Thread: Dog Food

Originally Posted by omark

Did you feed the eels raw or cooked. I’ve also heard that trout are good as they have a high fat/oil content esp if from the Rotorua lakes

My son uses the slab trout from Rotorua for snapper bait. Says its wicked. The trout he gets from Tarawera and Otakaina are*smoked. You are right. They are so nice to eat smoked. Think it is the koura they have as a ingredient in their diet.

Originally Posted by TeRei

My son uses the slab trout from Rotorua for snapper bait. Says its wicked. The trout he gets from Tarawera and Otakaina are*smoked. You are right. They are so nice to eat smoked. Think it is the koura they have as a ingredient in their diet.

tell him to smoke all of the trout and to use koi carp as bait. seems nuts to pay for a license to catch trout as bait when koi is free

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

tell him to smoke all of the trout and to use koi carp as bait. seems nuts to pay for a license to catch trout as bait when koi is free

There are too many trout in Taupo. DOC encourages the taking of trout for that reason. In the streams from taupo to turangi you hear stories of fishermen saying exactly that... caught 30 fish ,all slabs.

as any one on here actually had success with koi carp as bait we tried it of Cape Karikari Kaitaia both berley and bait - this in an area that with a skipjack bait and berley or pilchards would have produced snapper but the koi-- bloody useless