Thread: Mullet 12km up river from beach

I've seen mullet well upstream too, they can live in freshwater or at least brackish water. NIWA have recorded them around 150km upriver, so no surprises. Annoyingly, they do look like trout at times. I wouldn't mind, but the grey mullet won't usually take a fly.

I didn’t realise they could live in fresh water, just surprised me on the amount of fish I was seeing. Had no luck on the spinner or fly they were just grazing away on algae in the river and my lures just seemed to spook them

okay -yes they will travel inland some distance - a net will catch them and smoked one damn good eating fish yummy