First Mulloway

Its hardly worthy of a post but I am pretty bloody happy with myself.

I got down to Floreat Drain at 7.30 tonight. Not a car or fisherman in sight. Headed down to the beach. It was too dark to read the conditions so just perched myself next to the drain. Fished for 1.5 hours for not even a bite and then caught a 34cm trumpeter. Bummer...but it was the biggest trumpeter I have ever caught. Fished for another hour and then threw my three empties in the bin, packed up the rod holder and told myself one more cast. Boom a 48 cm tailor. Next cast caught a 52cm soapie. A few more bites after that then headed home at 10.30pm a happy man.

I realise it is not really worth a mention; but after hours upon hours of fishing for nought mulloway, I was pretty chuffed.


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 Gotta love the lucky last

Tue, 2013-10-22 01:03

 Gotta love the lucky last cast ey! Good stuff mate, dd you keep the fish or release?

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 Well done, i havent been

Tue, 2013-10-22 07:20

 Well done, i havent been there in ages, might give it a crack one night this week, what was the weed like there?

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Well done.

Tue, 2013-10-22 08:08

 Perhaps this is the start of a good season. Did you corilate the catch with tide time and moon phase? Look forward to your next post.

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Cheers

Tue, 2013-10-22 08:55

Super Peg - first mulloway, never eaten one, so I kept. Dinner tonight!

Petervb - No weed at all. Banks are shallow. Need to be out more than 50 meters to get into some deeper water.

Osprey - Good point. It was 20 minutes shy of high tide and ten minutes before the almost full moon poked its head over the dunes.

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last night

Wed, 2013-10-23 10:12

 Any luck after I left last night pembo? I was the bloke south I of the drain. The weather shaped up prety nicely hey but my mrs was getting too cold so i reluctantly left.

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Nope

Wed, 2013-10-23 11:37

No, not really. We caught two tailor in the mid 40's.

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not nothing

Wed, 2013-10-23 16:18

 Better than a kick in the groin.

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What bait did you catch the

Thu, 2013-10-24 14:14

What bait did you catch the mulla on?

 

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Mulie

Thu, 2013-10-24 22:14

Just a mulie, however recently I have had inclination to fish with sanmar. A great bait that doesn't get decimated by pickers.

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 That's good work mate better

Tue, 2013-10-29 14:41

 That's good work mate better than sitting at home. 

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 stoked for you mate. welcome

Sat, 2014-02-15 20:50

 stoked for you mate. welcome to the club. there not bad on the yew either :-)