we use to catch plenty of them up by the umbilo canal in the old days . we use to fish for them with the green slime that came down the canal ,but on certain times you would get a white slime which was the best for them .the green one you would get mullet shot for shot and the odd milky but when the white slime came the milkys came . the mullet were in the front and the milkys were out deeper at the back ,the problem was getting your float with the slime on out past through the mullet shoals to get to the back where the milkys were without a mullet chowing your slime ,because you would have to drift it out with the current . you could see the milkys out there because their fins and tails would stick out the water as they swam around feeding ,those days there would be hundreds out there .
the hot streams in the bay was another place in the bay where you could get them on bread but they were harder to get there .
then there was south pier in the 80s when on an incoming tide you would see hundreds of them coming into harbour ,shoal after shoal , in those days the guys use to make big jiggers 2 sometimes 3 10 os back to back with a tear drop sinker attached to the bottom of the hooks .those days the pier would be littered with them as the guys ran up and down the pier jigging them as each shoal came through .this was all done with kps so the fight was unbevileable and the guys would get fish up to 10kg and bigger .
the shoals still come into the harbour but not like before , the last i caught them was off my paddle ski ,on centre bank ,where the small canal cuts through the centre bank from maydon side to container wharf side(you could see it at low tide only) dont know if its there anymore ,but if you sat there either on a pushing tide or near the end of an outgoing tide they would gather around the entrance of the canal near the drop off and if you are quiet you could catch them on a float with bread.
