Originally Posted by
nigelr
As a spearfisher for over 40 years, I have observed a fair amount of mulloway behaviour in their own environment.
In my experience there is no way mulloway will swim 10 times their body length per second for sustained periods. They are a fish that relies on ambush rather than pursuit.
And very often they will just sit in an aggregation, or swim aimlessly about at slow speed, en-masse.
I have had the experience of seeing spawning aggregations of around 2 tonne just sitting stationary with the larger fish of 30kg+ laying almost vertical in the water column.
Now if a mug like me has witnessed this, someone who's livelyhood depends of catching fish, and who may well be a 2nd 3rd, or 4th generation commercial fisher, will have in all probability forgotton more about mulloway behaviour than I'll never know.
So Matt, how do you account for the 12 big jew captured as described above, or are you just calling BS?