plastic mullet

[slyman]

Woke this morning with magic conditions, so I went fishing instead of hitting the books like I'd planned. Water was glassed out but chockers full of weed, branches and the occasional log. Went looking for a few snapper and I managed a couple, one around 40cms and another that just hit the 50cm mark, the bigger of the two came home for dinner, the other released.

Around lunch we spotted a large school of bait up in the shallows chasing bait around, so we went to investigate, as you do, we thought it may have been a school of tailor chasing the small bait we could see scattering.

Turned out to be a big school of sea mullet, my brother hooked up to the one in the pic, clean take in the corner of the mouth. I've heard of them taking a plastic on the rare occasion but never seen one. It was about as long as the snapper I took home .

Our mate Dave also managed a nice 45cm dusky later towards the bottom of the tide, he took that home for his dinner.

simon

[Pistol_P]

Nice one..!

I have only ever caught one mullet on a plastic about the same size you got.
They certainly go hard on light gear!

Nice Jew bait too....

Pete

[nuggstar]

iv done it too with a squidgie bug, boy do thay go hard

[chief]

Those mullet do go hard, I've got a few now on squidgee critters with 2 in one sesh.Good work on the squire ,cheers

[breamnut]

haha its a bit of a supprise on the light gear when u hook one.
first time i did it i though i was onto a nice size trevally.
we were camping upper tweed once and my mate caught a mullet on a live herring fishing for jack!!! the hookes way down its gob so i guess every fish has to eat meat at some point

[Keechie]

i remember my first and only mullet on a plastic i was fishing a berkley gulp sandworm in camo hard against some magroves and it took off under the branches, rod very low to water that low the reel was nearly in the water and managed to pull it out after thinking it was a 40cm+ bream it ended up being 32cm up a caloundra. well done hopefully you get onto a few more.

regards,
keechie

[slyman]

Nice Jew bait too....

Pete

Yeah we thought of that, but all we had other than jigheads was a couple of 6/0 circle hooks, I suppose we could have pinned it through the nose and sent it on its merry way. It would have to be a decent sized fish to eat this bait!



simon

[snapper napper]

haye mate nice mullet my mate his brother and i went fishing for bream/flathead and he hooked a nice sized mullet bit bigger then yours on an Sx40 HB it shocked me 2