Ive heard that mullet make lip marks. What do they look like?
Lip marks are a sure sign that mullet have been feeding. Look for them in algae covered mud, and especially on flat pieces of algae covered wood etc, dumped into the estuary. The metalwork of piers, concrete slipways and wooden harbour walls are favourite places for mullet to browse algae. The marks they make are two wavy parallel lines, a couple of inches or so long, as though someone had drawn them by lightly running two fingers through the mud/algae. They are made by the bottom lip of a mullet, which is dissected by a V in the centre of the lip. Unfortunately the length and width of marks do not correspond to the size of the fish making them. Ive measured the mouth width of quite a few mullet, and like people, there appears to be no correlation between the size of their mouth and their overall build. Lip marks usually fade pretty quickly, so its easy to distinguish between recent marks and those made several days ago. The frustrating thing about lip marks is that they only tell you
