Salting Mulies
Submitted by crasny1 on Mon, 2009-12-14 21:25
Had enough over the weekend of trying to fish with plain old mulies. Got some pool salt and salted them prior to the fish on Sunday.
Remarkable. The bait stayed on much longer and 2 coral trout later thought what the hell.
Has anobody got some input into this and how long do you salt them etc. Did not seem to effect the bite at all when compared aginst fresh non salted mulies!
Cheers
Neels
PS had a great day and will post about this.
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scottbec
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G'day Neels,
I gave salting mulies a try earlier this year. I salted them for 3 weeks in a foam box with a big bag of pool salt - put down an inch of salt, then a layer of mulies and then another layer of salt and repeated 4 or 5 times till the box was full. worked quite well. The mulies dried out quite nice and as you say the fish still had a crack at them.
I cyro-vaced mine into packs of 6 or so as we were travelling north for a few weeks and i didnt have room to fridge them.
Next time I might dry them in salt and then cyro-vac them with a squirt of some type of fish attractant and they should soak that up quite nicely... I hope.
I put up a post a while back but only got a few responses:
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/preserving-bait
I have also heard of a few people just drying their baits out on a mesh rack - but I imagine it would be fun trying to keep the flies away from that.
Good luck with it.
Cheers,
Scott
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my oldies go away each year
my oldies go away each year to shark bay and always salt their prawns they use for bait . seems to work for them and as you mentioned the bait stays on the hook longer. from memory i have seen salted mulies in shops a while ago, some will swear by it
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nev
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Gday Neels
used to be a pro fisherman years back in Shark Bay. I used to do around 40kg at a time for wetlining. Had a tub about the third of a 44 gallon drum filled under half of seawater then mixed in a bag and a half of butchers salt , used a old oar or something as a stirrer. Mix well into a nice salty brine for 10 mins or so then throw in the quality mulies ,(IQF if possible) then leave for 28 to 32 hours... Take out, drain a bit then I used an old Esky to store them in ..Layer of fish then a generous sprinkle of salt and so on.. They are by far the best Mulies you will find!!! They look better than fresh mulies straight out of the water if done right........ Cheers!
crasny1
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Cheers guys
The bites didnt seem to differ and the bait stayed on much longer. Pickers couldnt get it off and I have some "fish attractant gel" I might mix with them. Mini trial. Mrs fished with Normal mulies, me with the salted. Score, some nice flags for her, flags for me and 2 trout. Cant complain about that.
TKU for info
Neels
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if u cant be bothered with
if u cant be bothered with this u can ghost cotton them on yr gangs
i also use small elastic bands also and this works well..one round the mid section and one round the tail