Catching Sea Mullet.

Hi

Sea Mullet on a hook - that would be most likely.

I believe square hooks are the only way - i.e. nets.

Farmboywa
We used to jag them 40 years ago and use them for bait for real fish (Mulloway). I also caught one off the beach at Mallacoota about 10 year ago using blue bait and fishing for Tailor.

teege

No, but I have watched them schooling with envy and thought tiny tiny "mullet" hooks that were in my grandad's kit with bread pressed on to them. And if you get one through the mouth, very gently bring it in.

Used to catch them with a hook about the same length of time ago as Teege and using the same method.
Several large trebles over about a metre of dropper with a heavy sinker on the end.
When they were schooling off the breakwater at Coffs a dozen in 30 mins. was the go.
Smoked sea run mullet, nothing to beat it.
furph

Gents, as jagging fish with oversized trebles is outlawed, we now prefer to use the term 'high speed mullet lure'.....................

Used to do it as a kid off the Urangan pier in Hervey Bay - back when it was a mile long, and ships used to tie off it - and jagging with a 9/0 which had a sinker laced into it was both legal AND dangerous.

I used to jag them with a lure, but jagging is illegal in qld.

Cheers

We catch them at Xmas at Nambucca Heads by simply using smallest hook as possible with bread on it and even easier if you have a float on line to gently hook them as soon as they bite, with hook sitting just below surface of water. Hope thats of some help cheers....

I use a whiting rigg, sinker at the bottom 300mm up first hook on 200mm of line then another 300mm up second hook also on 200mm of line then another 300mm up a swivel use a hook bigger than a gar hook but smaller than a whiting hook depending on the size of the mullet the key ingredient for me is cockles, last weekend me & a mate caught 120 for the day and as TEEGE said good bait for mullaway almost as good as salmon

The ones in SA are easily caught using a whiting rig with hooks about 2 sizes smaller and using cockels or red meat. If off the beach the schools can be held close with some very fine burley. You can usually get a feed in an hour or so.

Steve