Mullett advice.!!!! Help wanted

[Mustang38]

So I have been holidaying in Merrimbula and been trying to catch sand whiting on surface popper, but that's another story. The most frustrating part is I have got mullett jumping in the hundreds all round me and I don't know how to catch them. Does anyone know how to catch mullett when their jumping all round. It is really frustrating their must be a way to catch them. They are litereally jumping in front of me.
Thanks in advance

[DougieK]

breadcrumb and tuna oil berley

Tiny bits of chicken soaked in tuna oil on size 14 mosquite hooks.

[Mustang38]

Awesome thanks mate. Is that floating or with sinker. All fish are up at surface.

[purple5ive]

try a surface walker type lure, atomic k9 or something similar.
for the sand whiting try near the airport in the sand flats there

[Mustang38]

Spent two hours today doing just that. Got only one whiting with this lure. But the millett jumping every where

[4liters]

If they're jumping there might be something spooking them, in which case they may not be interested in taking a bait or lure.

[Basti]

Try a 2inch zman grub smothered in s factor rolled past their face. Mullet like a constant retrieve on the surface walkers too. Just keep going till they hook up

[Mustang38]

I found this online
Leaping to avoid predators usually involves more than one fish jumping simultaneously, retaining an upright posture and entering the water cleanly.

The second type of leaping involves a single fish that does a slower, shorter leap, often flipping onto its side or even onto its back. They may also roll at the surface or move with their head above the water.
The research of Hoese (1985) suggests that Sea Mullet use this second category of movements to fill the pharyngobranchial organ (an area at the back of the throat) with air.

The trapped air is believed to allow the fish to remain active in water of low oxygen concentration for about five minutes.

Several interesting lines of evidence support this theory. The number of jumps is correlated with the concentration of oxygen in the water. The less oxygen, the more jumps.

Secondly, Sea Mullet feed during the day often in bottom sediments that have low oxygen concentrations. Jumping occurs much more commonly during the day. Sea Mullet rarely jump at night

- See more at: http://australianmuseum.net.au/why-do-m ... OeL37.dpuf

So the challenge goes on.

[Bar002811]

A bread and fishy berley will do the trick also they are probably feeding or have found food a weightless rig or float rig with pippis will do the trick on a fast tapped rod cheers bar

[Scraglor]

I listen to a NSW fishing show podcast, and have heard them mention a few times that when the mullet are jumping they are almost impossible to catch, and very frustrating.

Having said that, if I was going to give them a crack I would do what Dougie suggested, berley them up and use the smallest hook you can find with a bit of chicken and tuna oil. Ive noticed with the big mullet down here that you have to keep winding and swing them in, in one smoothe motion, or they just drop off the line, for some reason.

edit: as Bar said, pippy works too, I got one about 35-40cm yesterday on pippy.