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Squaretail mullet (Liza vaigiensis)

Some photos of squaretail mullet caught on tamban jig at pasir ris

Hi agitato, welcome to HLF and thanks for the photo contribution. These mullets are particularly interesting, I had ever caught them using small shrimps as opposed to the more commonly used bread.

Hi Peace,

What happened was, I had a tub of bread mixed with banana. I was sitting quite close to the water and a sudden wave splashed up and I dropped the tub.
Subsequently, the contents were floating outwards and in came a couple of these guys, ranging from 3 to 6 inchers grabbing the bread.

I got hold of a tamban jig, laced it with bits of dead prawn and I started jigging around the area. Plucked out two within a few minutes. One 6 inch and another abt 5 inch.

Ah, so you unintentionally berly attracted the attention of the mullets, they usually let their guard down when they're invoked into a feeding frenzy. Good catch there.

LOL yep! most definitely gonna try it again some time in the future.

Any idea how big these mullets can get?

Hmm, I'm not quite sure about this particular species, but I've seen mullets 1-2kg swimming in a school. I reckon they're even more smart and cautious when approaching line and hooks.