Catching mullets in Sf bay

Most bait fish taste good when deep fried.
Just salt them and/or soak them in soy sauce.
 

Or just salted, peppered and grilled.

If you ever get tired of frying and grilling your bait. Try it with coconut milk. You will love it.

In Florida they fish for them w cane poles and corn as bait in the rivers. Mostly off docks. I caught one once on a nightcrawler / canepole fishing for bluegill in the Santa Fe river. But mostly we would cast net them and use them for bait for snook and tarpon.

Mullet are very shy and wary to angle for. My extended family lives on the island of Brach in the Adriatic Sea, and they set overnight traps for them there. Local anglers (who are very patient) sometimes catch a mullet on bread dough balls. It takes just the right amount of time for the mullet to chew past the small #8 hook on a very light bite, to actually hook one. Usually found near a seawall or jetty.

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I used to catch them back home in a flooded rice fields with fine Gillnet. they are very weary fish, easy spooked and its a bit of understanding their ripples to know where to set the net. Tasty fish and one of my favorite. I tried to buy some at oriental store. Never again. 
They are only good when fresh.