queensland Brisbane river mullet

[pinkey]

Hey i went down to the brissy river this arvo after school.. flicked sp around for a while with no success, (quite windy) so i threw the castnet out to see if i could score some bait. was getting nothing when suddenly found some balistic mullet stuck in my net, dropped one or two but landed two. My two biggest ever at 30cm and 43cm, 1kg of mullet in 1 cast anyway just wondering how big theese blokes get in the brisbane river?.. :woohoo:

and also how the heck do you tell the differance between a sea mullet and a poddy mullet.. because i dont wana take an udersized sea mullet mistaking it for a poddy..

also is it worth having a crack with some bread and a small hook under a float, probly gona try it tomorrow arvo seeing nothing else wants to play..

Also just to let you know some friends of a friend went down to me and flatheads spot the other day and caught a 45cm bream:ohmy: and a 60cm thready, we couldnt belive the bream till we saw pics.. cheers

[obone]

I'm pretty sure that poddy just means immature or juvenile, i.e., young/ small mullet!

Joel

[pcsolutionman]

dont know about the brissy mate but up some of the creeks in pumicestone I have seen some mullet aroun 70-80cm in length. never fished for them but plenty there

Lee

[Schultzy]

Tim,

Joel is right, a poddy mullet is a juvenile sea mullet. Sea mullet peak at about 75cm and 8kg in the wild but anything over 50cm is a quality specimen.

The common species we can legally use for livies under 30cm are flat tailed mullet, gold spot mullet and sand mullet.

Identification is a little difficult to describe so go to the local library and have a look in Ern Grant's guide to fishes for details.

[Dan23]

If you want to catch mullet I once caught a whole bunch of them on a small hook and using fisho (Chicken Guts). I used a berley mix to get them going then they were just hooking themselves. It was weird though I've done the same since several times and never caught another one. You must have to get them in a feeding frenzy. They actually fight pretty hard on light line.

[roobs]

they usually feed on plankton and really small organisms so they are almost impossible to catch in the sea on bread but in estuary and landlocked systems you can get them on quite a few baits. bread is good but so is cheese- we used to catch them to 60cm on bread and cheese dough in clear island waters. i think in the river they would have plenty to eat and wouldn't go for a bait.

[Oztrav]

yeah last time i checked on dps a while ago the only limit for sea mullet was when they were found in fresh waters??? Either way id prob go with schultz suggestion apparently they go for bread fyes if your into that stuff

[MichaelJ]

its awesome fun catchin mullet on bream gear they fight really hard

[werewolf]

Here's a live shark bait I prepared earlier:P

I would guess this is a Sea Mullet from the size... [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/100_1169-1f505344ecb4407ff84cd34fa68b7d7c.jpg

[BIG DAVE 1]

Dude deffs worth a try on the poddies! i usually chase the biguns in the local creeks when they go to breed, the run starts around september and you will get some monsters! the biggest ive ever pulled was 55cm in about 1.5ft of water and my god the action was intense especially on 4lb line. I should probs get my ass into gear and go and see if theres any around. the rain should have cleaned up the river a bit so they might even be on the way in.

[pinkey]

ahah yeah i wana catch one on my rod they went bezerk in my net and when i held them i could feel that they were full of muscle. I tried this arvo using bread under a float with a tiny hook but no luck, would also love to target a few on fly gear..

thanks for the help guys.

[flathead]

had no luck with the bread lol

[Oztrav]

did you berley em up with some bran etc try the full moon i think it was jeff f went out on the full moon during summer and they were jumping into his boat the full moon is this tuesday

or it might of been new moon???