question on e shed
Submitted by mulloway_hunter on Thu, 2011-05-19 12:50
to thoes that have caught mulloway every one i'v herd of being caught down there fights the same way as a sting ray. no head shakes,runs up and down the warf and feels like there sitting on the floor. even one guy we were talking to was about to cut his line and a min later he had a nice 13 kg mully on the jetty. just chasing any info cheers
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Spence
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Never had a mulloway not
Never had a mulloway not have bone rattling headshakes. Though last one i caught, halfway through the battle didn't headshake and for the first time i knew what people meant by feeling like a ray. Still it would headshake every 2mins or so. Its instintive to throw the hooks on first hook up (headshakes).
They are a fish, and don't 'sit on the floor', they are always moving. Usually side to side rather they away with mulloway.
No headshakes from first hook up, sucking to the floor. I think you might be trying to tussle with a ray there mate. One of those big ugly black round rays at a guess with the sucking.
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Spence
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Furthermore, rays seemingly
Furthermore, rays seemingly never give up. Mulla's give up, few big runs then they are spent. They clean fight, just have to be patient on the drag and he's yours.
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mulloway_hunter
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yea thats wat i thaught when
yea thats wat i thaught when that guy hooked up because he was really reeefing it in eh and he ended up pullin up a mully eh
crasny1
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If no headshakes is the case
And I am with Spence, the dozen or so I have caught have always shook the hell out of the rod, but fish respond to the angle of attack of the line. In a boat if you want to keep the fish from jumping you drop the angle on the line, some fish dive instead of jump if you keep the rod tip high.
I may postulate that because E shed is up high the angle may actually cause the Mulla to dive and play a different game to the way they behave from the beaches. I dont know, just a theory that might account for it.
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dhuking
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that was mine.
was headshakin,but not very much.
mulloway_hunter
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yea haha it was you eh. i
yea haha it was you eh. i hooked up last night and got busted off eh hell depressing proberly a bit bigger than yours and no one was around eh for some reason.
grantarctic1
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Agree with the angle
I have got a few from shore and a few from a boat in the sound. The ones from the boat had me guessing what the were until i saw them.
Fighting them straight up and down from the boat they didnt seem to head shake very much .
mulloway_hunter
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yea that could account for a
yea that could account for a lot because i havent hooked alot of mullys but they do head shake more if your on a beach and you can kinda tell the diffrence betreen them and a eagal ray but when you feel head shakes you do get exicted :D
original teenage
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a couple that i got both
a couple that i got both gave a killer fight and violent head shakes :)
Zikoux
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I had no headshake. I though
I had no headshake. I though it was a ray but mulla will run a bit and u can reel few meters. the second run is normally the longest. Afterwards it get tired quickly mate unlike ray still fight a bit
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falttymatty
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mine had heaps of headshakes
mine had heaps of headshakes but was in after about 5 mins i knew what it was straight away.
And i wasnt letting it go no where lol i gave it no chance 50lb braid easy mine was about 15kg and was 1.21 metres.b But i have seen one fight like a ray so never know.
to fish or not to fish is that even an option?