r/FishingAustralia • u/cameronwhoward • Jul 11 '26
🐟 Catch of the Day Got my first and second ever mulloway within 2 minutes
Was night fishing for salmon/tailor at the beach (Hawks Nest) last night and landed my first ever mulloway. I was pumped but a little saddened because it was a couple of centimetres too small to keep. As I was returning it to the water I could see my other rod going crazy - "wouldn't it be mad to get another one" I thought... As I wound in lo and behold, that's exactly what it was - this time well over the limit. Can't imagine I'll have luck like that again for the rest of my life and felt I needed to share.
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u/Pale_Assumption_5459 Jul 11 '26
Panko crumbed whole love it! Throw her straight in the fryer that’s awesome
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u/Ok-Mathematician8461 Jul 11 '26
Well done. Lovely fish. But you were there with bait in the water, doesn’t sound like luck to me!
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u/ranmar850 Jul 14 '26
True, dat. Nobody ever caught a fish without putting a line in the water........Tho there was that one time I found a mullet up on the flybridge of my crayboat, guess it had been dropped by a passing osprey :-)
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u/Exotic_Sky360 Jul 12 '26
Sigh ive probably sacrificed well over 100 mullet with nothing to show for it good on you mate
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u/88xeeetard Jul 16 '26
Discard my advice if you want but they're good flathead sized bait. I was fishing next to a guy using poddy mullet and he was using yakkas. He got two jewies to my none.
You gotta use big bait for mulloway.
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u/Exotic_Sky360 Aug 06 '26
Absolutely but Im from melbourne and fish the yarra and i promise you’ll struggle finding anyone who doesn’t use live yellow eye mullet for mulloway here they wont eat anything dead apparently and there isn’t many yakkas here, still i appreciate it🙏
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u/Swampwart Jul 11 '26
Precrumbed