I often see mullet out of casting range of a float, short of using a really big float, how can I reach them and keep a sensitive bite detection?
For fish at a medium distance, try using a long piece of peacock quill, carrying enough weight so that only an inch or so shows above the surface. Being long and thin, it will cast like a dart quite a distance. If you need to get out even further, attach a water filled bubble float to your main line, then attach a porcupine quill float rig to a paternoster above the bubble float. That will get you further distance, but makes a bit of a splash on landing! For ground-baiting at distance, use a catapult; throwing stick (a piece of plastic piping can be effective. Push it into bread mash, then with it partly filled with bread mash flick it energetically at the area you are ground baiting); or long handled spoon. If you still cant throw bait as far as you can cast the bubble float rig, try filling a PVA bag with dry crumbled bread, and attaching it directly to the rig (PVA bags are water soluble).
