Poddy Mullet in Sydney Harbour

[Stanleick]

I am keen to use poddy mullet for bait this summer in Sydney but having recently moved to the area I am not sure where and how to catch them in Sydney. Please can someone advise.

[rjc123]

To get the poddies then i would be heading up middle harbour and setting up the little bait traps with a bit of bread and coming back in an hour or so. Yakkas are probably a better option. They are much easier to find. All wharves and structure like the wedding cakes hold them. Just berley up and drop a bait jig down and you'll be good!

[chewie]

You can reliably find poddie mullet at points where storm water drains meet the harbour. Glebe park, rose bay, ruscutters bay, double bay to name a few. Also on the flats at clontarff. The trick is to burly up heavily with bread and catch them in the shallows. If i use a bait trap I put it so it's only an inch below the water so under 1 foot deep. If i see fish in deeper water, I'll use a handline and small pieces of bread. Generally over any of the harbour flats, if you set a burly bread trail floating mullet will turn up sooner or later, often good sized ones too.

[pure spirit]

if your working out of a small boat you might try back from the bridge at roseville

[stevie g]

Narrabeen lakes have never failed me. Turn left off pittwater road and head along the wakehurst parkway. Go into the 1st carpark you see. There is a park there and anywhere along that shore will be all good.