The Mulligan Bomber Mini-Course [Rigging, Retrieving, & More]
- By: Luke Simonds
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- Found In: Product Reviews, Lure Reviews, Mini Course, Lure Rigging
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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Good information
Thanks for the information, can’t wait to receive my bombers
Can you talk more about your tipit? What knot do you use?
Here’s a lesson that explains the advanced leader assembly: https://www.saltstrong.com/fishing-school/advanced-module/knots/
Nice mini course Luke. I learned a lot. Thank you!
Great videos.
Can’t wait for our next trip to give it a try.
Thanks for the tutorial. Ordered my bombers.
Me too, John!
Yeah yeah casts a mile, skips great. But how about that cast accuracy on the tutorial! Lol
What is the difference between these 5″ paddle tails and the original Bomber 5″ paddle tail?
These new ones are under the Mulligan family which means they are designed for optimum casting and skipping performance since they have the dimpled skin and some more overall mass compared to most other similar sized paddletails.
Are you planning on releasing these bombers in the alowife color soon?
The original Mulligan in alowife is my go to lure of choice .. I’m looking forward to throwing me some SS bombers once this water clears up from the storm..I hope you and the team made it through the storm unscathed
I have not been planning to make these bigger lures in that color because it hasn’t been very popular within our membership base. The Lebronze color is very similar and has been getting much better reviews compared to alewife in the other molds. Have you tried this color yet: https://fishstrong.com/products/the-mulligan-bomber-5?variant=45620411433134
Note: The color in the featured pic makes it look much darker than it actually is… it’s actually a light greenish-blue over the same bottom as alewife while also having some silver flake down the middle)?
Luke, Ive always wondered, why are the soft plastics W/the slitted belly,
not hooked W/the hook hidden in the slits?
It makes the lure weedless,
and you still have the hook exposed so to speak.
A professional bass angler actually said in a video,
that was the prefeered way.
Also, on the jigs W/the keepers,
I cut mine off and never had the lure to move or twist.
The slitted belly is for helping get better hooksets when using EWG hooks… and the same reasoning applies to why we don’t have the slit on the top (if the hook point is surrounded by plastic while resting in a slit, it’s much tougher to get a good hookset since the hook point will often have to go through a good amount of lure material first.
Instead, we recommend simply skin hooking the point of the hook on top of the lure when in need of being utlra-weedless… otherwise, just let the hook rest on top of the lure for a still very weedless lure that’ll have great hookup percentages.