I was born and raised in Auburndale, Fl. Before i was a teen we spent every summer @ El Jobean/Boca Grande fishing from the still active back then train trestle. My Grandfather would stand on the trestle with about a 12 ft calcutta pole (very stout one) with about 10 ft of piano wire attached to it and on the business end was a huge weighted treble hook. A mullet would "bump" the wire, he'd snatch up and up would come a mullet. Yes...we ate mullet, snapper, flounder...and oh yeah, netted coolers full of shrimp under the bridges with a coleman lantern and and VERY long dip net. Those days are gone.
Later on we learned how to catch them hook and line over at Apollo Beach, and for about 60 seconds after you hook the mullet you think you have a freight train on your line!
I have tried to go back to Apollo Beach a Couple times this past June and could not even get a nibble from a mullet. Is there a certain time of year when they bite better? I remember when we went it was hotter than Hades.
Guava cobbler!! Now thats interesting!!!!
Big Time!!