Catching Mullet
Submitted by John the Pom on Sun, 2010-04-18 21:43
Went up to Quinn's Rocks on Saturday for a couple of hours with the young'un for the second time.
The first time we went we managed the usual herring and skippy, but on Saturday we landed a couple of decent tarwhine, some nice fat gardies and a couple of herring then it went dead.
The young'un breaks out the berley blob and proceeds to catch a couple of monster mullet that came off at his feet.
We ended up with two, one quite a decent size as well all caught on prawn.
Anyone else caught one on prawn, I didn't think they took prawns?
A good day overall with tarwhine and mullet being new species to tick off, sorry no photos as we forgot the camera.
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Faulkner Family
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well done. with the mullet
well done. with the mullet they can be fussy at times but when they are hungry they will take a range of baits but you need small hooks as their mouths are only small.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Paully
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Good effort
are we talking about the yellow eyed mullet aka Pilch?
John the Pom
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Think so, the bigger one
Think so, the bigger one went for about 40cm
Paully
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I actually think they are quite a nice eating fish
Iv'e caught more of them on prawn than I care to remember, although it was quit a few years ago. There was this spot I found at the Ocean Reef that always seemed to produce big numbers of them all the time and they were always a very good size.
John the Pom
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Nice to eat???? I've had the
Nice to eat????
I've had the ocean mullet before which was average, but I thought the yellow eye were supposed to be weedy tasting??
lurcha
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beautiful in the smoker!
beautiful in the smoker!
carnarvonite
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Better
They go well as crab bait.No where near as good as its cousin the mullet.IMO one would have to be hard up for a feed of fish to eat pilch.
A perfect spot for pilch/yellow eyed mullet would be planted under a passionfruit vine.
troopie87
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about a month ago i was
about a month ago i was heading past quinns dog beach in the tinny and saw a massive school of fish right on the shore line, as we got closer we relised they were mullet so we started casting halco twisties into the school jus trying to jag 1. ended up catching a few big ones with clean hook ups. fun fish to catch, not bad eating i rekon, these wer sea mullet
cudbfishn
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we used to get them in
we used to get them in kalbarri on a treble and sinker if you know what i mean. Used to get to 800mm long. They were really good eating.
cudbfishn
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These were sea mullet.
These were sea mullet.
John the Pom
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Here's a picture of the two
Here's a picture of the two smaller mullet along with some other fish we froze for bait.
What sort of mullet is it?
cudbfishn
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them be yellow eye or pilch.
them be yellow eye or pilch. hence the yellow eye. lol
John the Pom
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I was thinking that, but
I was thinking that, but wanted to make sure.
So the consensus would be that I can use them for crab bait on Friday then?
It's the sea mullet that taste ok in the smoker, I've eaten them before and they were average and very oily, I've got a smoker so might give one a whirl the next time I see them.
trailcraft_tony
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yeah used to catch them all
yeah used to catch them all the time at the old river mouth in mandurah using prawns, have caught quite a few in the swan river using blood worms as well going for bream. I have never had traouble catching them on hooks.