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Normally its catch and release unless they are spent with the big ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by ozscott
When I was a young fella we used to head up to Carnarvon and clean up on the "schoolie mulloway" the smaller ones were a bit soapy,the bigger loverley.
Andrew
The salmon run has just started at Albany,will be chasing them too.Catch and release,not really into eating them,may keep one.
Andrew
Lots of rigs tied,ready to battle Mulloway,Salmon in several ways and King George Whiting.
All the gear is ready to throw in the D4,the bait in the bait freezer is ready to transfer to the 80lt Engel fridge/freezer along with refreshments:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
Andrew
Enjoy your trip Andrew, let me know where you catch your King George whiting, they have been elusive to me
off the beach.
This is my go to rig for Mulloway as it is able to be simply moved to suit the size of the bait without re-rigging.
For strip baits like fillets or squid (can use live squid with this rig) I use 50lb Flurocarbon leader - about 1m if you are casting or 1.5 to 2m if you are dropping out of a boat. Running sinker dependent on depth and current. The smaller the better. Any weight when they pick up the bait can spook them.
2 hooks - bottom one 6/0 Mustad circle - top hook 6/0 Suicide or Hooldlum facing the other way just through the line.
This is the neat trick, get a rubber band and pass over the point of the top running hook then wrap around the shank of the hook till it is tight then back over the hook to stop from unwinding. This allows you to run the top hook up and down the line to keep the bait perfectly flat so it won't spin round and round in the current. it will stay there and not run down and bunch up your bait even in the fastest current.
The beauty of the circle hook at the bottom and the hoodlum at the top is the one that picks up the bait and swims off gets the hook in the side of the jaw. The ones that sit there and swallow it get the top hook in the top or bottom of the mouth when you strike.
If you are using a live squid - my preferred bait as it stops the pickers for a long time, is hook the squid with the bottom hook just into the tube where it meets the tentacles. the top hook in the very top of the tube. Mr. squid will swim live like this for hours - sometimes have to wait this long.
Another trick if you are using live yellowtail is get a sharp set of scissors and cut their tail right back. This way when old Mr Mulloway comes to look they swim and make a lot of vibrations but they don't go very fast. Hook them through he top and bottom jaw, that ay they swim with their head into the current.
Nothing like the sounds of that drag just starting to tick slowly before it screams off and you come up tight on a big Jewwie on the beach or out of a boat.
There was some comment about using wire traces. I only do this when the men in the grey coats turn up. Mulloway don't like wire very much - at least where I fish for them.
Couple of Mulloway caught using this rig out of Forster NSW
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Ron.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailslide
Ive caught them at Little Beach.You need to walk the beach to the rocks on the southern end,walk,er,climb them fish toward the cliff face,NORMALLY a safe area would be VERY WARY fishing there when there is an easterly swell,it normally comes from the west so not an issue..
Middleton Beach,close to the Emu Point channel but on the beach side.
Mutton Bird Beach.Below the lookout where the rocks are.Can be VERY BOGGY,you cant drive back towards the rocks very far.
Shelly Beach.
Gull Rock,either the Old Boiler rocks or take the track down to the beach just opposite the Boiler carpark,there is a reef right on the beach.Can be VERY BOGGY and crowded,its not a very big beach.
Yes VERY hard to get from the beach.Have got some thumpers out near the islands;););););)
Andrew
I hooked into some nice mulloway today,hooked 3,lost 3.There is a bridge and a pair of channel markers where I was fishing,they know where to head.The first 2 I lost on the second run.The third fish I didnt get a look in,he was just peeling the line off.
Definately mulloway,I knew to be pacient whilst they played with the live bait,then hold on.A young bloke came over to ask what fish I was trying to catch,telling me I was awesome.I told him,he said his dad thought they were sharks.He ran back to dad saying Mulloway dad:cool::cool::cool:
Will tie some more rigs and try again tommorow arvo.
Andrew
If you're ever in Sydney Andy, there's a deep hole off the Western tip of Balls Head. The Jewies down there are so ravenous, you don't need a special rig to hook them, but you need a lot more talent than I've got to get them in the boat.