Just reading the ever informative "Te Puke Times" and come across this fine speciman.
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Just reading the ever informative "Te Puke Times" and come across this fine speciman.
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Grew up calling them mountain trout on the coast. Used to catch heaps as a kid in most tannin creeks around the place. They get heaps bigger than that one pictured.
I think these are the same breed Gibo ,could be wrong, sort of cucumber smell to them .
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Thems be late season whitebait Chris :thumbsup:
friggin big fritters comin up
Kokapu are whitebait. They are a strong running bait and i think the largest bait. Those are cucumber fish Chris. If you are catching them it usually means an end to the run for the season.
Iv been invited to fish a good Stand on the mokinui for a week :thumbsup: , been in the pipeline for a while , been chomping to go , just got the dates txt last night ! Fucking mrs 40 th birthday smack bang in the middle of it :XD: this may take some cunning to get around this one ;)
Personally never tried a kokopu.
To be honest never heard of them.
R93 i take it the prep is a bit more than mix with egg and make patty?
More like fillet and cook???
There you go white bait is bigger girls:P
Call them smelt here, your cucumber fish. Dont blame you for that name though.
Walking the river talking to old guys one guy was throwing the whitebait back and keeping the smelt. Silly old fart. His logic was theres more to a smelt
Is smelt an enunga?? If thats how its smelt or spelt?