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
Have you or do you eat the cucumber fish cucumber fish chris.?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
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.
And the start of the sea run trout ;) . I have herd of people eating cucumber fish , interested to find out if they any good personally I hate cucumber so they would taste like arse .Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
Ha Ha I like cucumber but not in a fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munsey
They have a strong smell. Good surfcasting bait.
The kokapu would be the best eating bait depending on what river it's come out of IMO.
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 ;)
Just sneak off and when you get back burst in the door holding out a pound of bait and yell happy birthday baby !:D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Munsey
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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?
To me nope. Smelt are smaller and dont have the color like a enanga.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
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[/QUOTE]
They do that here to Toby ,theres nothing wrong with them.Think they have a better flavor personally.They're sold here as Whitebait(Paeroa) .They make good trout bait too.
Found the bigger stuff runs in the top 2' of water & the good stuff(fine bait) runs on the bottom.I pick them up with my Hasst sock where the scoop netters only get the bigger bait.
Inunga is a whitebait as well. Grows to around 10cm if left to grow. Smelt or cucumber fish is no relation. I know people eat the cucumber/smelt but I have no idea how.
Tried eating a kokapu when I was a kid. It was around 3 lbs and iirc it tasted ok. Had a gazillion bones.
Only fresh water fish I like or try to catch are eels and koura. Searun trout are pretty good as well.
Yea. Its the most common species in nz .
Part of the galaxid family? Its nearest cousin is the one that climes up the side of your bucket. Forget the name starts with h i think?
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Kokapu climb waterfalls etc and inunga dont or at least thats how I understand it.
That will be the one then
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I hope there is a feed around at the start of our season. I am home for the first week of it, at this stage. If I was there now, I would could go raid all the illegal nets before DOC find them:D
Talked to a knowledgable Maori lady toward the end of last season ans she said to use a bit of chilli with them. aparently it enhances the flavour and gets rid of the cucumber smell???:thumbsup:
I've seen cucumber fish in the raikaia pouring up the edges for days on end , about a meter wide and deep . Fishing for sea runs it would seem impossible to catch a trout with that much bait about , but you can, fuck knows how ! :wtfsmilie:
I talked to a whitebaiter last year about the cucumber smell on late season bait. If you use abit of cilli powder with them they taste better and it helps to remove the smell.
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Originally Posted by nelpop
Late season cucumber smell on bait?:huh: Bro, you need to stop covering the bucket with your old undies.:)
As R93 said,Kokapu climb water falls no problems. They will find a suitable pool after climbing and grow,very quiet at times and will let you pick them up if in a small shallow pool.
They climb up a very high waterfall here and into a dam from where we get our water from. We have actually had the wee buggers come down through our water lines and out of the tap lol.
Yip,white bait on tap.
We have always preferred the bigger Kokapu bait as they take less to hit the pound mark.Up here they seem to show more near the later part of the season.
Out with the wishfull thinkers,in with the bucket climbers .
The Whitebait maybe starting to move now ,kahawai have come inshore & that's normally chasing the Whitebait this time of year.
Might be the rain & the fresh down the rivers this week has got them started.
Got 1pt this morning
Geeezeee Toby I check the courier every morning and get the same answer "nope"Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Geeezeee Toby I check the courier every morning and get the same answer "nope"Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Hahaha. Come down and I'll get you some
I'll be there at 5 am in the morning that ok M. M m mm. M. M. M mm m m nope that's a negative
But thanks for the offer
Its whitebait for breaky :P
Hope your eggs are rotten
Sunday week I hope to get a scoff. Weather looking good as well.
