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Hi everyone i was just wondering the best way to catch mullet for bait in NSW obviously cast nets are illegal so that counts that out i have a poddy mullet trap but not always very successful. any hints would be greatful.
we used to use a home made trap for them and used to get heaps.
Take a clear bottle, like a 'cottees cordial' bottle, and cut a hole in one of the broad sides about 40mm in diameter. Put a couple of leads inside the bottle to sink it and stuf some bread inside. Find some shallow water where poddies are congregating, about 1-2ft deep. Sink the bottle (with the lid still on or they'll escape) hole side facing up with some bread inside and throw some bread around to burely up the mullet. when the mullet are around and in big numbers, you can check them every 15min or so but we used to set them up, go and pump some yabbies come back and we'd have s hite load of them.
To get them out, just undo the lid and pour them out onto the ground, in a bucket, whatever's easy. if you still need more, repeat the process.
Cheap and easy to make, just make sure you put enough lead in them so they don't float away if the current is running hard
Poddies can be tricky, you need to find the best tide for your area, around my way, they trap best right at the top of the tide, right up on the flats, but then they are good on the last of the runout, down near the entrance, anything in between is very hit and miss, so it might take a bit of sussing out, but once mastered, they will be a breeze.
get one of those yabbie sieves, the ones like a big plastic dish with holes in the bottom....get some light fibreglas flyscreen material, cut a two inch hole in the middle of it, stretch it over the sieve and secure with some string round the edges. put some bread in it, then leave it in a calm spot in about 1-2 foot of water near where you are yabbying, will get any poddies that are about. There are many variations to this method, probably most more efficient than mine, but you get the drift (spent most of my life in NSW where cast and drag nets ARE illegal).
Fish a herring jig with the feathers or tassles cut off under the smallest float that you can get. Put the smallest amount of bread or bread past on each hook.
If the fish are feeding well, strike gently on a bob of the float. If they are scared, reel in slowly so they shoot up from underneath to grab the bait and hook themselves.
Getting the school feeding is important.
Saw this one at Shelly rocks near Ballina.
Find rockpools on incomming tide where poddies are comming in with the wash. Get the largest clear pyrex mixing bowl you can find. Put a layer of fly screen over the top. Fasten with a lond elastic band as a lid, trim edges. Make a 2"square hole on the top and put bread inside.
Sink in one of the wash pools. Walk well away for 5-10 minutes. Walk back quickly and pull bowl up.
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