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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