Thread: Real Whitebait!

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

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.