laid freely above rough or rocky ground, the fry hatches after about a week and feeds on plankton until they grow to 10-15 cm (normally within a year) - full maturity is reached after 4-5 years.

source: http://www.angeltreff.org/fischdb/meeraesche.html (in German though, just translated the crucial bits)

#8 Post by **alby** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:48 am

Often found that up here, early on in the year when they appear first they seem to just skulk around nudging & butting eath other (similar to mating rituals you see in Coppers on a Sunday after a GAA match

).

But when the water heats up in may or early june they begin to switch on to the bread.

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