MULLOWAY MANIA

How To Catch Jewfish On Lures

In direct response to the huge demand for more nitty-gritty info’ about targeting jewies on lures (soft and hard) — especially during daylight hours — Starlo shares a lifetime on learning in this exposé, written for all you jewie nuts (and budding jewie nuts) out there! Learn plenty and increase your strike rate on these challenging fish.

Jewies have a decent-sized mouth and conical, inward-facing teeth to hold and crush lively prey.

Some of the things we know for sure and certain about mulloway (and the saltwater barra they share so many habits with) is that they are active nocturnal feeders with an armoury of sensory equipment ideally suited to feeding in very low light and/or dirty water (these include specially adapted eyes, lateral lines and smell/taste receptors). For a long time, I suspect that this knowledge actually clouded our view of how and where jewies can best be caught. That’s because, while they’re masters when it comes to poor visibility hunting, this information certainly doesn’t mean they only feed at those times. That discovery is very good news for people like myself, who prefer to catch their jewies (and barra!) in daylight hours, on cast-and-retrieved lures.

Catching big mulloway during daylight hours on both soft and hard lures might seem like a dream to some, but it is actually eminently achievable.

Get the whole story, including a look into the future of mulloway, in this long-awaited, species-specific insight by one of Australia’s most enduring and respected fishing writers, Steve “Starlo” Starling.