Hi TheBigAR - and welcome. With JAOM you need to follow the directions precisely. If the recipe suggests you bottle as soon as the fruit falls (ie because much of the CO2 in solution has dissipated the fruit can no longer stay afloat) and the mead is clear(the yeast will have flocculated and so dropped out of solution) then that's the time to bottle... BUT you may find that the mead has not yet become bright and clear and /or the fruit may still be in suspension... so I would wait while longer. I have never chosen to make JAOM but racking would not seem to be indicated as the recipe calls for bread yeast and bread yeast does not pack into "cakes". At the slightest opportunity the yeast will flow back into solution and you will have a very cloudy , yeast filled mead.