Q & A with Mullet Man

Q: DEAR MULLET MAN,

I'VE HAD A GUTLOAD OF COLUMBIA CLAD PEAKED CAP WEARING STICKER COVERED BOAT XEROXED YANK IMITATING WANKERS BREAKING OFF THEIR SNAGGED RUBBER LURES WITHOUT ANY ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE THE LURE WITH THE REASONING THAT THEY ARE A LOW COST LOSS. LOOK AT THE SHIT THESE TOSSERS ARE LEAVING BEHIND. I BET IF ASKED IF THEY LITTER WHEN THEY GO FISHING THEY WOULD SAY "NO WAY". THEY WILL FUCK IT UP FOR THE REST OF US WHEN A TURTLE OR BIRD GETS TANGLED UP AND FILMED WITH A RUBBER LURE IN ITS GOB.

WONDER WOBBLER.

A: Dear Wonder Wobbler,

This type of crap also really pisses me right off to the point I lose it big time. Another curse of the new Gen Y angler brigade is they are often environmentally illiterate. The braid is the real problem, and leaving any of this shit around is very irresponsible, but a lot of these dickheads think nothing of just busting off without even using a tackleback, prodder or other lure retriever. Good snags get festooned with crap.

This type of thing pissed me off so much I started to do some enforced angler education. Did you know that you can totally immobilise a 120 kilo dickhead braid buster with only 20 metres of 4 pound Fireline. We tied him to a mooring post at low tide to show him what happens to all the marine life from pricks leaving braid around after busting off lures. He was sweating like a bastard when the tide came in, but there was no way he could bust through the fine braid. We cut him free, put the braid in the bin and sent him off to buy a lure retriever.

For some anglers, it is all about them, and the fact rubber lures are cheap and they just bust them off shows these type of anglers just don't give a shit about the important stuff. You are deadset right, these sorts of dickheads are rooting up the image of recreational fishing and in the future if this continues some green group will want braided lines banned as a part of their overall plan to stop us fishing all together.

A great little lure the Wonder Wobbler. Caught my first lure caught fish on one. Mr Nowak's Wonder Lure company was an iconic Aussie business and if we got one snagged we'd swim for it when I was a kid. Now most of the lures come from China and these smartarse new crews often just bust 'em off without even trying to get them back.

Mullet Man