Mullet on Plastics!

breamdude · #1 12-04-2003, 04:03 AM

On a recent spin session i was wading &
flicking around 2" grubs.
Whilst checking the action of my plastic at my
feet, two mullet of around 45-55cm came racing
after it. I **** myself and nearly fell in,
ripping the lure out of the water only to make
a huge splash and scare away the mullet.
I know there has been alot of discussion about catching
these fish on plastics but was anyone had any
real success?
In order to choose successful lures for these fish
we must first know what they eat! I have been told they are impossible to catch. Well then, what the hell
are they doing in our estauries in such numbers? -They
must feed on something...

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks, Mitchell.

mike_mad_fisho · #2 12-04-2003, 04:26 AM

gday
yeah i am wondering the same qusteion cause everytime i go out fishing there is always mullet around and they r supposed to be quite good fighters, and why is it that the jump out of the water ??.
michael

flathead_fred · #3 12-04-2003, 04:45 AM

mullet are primarily benthic feeders (or bottom fedders) and are used for cleaning the bottom of aquaculture ponds quite a bit. but they will come to the surface if burleighed up with bread and tuna oil and a plastic thrown in their could do the trick. however they do eat small shrimps, worms, small yabbies, and algae. i think its more their inquisitiveness that has them chasing the plastics but you can give it a shot.
seya guys

bparker · #4 12-04-2003, 05:16 AM

I've just come back from a short session and managed to pin a four-inch yellow eye mullet on a #2 Squidgie!!

blackwater · #5 12-04-2003, 06:24 AM

Breamdude,
I'm guessing that the mullet you are talking about are the big sea mullet. The reason there are so many of them is that they really only feed by vacuuming the slime, mud and silt. It is very rare for them to be caught on baits.

The yellow eye mullet are a completely different fish in that they will hit a lure without hesitating a lot of the time. They are also caught easily on bread and dough baits.

SWANK-E · #6 12-04-2003, 07:03 AM

nice avatar blackwater, your first bream-related avatar, keep it coming!

Grant · #7 12-04-2003, 07:37 AM

The Collie and Capel rivers are full of mullet. The problem is hooking them up. Fellow bream spinner Hayden landed a 38cm mullet from the Capel(On a amber fatgrub think) and I had a awesome experience in the Collie where some 50-60cm sea bream were crashing the baby prawns on the shore of the bank so I tried all the regular softies and didnt get a hit until avocado squidgy cut down to just fit on a 1/32 jighead and had one nice run, then a five minut tug of war with a mullet that busted me off when got a impatient and tightended my drag up. It was by far the best fight on my bream rod but I only had theonesquiddgy lent from a mate. Sorry no photos

Grant

and another thing i did was cast 4-5 metres away from where they were heading and gave it small hops when the school went over it

geoff_abrams · #8 12-04-2003, 08:56 AM

me and daniel_folley went to a local spot for a spin and he got a 45cm mullet on a 2 motoroil atomic , you can catch mullet on plastics good fight too

scott · #9 13-04-2003, 08:05 AM

yer during the comp at walpole, ian bailey and myself were up the deep. ild conservatively say there were a couple of thousand mullet up there. they were everywhere!!

hooked onto one on a muscadine slider and sheeeessss it pulled like a train..

as shore based affordable sportfish'n goes giant herring, 6kg buff bream and big sea mullet would all have to be up there on the hardest pulling list