Tight or loose drag

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My mulloway live bait rig is fixed paternoster with like 1.5m leader to the 5/0 circle hook, small teardrop sinker. Baitfeeder reel.
Mulloway has big thick jaw, better use circle hook that you think too big than too small.

Why do you use a bait runner when fishing a paternoster?

Sinker 00 is only to bring the mullet down. It'll be enough for the tiny mullet not to go swimming around, but still light enough for the mulloway to feel any weight.
During calm slack tide at night, mulloways go out to hunt/feed

Interesting. With that rig, how do you fish any current?

And how do you fish anything bigger than a 10cm mullet?

And why not use a running sinker?

I don't reckon mulloway feed at all - they just magically grow

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I don't reckon mulloway feed at all - they just magically grow

Interesting. With that rig, how do you fish any current?

And how do you fish anything bigger than a 10cm mullet?

And why not use a running sinker?

I would pick slack tide and/or spots where there's barely any water movement, like docklands, or river eddies, backwater, etc.
Never live bait a mullet bigger than 15cm, so i have no idea for bigger mullet, lol. It was always 10-15cm mullet.
I'd go out 3-4pm, throw heaps of bread crumbs burley, grab a few 10-15cm mullet. By sunset, i put them for the mulloway.

Running sinker will male the mullet swim around freely too much. I like them stay in the spot, still alive but 'chained', sending distress signal. It's fun watching the rod tip from barely wobbling from the mullet to suddenly doing crazy shake (being chased), then bbbbbzzzztttttt.

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I don't reckon mulloway feed at all - they just magically grow

Interesting. With that rig, how do you fish any current?

And how do you fish anything bigger than a 10cm mullet?

And why not use a running sinker?

I would pick slack tide and/or spots where there's barely any water movement, like docklands, or river eddies, backwater, etc.
Never live bait a mullet bigger than 15cm, so i have no idea for bigger mullet, lol. It was always 10-15cm mullet.
I'd go out 3-4pm, throw heaps of bread crumbs burley, grab a few 10-15cm mullet. By sunset, i put them for the mulloway.

Running sinker will male the mullet swim around freely too much. I like them stay in the spot, still alive but 'chained', sending distress signal. It's fun watching the rod tip from barely wobbling from the mullet to suddenly doing crazy shake (being chased), then bbbbbzzzztttttt.

Interesting stuff - learn something new every day

Small mullet make sense like this.

How do you hook your mullet with this technique?

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Smaller mullet is with the second on the pic. Bigger mullet is with the top pic.