The new season starts on the east coast tomorrow, who's all going out?
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The new season starts on the east coast tomorrow, who's all going out?
Something i haven't done yet in any of my trips over there, and really want to
Hopefully there is some left by end Sept.
Yeah the season on the east coast runs from the 1st Sep through until the end of October, what part of the country are you visiting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharki
I still remember the picture that the last time I saw your cooked white baits. It seemed locals do `t really like Chives right? In my home town we usually will cook fresh water shrimps which is small like white baits in the way like yours with Chives.
I don't know of anyone who uses chives when cooking whitebait, having said that you Chinese people sure know how to cook a good feed so I would be willing to try your recipes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Rabbit
I never tried this before with white baits, so I do `t know if using chives is a good idea since you people has doing it for so many years. Just a thought because I think fresh water shrimps and white baits are similar then maybe the same principle could apply to both. I like cooking, so always has some ideas. I think in the weekend, near any Asian supermarket there should be someone selling their home grown chives, at least in Christchurch is.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
However your approach to catch white baits I should use it in China to catch fresh water shrimps, particularly in the mountain streams and rivers. I should make one since the counting days left in here before go back to NZ, and cold fresh water shrimp now is fat and tasty. Good luck for your whitebaiting and I am looking forward to your...:)
Not a bad opening day, 4kg
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That’s awesome, I’ll have to fire upQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
Yeah Maca I got to the mouth at low tide and had to go out front because there was about 60 people there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
I did the first 4 hours of incoming tide then called it a day.
I had the wetsuit on and scooping in the mouth, got some pretty good sholes.
I have fresh eggs......Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
chives go in scrambled eggs.........see no reason why not.
Ha ha, I just had a big feed and shit they were nice (I made a pig of myself).Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
The big bag in the photo went to the farmer who lets me shoot on his property, he is a top bloke and it was the least I could do.
Well done! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
Thanks mateQuote:
Originally Posted by Black Rabbit
That’s a great start there were more people than whitebait at the Waimakariri today my mate only caught 4 individual bait in 3 hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
Conditions were great today I feel for your mate, we have all had our share of days like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr300WSM
I’m taking the boy out tomorrow afternoon so I hope things improve down thereQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
No whitebaiting for me this year , probably not a bad thing seeing how much of a hammering the rivers have had here over the last year
Bloke I got 3 months over there, and 1 job interview, 7th time over in 9 yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
I probably should move over
So I'm gonna do my best to fish /hunt as much as I can of SI
Ms is getting 7 days in NI
Smarter than me. I got the same exact number but persevered for an extra hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr300WSM
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1.5 kg for me on the Clutha yesterday great to be back into it.
Be nice to live near the coast and watch the bait swim into yr net.
Yip tell me about it I couldn't get any further from the coast if I tried
I’d swap living by the coast whitebaiting for your fallow bucks any day of the week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Padox
Took the boy out he caught 204 grams I caught 101 grams if this keeps up I’m going to start fishing in front of him. Cooked up some bacon sandwiches for dinner good to be out there.
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Nice photos of the waimak and my breakfast.
Enjoy yr feed off whitebait yum.
I dunno the 10yrs looking after the herd and a 4wks a year spent walking and behind the glass is kinda hard work
Yeah, plenty of jobs look amazing from the outside, but living it day in day out takes the wow away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Padox
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I take more pleasure now days putting other ppl especially kids onto deer now more than pulling the trigger myself
1.2 kg's this morning scooping in the surf, back at the carpark by 7am and then dropped into work for an hour.
Will have a tasty feed tonight
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You at the Waitak?few wee feeds there,well done.
Thanks @Trout, yep Waitaki mouth, only 2 of us there this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
About 40yrs ago 3 of us were surfcasting opposite the south car park this time of the year.About 50 people way down at the mouth whitebaiting.We got 4 salmon each in about a hour at most.Salmon about 12 to 14 lb feeding in the area.Had a few whitebaiters looking in our direction.
The good old days when the salmon use to run, ah those were the days :thumbsup:
We use to wait till the silverys arrived then start chasing sea run Trout
kahawai are always great sport and good eating.......
some might suggest the few we harvested during the first weekend of May werent very sporting...I tend to differ and they tasted great LOL:innocent:
I remember the islander boys come up from Dunedin.Row their 12ft dingys across the lagoon to the mouth,north side.Fill the dingys up with kahawi and swim the dingys back to main land on to the trailor.Impressive watching 8 big natives pushing the truckntrails up the muddy ramp.Lot of fish went south in 4 dingys on trailors several times.
Got our first 1lb this season, only 4 others at the Hoki bar after the rain. Best we have done all week. Blind scooping is hard work. Early night and back out tomorrow.
I have had a couple of goes on the Moeraki river also known as the blue river up from Haast, did really well on one occasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by turtleSO
Yrs ago I caught 8lb at the Waita in one morning at top of lagoon.6 guys had 2 x20litre tins full of bait on each off their 4x4 bikes.There was hardly any freezer space left around Haast.Best they could sell bait to whole sales for
was $22/kg.Each tin held about 20kgs.I keeped my 8lb and drove back to Queenstown.Yum
