Gascoyne Mullas

Had one of the most epic fishings sessions of my life over the long weekend. Shot up to Shark Bay with a couple of mates on Thursday night and fished Friday to Sunday before getting back Monday night.

The fishing overall was good, all of it was done launching from Monkey Mia - plenty of pinks and a few blacks and baldies, but we had to cover a lot of ground to find them. The stand out were the mulloway though.

Friday night we hit a spot south of Monkey and after burleying up for 1/2 hour the mullas came on. Over the next two hours between two boats we got onto fifteen of them, all were around the size in the pics. It was insane. We kept a couple and released the rest. The water we were in was quite shallow, less than 6m, so we figured the release wouldn't have an impact on their health

Water was like this for two of the three days.

The pinkies were hungry, got a load on plastics too.

But this is where all the action was - sorry about the quality of a couple of the pics, bit of blood there in a couple

 

It was well worth the 1,700km round trip


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rigs

Wed, 2009-09-30 10:05

awesome report mate what did you get the mulloway on and what sort of rig?

cheers Ethan

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nice fish mate. love going

Wed, 2009-09-30 10:15

nice fish mate. love going up to shark bay. been up there 3 times and all 3 times weve gotten onto the fish, but as u said travelling is a must.

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Croakers!!

Wed, 2009-09-30 11:13

Dream trip to catch that many mulla's in one session Ben.Still on my list to get one...you lucky bugger.

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Good on ya for only taking a

Wed, 2009-09-30 11:22

Good on ya for only taking a couple. I know the bite there can be epic and not everyone is restained. Having lived there it can be rather upsetting watching people with freezer trailers think it's their duty to take home a truckload and feed the extended family, neighbours, workmates to be "the Man". Well done and may the fishing gods continue to shine on you.

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That's great Ben

Wed, 2009-09-30 16:48

What awesome fishing and fishing conditions. Those are the trips we all dream of.

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great coupla days

Wed, 2009-09-30 18:17

Sounds like a great coupla days.

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Nice fish

Wed, 2009-09-30 19:04

Good on ya for only taking what you can eat. 

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cheers

Wed, 2009-09-30 20:13

thanks guys. it was mad just knowing how long it takes some people to get onto one of these fish, locally anyway, and to find that many in one night was pretty special.

ethan - i had a running ball sinker down to two snelled 4/0s. i intend to put together an article on it for *cough* FWA so there will be a load of info on it in there if you're interested. probably the nov or dec mag.

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Fri, 2009-10-02 14:30

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Top Report and Fantastic Rewards

Fri, 2009-10-02 14:46

What a Buzz!!! Mulloway are such a prize gem of a fish. So many in one hit would spoil all my dreams and asperations LOL.

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