Jigger wrote:
Float, small ball sinker adjust to size of float then swivel then trace then hook.
I find the cheap polystyrene floats with the red/orange top works well as they easy to see and don't tangle to much. Cone shaped jobs.
I normally only use one hook, cuts down on the tangles when the rig gets rolled. Sinker must be far enough from the float so that when it gets hit by white water it causes drag this will prevent the whole rig getting rolled and also keep it out longer as it doesn't get carried along in the white water.
Not the easiest type of fishing but great fun when you get those big stripe mullet in the waves on light tackle. If you sure they there and nothings doing reel in slowly this gets them going.
Sardine is the only bait I've had any decent luck with in the waves . Try not to have it longer than about thirty or forty centimeters.
That above..think tiny piece of sardine skin..on tiny hook..on very light hook snood or flouro better for stiffness and those mullet are extremely lineshy.. My mate, tunes half the time its easier catching the target fish than the livebait! I agree !
Chumming them up is the key, mushed up sardine in the water, breadcrumbs (white cheap loaf, little bit stale is best) and anchovy oil.. Sabikis, never got a mullet to eat on, tried and tried..Little tiny pieces of bread or fish skin/flesh sure..bread flies also work after chumming them up if you are into flyfishing. A big mullet on the fly is almost more fun than catching bigger fish on the mullet itself. Finding a gulley, slipway or some sheltered water rather than some open beach also makes your life easier, chum and wait, they will appear. The movement of a bait slowly away from them normally is what entices them to bite, for that reason most times I wont have a tiny sinker and just use a bigger float to weigh the rig, so I can drift it in slowly, the float moving slowly towards you and away from them draws them in rather than spooks them, any other movement, or visible line spooks them. At worst case when I was not prepared and wanted to put a livebait out, I have caught them chumming them up on my lunch sandwich crusts crumbed up, and then finding some polystyrene flotsam on the rocks and putting polyballs on tiny dryfly hooks, on the tip of the point and reeling ever so slowly towards you enticing them to swipe for the white ball, fired up on breadflake and butter. Never caught anything on that livie that day! But catching the bait is half the fun.
In europe to catch the really big mullet on little inline mepps spinner and little single hook set behind on flouro with trailing worm, is a whole sport unto its own since a guy figured it out and smashed the mullet world record a few times..They must follow something white or flashy that is moving slowly, its a feeding and shoaling response but in mullet it is strong.
