Thread: Fussy/lazy trout

Cocabullies, use them like you would with a kahawai live bait.

Originally Posted by Mathias

Cocabullies, use them like you would with a kahawai live bait.

How do you catch them @Mathias? I've thought they would make great lives for salmon.

Originally Posted by Shearer

How do you catch them @Mathias? I've thought they would make great lives for salmon.

As mentioned, whitebait net or butterfly net. In actual fact bullies are getting harder to find now. Once they populated the stock water races and the likes, but they have suffered badly by water quality in this region.

Originally Posted by Mathias

As mentioned, whitebait net or butterfly net. In actual fact bullies are getting harder to find now. Once they populated the stock water races and the likes, but they have suffered badly by water quality in this region.

We used to live bait for sea run fish at the Selwyn river. You need to give the fish a long time from the take to setting the hook. We had a lot of drops before we figured that out. We also caught bullies in pastoral drains. Was a few years ago now though.