Jacksonville Beach - I got down to the beach about 7am. The tide was way out and low tide was expected about 10am. There was very little surf and light wind. Conditions were good for casting and visibilty into the water. I started fishing with shrimp flavored Fish Bites, on which I caught a few small Croakers, which I tossed back. My neighbor Scott was fishing a little south of me (he probably got to the beach at daylight). I walked down for a chat and he commented that he was seeing some schools of finger mullet passing through. I got back to my pole and focused on the water within my net casting range. After a while a saw some small ripples parting around where my line entered the water. I ran out into the hip deep water and threw my 6ft cast net. I caught the tail end of small school of finger sized mullet. I had about 20 mullet in the net. I could see that Scott snagged a few as well. I hooked up a mullet, tossed it out, set my rod in the spike, and got my net ready. I saw several more schools of ~ 50 to 100 mullet come by and netted what I could. I didn't get any bites on my line with the mullet. I did get plenty of bait, which I took home and froze in quart bags for later use. Although I didn't catch any fish, it was still exciting to see the mullet coming back through. The mullet run should ramp up for a few more weeks, wiht the schools getting much larger and more frequent. The predators will come inshore for the mullet soon and the real fun will begin. I can almost taste the redfish already!! I had a blast as usual and plan to be back out on the beach Saturday morning.