Thread: Whitebait Condiments

Originally Posted by Chris

Yes it has a gut ,no water in your bucket or they burst. The fine bait I mentioned is what we call inunga ,hes the little guy the climbs up the inside of the bucket .
I know the Haast stuff I won a couple pound at a shoot ,be twice the size of ours but transparent ,not too bad either.

You must have won the shoot for someone to part with that for a prize

Originally Posted by R93

You must have won the shoot for someone to part with that for a prize

Think I was shooting OK that day thanks .

They use the fins up by the head like legs.

They are the ones with tiny legs and can wriggel/crawl up the side of the bucket a bit R93? Inunga that is.

I know the larger bait you are reffering to I think, Iv only ever heard them reffered to as "flood bait" as they have no probs swimming up a high river.

I like em one large egg or two small ones to a pound(just enough to hold them together when cooked) with salt and cracked pepper mixed in. Fryed in butter then eaten maybe with a bit of lemon.
If you need to stretch em out a bit put the patties between two bits of bread

Like scollop's/oysters or any thing out of water they lose 80% of there flavor as soon as they hit the freazer. Still good tho

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

They are the ones with tiny legs and can wriggel/crawl up the side of the bucket a bit R93? Inunga that is.

Buggered if I seen any whitebait with tiny legs Cam!

You and Sneeze better stop drinking the water up there or us dirty coasters wont be the only ones sporting extra appendages

Put your glasses on!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Put your glasses on!

Are you serious???? I have never seen it or even heard it mentioned. Run bait, late in the season will scale a bucket. I am sure they wriggle their way up, not climb.

I will keep an eye out this season.

Originally Posted by R93

Are you serious???? I have never seen it or even heard it mentioned. Run bait, late in the season will scale a bucket. I am sure they wriggle their way up, not climb.

I will keep an eye out this season.

They are actually little wee fins that sort of look like legs and they use them like legs getting up the bucket

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

They are actually little wee fins that sort of look like legs and they use them like legs getting up the bucket

Oh. Cool, I am with ya now. You can drink the water now.

For a coaster if have to say I hate the shit but that's just me :eek:

Don't mind catching it to give away or sell tho :thumbup:
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I dont drink water, fish do stuff in it

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I dont drink water, fish do stuff in it

Free protein I don't see ya problem . Drink & a fed at the same time .

I'm keen to try a recipe that doesn't involve eggs, I like my bait patties, but seems a bit of a waste just to overpower them with egg all the time.....
Anybody have a different way of cooking thier bait?

Originally Posted by Bulltahr

I'm keen to try a recipe that doesn't involve eggs, I like my bait patties, but seems a bit of a waste just to overpower them with egg all the time.....
Anybody have a different way of cooking thier bait?

Just in a hot pan with Butter , salt pepper . and a touch of lemon . Only need a minute or two .

Thats why I use the bare minimum to hold it together.

A mates missus is allergic to egg so they make patties with something? flour I guess Il find out.

i love the the bannter about white baiting every one has differnet idears of what they are.i spent 5 years learning about them and growing them up,they are actualy the juveniles stage of 5 natvie fish part of the galaxiid family inanga would make up most of the white bait catch then ther are koaro and the are the ones that climb out of ya bucket they are all so known to climb out of the water up waterfalls ,then thers the Banded kokopu he also climbs but not as good,and shortjaw kokopu is one of the rearest if not the most rear out of the 5 ,and the bigest and have know to get as big as 500mm is the gaint kokopu and hes mostly found on the west cost of the south island,this would explain the different taste i would say,sorry for the banter but i love to spreed the word of these miss understood fish that has no protection so catch only what u can eat,
but back on to the subjet i love it when its st8 out of the water in to a egg and on to a hot plate real butter on the bread and salt mmmmmm.o man cant wait to the river drops and i can start building the stand.