I've had a fair few mullet over the years, Risque. Top method is bread, fishing flake over bread mash. To make the mash, just put a couple of sliced loaves in your landing net, dunk it under the water, wring out the water while it's still in the net (like wringing out a cloth) then dump the lot in a bucket and mash it up with your hands.
The locals like to add some mackerel flesh to this mix (NO SKIN!) and then fish either bread flake on a size 14-10, or a little chunk of mackerel flesh that's been left out to dry in the sun.
The trick with mullet is prebaiting the right tide. It's not always true, but if you can see them, they're much harder to catch. In general, fishing a rising tide in water which, at low tide is at least four feet deep, is best, especially when the spring flood tide coincides with dawn. And you're in luck because the week you're away it's a minor spring tide, and high tide in Looe is around 7am... perfect. It's many, many times more successful at sunrise.
One old trick that works is to get to your spot at low tide and make little piles of mash at intervals up the tideline, so that as the tide covers them, it washes a stream of particles into the water. Very good where you have a rocky prominatory next to your deepish water.
You need some big wagglers that take a lot of shot - 2SSG more more. The reason is that you want the bait to plummet to the bottom and the float to be stable. These rigs are a bugger to cast, but if you want, you can fish them sliding.
You can catch mullet on many other methods, too; fly rod and maggots, Mepps spinner and ragworm, floating crust, etc (and if you can get them feeding on bread crust, go for it; think chub). But in my experience (I've had four fives, and countless fours), the method I've described is the most consistent.
6lb mainline minimum, 4lb fluoro hooklength at least two feet from the bulk shot.
