Thread: Koura trap

Originally Posted by BRADS

These creeks here are full of them

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What area @BRADS?
have taken the sprogs for a few walks trying to find them but had no luck yet!
use to love catching and eating them as a young fella and want the kids to experience it aswel

We have them on my parents farm at Mt Somers in moderate numbers so assume will be right through Canterbury and probably up Arthur's. Caught them as a kid. Were in some creeks and not others. Seemed to prefer the ones that ran from clearer, strong springs with good vegetation cover on the banks

I use the same traps but never have that much luck because of eels trashing them on the coast.

You are allowed 50 per person on the coast as well. Not off limits.
One of my favorite feeds if I ever catch enough.

Biggest ones I have ever seen were at Waitati range near Dunedin.

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Looking at that bathfull is triggering a gut response.. What do you recommend for bait... Meat or fish?

I am a hunter, I hunt without apology or guilt...

I use rabbit. Some meat and guts in the bait bag.

Hmmm haven't been looking for them in years. Might have to see if there are any in the creeks on the island, there sure are some good eels

man theres nothing that size in the creeks where i live. all finger size

We catch a few for a feed.

Just missing the cocktail Dundee

Man the world has evolved. I caught them by the bucket load with a hunk of liver tied on a string and weighted down with a bolt from out of the old man's shed when I was a young fellah in Tokoroa. Just wait till they get to feeding, pull them up to the surface slowly and grab the buggers. They are bloody yum and that bath load has just got my gastric juices gurgling.