This thread has been cracking me up. I've read Milton Love's "Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast" cover to cover several times and although I don't have it with me here, I don't think a "mullet" was ever mentioned in there. I've fished the SB Harbor a hundred or more times and never seen, snagged, or heard of a mullet being caught. I do know that there are smelt from 4 to 16 inches in there. In the late summer there is also a lot of small mackrel in there which tend to splash and make quick jumps on the surface. I've also seen schools of sardines and anchovies, but never anything like a mullet. So I'm kind of stumped on this one.
There are some wierd fish that live in the outfall at Morro Bay. 10 to 16 inches long, yellowish head and they jump out of the water a lot. Maybe those are mullet? Somebody clue me in here, I think I'm mullet illiterate.