Big Sandvlei Mullet
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I am by no means gonna give you tips on Sandvlei mullet as I have no idea how it looks down there but have a look at the below I posted on targeting the grey mullets over in Spain earlier this year...
http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=99685&forum_id=1&highlight=spain+mullet
http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=99685&forum_id=1&highlight=spain+mullet
Arlu Vorster
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Halo Wolf
We used to catch them on a small hook with float, what we did is to put the sardine head above the float, then a small piece of sardine on the hook. Pull it slowly through the water, the sardine head will provide as locking the fish and when it comes it will grab the small piece sardine on the hook. Fish on! And they do give a good fight
We used to catch them on a small hook with float, what we did is to put the sardine head above the float, then a small piece of sardine on the hook. Pull it slowly through the water, the sardine head will provide as locking the fish and when it comes it will grab the small piece sardine on the hook. Fish on! And they do give a good fight
Dr halibut hoffman
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How did I miss that cool write-up fishpaste, thanks for posting that!
Floating bread crust works on those sandvlei mullet or little very thin sardine bait I've also seen used by the locals. I used to catch them with little bread dough balls too. The bread crust you pinch the bottom half and take the hook bend in and around cleanly in the pinched section so the crust floats. Chum them up with little dough balls (size of a BB pellet) or bits of floating crust and leave your hooked crust floating amongst them. With the dough, once they are feeding on your chum balls cast out 3m or so(as far as you can) with a just small ball on the hook point and retrieve ever so slowly and they will jump on, key is the slow retrieve to keep it moving away from them which they cannot resist. The smaller ones like to hang around the mouth and the bigger ones are in the main body, around the island and caravan park channel and top canals. Have a can of koo mielies and a light rod with for the carp and a light spinning rod with a small plug handy for the leeries, good times to be had. I don't think livebaits are allowed anymore but topwater is boss I've learn't, me and a few mates used to do it as a regular jol. Seen lots of razor shad in the vlei in the past, used to nail the tails off my plastics while throwing for leeries so that could explain the one guys bite off. Also the local subsistance guys get a lot of those big springers off the island on the SE corner, you should go and sit with them how they do it and clean some rubbish up as it was always a mess haha.
And although I have eaten some of those big mullet out there in the past and they were tasty, I would not recommend it with the heavy metal contamination in those waters.
On a last note another thing to try would be what they do in UK with a small spinner and some type of worm on a tiny long shank single on thin wire behind. The flashing spinner gets them to swim behind as they do and then the see the worm, chomp their way up and hook themselves. Apparently..
Floating bread crust works on those sandvlei mullet or little very thin sardine bait I've also seen used by the locals. I used to catch them with little bread dough balls too. The bread crust you pinch the bottom half and take the hook bend in and around cleanly in the pinched section so the crust floats. Chum them up with little dough balls (size of a BB pellet) or bits of floating crust and leave your hooked crust floating amongst them. With the dough, once they are feeding on your chum balls cast out 3m or so(as far as you can) with a just small ball on the hook point and retrieve ever so slowly and they will jump on, key is the slow retrieve to keep it moving away from them which they cannot resist. The smaller ones like to hang around the mouth and the bigger ones are in the main body, around the island and caravan park channel and top canals. Have a can of koo mielies and a light rod with for the carp and a light spinning rod with a small plug handy for the leeries, good times to be had. I don't think livebaits are allowed anymore but topwater is boss I've learn't, me and a few mates used to do it as a regular jol. Seen lots of razor shad in the vlei in the past, used to nail the tails off my plastics while throwing for leeries so that could explain the one guys bite off. Also the local subsistance guys get a lot of those big springers off the island on the SE corner, you should go and sit with them how they do it and clean some rubbish up as it was always a mess haha.
And although I have eaten some of those big mullet out there in the past and they were tasty, I would not recommend it with the heavy metal contamination in those waters.
On a last note another thing to try would be what they do in UK with a small spinner and some type of worm on a tiny long shank single on thin wire behind. The flashing spinner gets them to swim behind as they do and then the see the worm, chomp their way up and hook themselves. Apparently..
Dr halibut hoffman wrote:
Really enjoyed writing that one up as I was shocked with the kolstert distribution...Next time in Spain I will target the kolstert!
Regarding the mullet...wondering if those anchovy/sardine oil would work if you chum with that and bread...?
Thanks!
Really enjoyed writing that one up as I was shocked with the kolstert distribution...Next time in Spain I will target the kolstert!
Regarding the mullet...wondering if those anchovy/sardine oil would work if you chum with that and bread...?
Very interesting to read this thread about the mullet in Sandvlei. I lived right next to Sandvlei and as a kid we caught mullet by the hundreds. Bread pinched on the hook described in one of the threads works well and also some dough. We sometimes used a float and depending on the wind etc a driftline also produced good results. We hardly ever used any other bait. I remember one day myself and my cousin "moering" each other because he got hungry and started eating my bread that I had bought for bait, needless to say I gave him a fat lip for that. We used very light line and a small hook we used to call a "sluk hoekie".