Mulloway on lure in the Port River

While I have only targetted mulloway on lures a few times in the port river with success I would like to share with you what I have learnt about the species and how I have had my success.

Firstly I will go into a bit of information about the mulloway, that may suprise people. The mulloway is found not only from shark bay, Western Australia right along the southern coast right back up to the north of briasbane in Queensland, but they also frequent around Africa and Madagascar. They are found in many estarine systems, ocean beaches and gulf and offshore reefs.

The mulloway are oppurtunistic feeders, and feed on a variety of fish, molluscs and crustaceans. Obviously the size of there prey varies on the size of them. This should tell you something when chasing mulloway with lures, use the size to what you are targetting. Remember though when fishing for mullway in the port river the legal size limit is 75 cm from tip to tip.

Now like bream I have caught mulloway on lots of different lures which have suprised me but fishing always does. Lures I usually use while targetting them are minnows of about 4" in a variety of colors, also the 4" turtleback worm, berkley gulp is my favourite and one that always seems to get a fish. These will be taken by most sized mulloway fished rather slowly bounced along the bottom of deep holes throughout the port river system. I often target them using light tackle consisting of a Daiwa Tierre 2000 spooled with 8lb YGK nitlon braid with a 10lb YGK Nitlon leader, which straddles onto a Wilson Live fibre Texallium 4kg spin stick. Some people will be thinking why so light?? But Im in it for the sport, I am chasing the feeling of having a big mulloway trying to find freedom and peeling off line. Alot of people think that you wouldnt land a legal mulloway on this kind of gear, but it has been done before. I would also just see it as a personal fishing achievment, as I take my fiishing rather seriously, Im not one to lob a cockle over the side of the boat.

Well hopefully that gives you a bit of insight into how to catch a mulloway on lure and you can join me in the endeavour to land a mulloway on lure. And please feel free to let me know how you go!

Leethal

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Bream fishing in the Port River, SA.

On this blog I'm posting on how to target some of the most highly sought after fish in Australia's estuarine systems, the Black bream, but specifically on lures and in the port river in South Australia.


To target black bream in the Port River, South Australia is best by boat especially while targeting this species with lure. They are found through every stretch of the river from end to end usually schooling in various spots. For land based anglers it is quite difficult to fish a lot of spots around the river as there is very little spots you are legally allowed to enter and fish from, as many wharfs are controlled by the government and are not open to public for security reasons, and there is a lot of river covered with mangroves for metres and metres. A lot of these spots are accessible from the water while keeping within the river's regulations and offer some really good fish to be caught.

A lot of anglers that chase bream in the port river use a range of lures, from soft plastic to hard, from sizes from 30mm up to 100mm. There are many favourites amongst anglers that regularly score them legal length bream that are made by a range of different lure making company's such as ecogear, zipbaits, jackall bros. berkley and more.

To choose what lure to use on the day can often be a hard one so it is good to carry a variety with you, as one day a lure will work and the next day it wont even get a sniff. Favored colors of lures while bream fishing in the port river would be greens and natural colors that replicate bait fish and food which are often targeted by bream. But bream are a strange fish to understand as some times they will take something totally different to what you think would work, like a lot of the gulp range from Berkley, with there weird and wonderful colors that quite often get slammed by bream and occasionally the school mulloway.

Well that is all for this blog, with just a sniff of insight onto luring the black bream in the port river. Any questions, feel free to ask away, and stay tuned for the next blog on fishing for mulloway in the port river.