Mulloway lure advice

[Big_unit]

Ive waited so long to see a topic this good about Jew !!!

Ive asked questions before (maybe they were the wrong ones) but Ive never seen answers so crystal clear, good job to all involved.



Chhers
James

[Steve_Monckton]

I could be more specific but that would make it too easy for the locals around here fishpod. We have had two good runs of jew here this winter so far and you could set your watch by them. The second run dried up a tad as some of them got stuck in nets up the river. I have had a lot of jew trips where I have told my jew mates the fish would come on the chew at a certain time and 90% of the time I would be out by no more than 15 minutes. But like I said, I caught two nice jew tonight.
P.s. Take plenty of SP's along as tailor normally like them for an entree.
whole squid seems to be working for some guys around here lately. Best of luck fishpod, steve.

[BoLeX]

Great work rabbi.... dont worry i have the patience as im used to long cold nights chasing them here...tonight i picked up some more lures from work -- rmg scorp 150mm in a mullet colour(as suggested by aussiefool) along with a yo-zuri hydro squid,manns 20+ and a 120mm berkely thunderstick.

Ill keep perservering and trying new things until i crack the lure code!.

thankyou for your input guys!

geeze i love this fish!

[BoLeX]

I know its an old thread but i thought i'd bring it back up....

I finally got myself a mulloway on lure 2 nights ago The past few months have seen me buying a huge array of hard bodied lures in the hope that a fish may jump on....

I recently found a school of fish in our local system....visibly cruising in the light shadow line.Needless to say i've thrown everything at them and continued to draw a blank...

Then i thought i was time to match the hatch somewhat. There are loads of small frogmouth pillies at this spot....So i decided to think small!

On goes a 2" gulp product!

At this time i decided to use the bream outfit with 6lb to test my theory..bad mistake. I placed the lure down in the path of some cruising mulloway and the result was almost immediate...One peeled off and had a huge swipe at my lure but didnt connect.... i them found another one a little further down and did the same thing. He inhaled the lure and powered off! Procaster z, cappy 1500 and 6lb braid were not a good combination as this fish absolutely smoked me and eventually busted off!!!

Went back out with the heavier gear after that and couldnt get one to touch it.

Next day went out with a plan which involved scaling down the leader to 20lb fluro..... bingo after the second cast a mully inhaled the lure and powered off once again...this time i was using 20lb on a graphite GUSA..

This fish was making the drag on the sol 3000 scream! Powered off straight into a snag! i backed off and patiently waited for him to swim out....He luckly did after a couple of minutes and i fianlly won my prize!

98cm @ 8.4kgs.... a few photos then released to swim back with his buddies

Just goes to show that sometimes smaller can be better....

[DazSamFishing]

Mulloway...

One thing for certain is that you must be extremely patient and quiet if you are fishing from a boat/land... I am not too sure if the same techniques will work further down south... But I will provide you my advice on this topic, bare in mind, I only fish for jewies off rockwalls of seaways and in seaways on boats...

If using hardbodies, try using a large killalure in a bright colour and also try a large long shallow diver. As I mentioned I fish for them in a bit of wash (rockwalls) and the majority are caught high in the water column. You may even want to cast large poppers, and I think that the popper technique will give you an experience of a life time.

After plenty of rain I have noticed that plenty of bait fish congregate throughout the seaway and during the night, they can be seen jumping out of the water to avoid being eaten. My recipe for jewies is a full moon, and a large tide after plenty of rain. This means the jewies pay less attention to what they are eating. One thing for sure is that they like to bump the lure... and it pays to pause for a few seconds and then continue to retreive as per normal. If using poppers, make sure the retreive is dead slow, with violent jerks in the white water... although, this technique produces plenty of by catches...

I am sure you know that jews are quite shy fish and require a lot of patience... If this is the case, I always use a SP... The only plastic I will use for jewies is the Snapback Albino 5"... from a boat I will drift the incoming tide, vertically jigging the plastic violently with a 3/4 oz jighead... On a good early morning or arvo... usually in august, it is not uncommon to connect to these fish numerous times in a few hours...

Have a go, and let everyone know how you went!

Here is a pic of one of my best jewies in the middle of the day on a SP, with boats cruising around me... All jewies are different I suppose...!

Daz

[Steve_Monckton]

Good stuff BoLeX, Up north they call it Barra fever, down here it's jew fever and once you have got it, there is no going back. cheers, steve.