The Mulligan Bomber Mini-Course [Rigging, Retrieving, & More]
- By: Luke Simonds
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- Found In: Lure Reviews, Lure Rigging, Mini Course, Product Reviews
This mini-course will show you how to consistently catch quality redfish, seatrout, and snook with the Mulligan Bomber.
This lure is our farthest casting and best skipping soft plastic, and its underwater action triggers strikes with a variety of retrieve styles so we’re sure that you’re going to love using the lure.
Here are the topics this mini-course covers:
- How To Rig
- How To Retrieve
- Best Equipment To Use
- How To Cast
- How To Store
- When Not To Use This Lure
How To Rig The Mulligan Bomber
Hoss Helix Weighted Hooks (4/0 Size Is Best)
Hoss Round Eye Jighead (4/0 Sized Hooks)
How To Retrieve The Mulligan Bomber
Best Equipment
Ideal Equipment
- Rod: Slot Machine Custom Rod
- Reel: Daiwa BG MQ 2500
- Line: 10lb J-Braid 8 Grand
- Leader: 20 lb Ande Monofilament (with 30 lb bite tippet if in snook territory)
- Scent: Dr. Juice Saltwater Slam Exclusive Scent
How To Cast
How To Store
When To NOT Use This Lure
The Mulligan 5″ Bomber is best when the predator fish you’re targeting are focused on baitfish in the 4.5 to 7 inch range. And it’s big tail was set so that it can put off some pulses in the water to help fish more easily find it.
So the situations in which you do not want to use this lure is when the primary food source is very small and if the water is very calm to the point where even the pulse from a paddletail lure can spook off fish.
Our favorite seasons for this lure are (1) Fall and (2) Summer, but it can certainly work across all seasons as long as the conditions are more similar to what it was designed for as explained above.
Conclusion
By following the directions shown above, you’ll undoubtedly be catching some great fish with these great lures.
Make sure to take advantage of how far these bombers cast as well as how well they skip up underneath docks and trees to zones where very few fishermen can target.
And if the baitfish in that area that you’re fishing are all small, that’s when you’ll need to consider switching to a smaller profile lure like The 2.0 or the 4″ Mulligan.
Please leave a comment below if you have any questions about any of these lessons.
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Another great tutorial Luke.
Great info and presentation
Bombers are on the way, the retrieval video was very helpful, can’t wait to hit the water and test them out, thank you for the great tackle and helpful information, tight lines!!!!!
You’re going to enjoy these new lures… I just caught my biggest trout in the past few years on it this morning: https://community.saltstrong.com/post/146064
Thanks as always for providing this Bomber-specific info!
It was very useful and timely — my Mulligan Bombers along with my entire order should be arriving here shortly.
Glad to see that you have some of these new lures coming your way!
Thanks for providing this Bomber-specific info! Very helpful and timely — my Mulligan Bombers should be here shortly.
Glad to see that you enjoyed these lessons!
My bombers are on the way, can’t wait to try them, wife is not going to be happy about the money I spend but the red fish are worth it lol
Haha!!!
Thanks Luke! Great tutorial as usual and I will attempt to apply the lessons learned as soon as I get them!
I hope you enjoy these new lures as much as I have… they should be even better as we get into the full Fall patterns.
Great run down on all the subjects for the mulligan bomber. Looking forward to getting on the water. I am surprised you didn’t use the football jighead.
Thanks for making time to post the nice comment Scott! I most often use bigger paddletails like this up on the flats targeting bigger redfish, trout, and snook that are feeding on mullet, so I almost always am using the weighted hooks.
But if I was to fish tight to deep structure like I do with the Prawn USA lures, I’d definitely rig them on a weedless football jighead.
Great info on how to rig and use any size paddle tails. Thanks!
Thanks for making time to post the nice comment Jerry!
I really appreciate all the info on the new lure I learned a lot y’all are appreciated so very much by me
Thanks for making time to post the nice comment Michael!
Great video and rigging information on the five (5) inch Bomber and the 90 degree twist of the lure when putting it on the jig head makes perfect sense …. I also have some interesting information that you can pass along to the club if you like about the rigging of the hoss helix hook and I use it very often; I carry with me bullet weights when I fish just for this, the weight goes in the main leader before you tie on you hook and I usually will start off using my small worth 32oz bullet weight which is the smallest that you most likely find and then if need be you can work your way up to larger or smaller weight which ever you prefer…. Just adds little extra weight for better fishing experience…. Try it sometime you’ll like it …. !
Thanks for sharing the helpful intel Thomas!
That’s really interesting Thomas. I’m going to try that. Gets you lure down deep while keeping it weedless