How to Catch Whitebait – An Easy Beginner’s Guide with Allan Burgess – Video
Home » Whitebaiting How to Catch Whitebait for Fun and a Feed In this article, we explain a bit about whitebaiting and offer a few tips to help the beginner get started. Learn about how to catch whitebait. Whitebaiters at the mouth of the Hokitika River, West Coast, of New Zealand’s South Island. Biology First of all, whitebait consists primarily More...
Whitebaiting in the Arawhata, Waiatoto, Turnbull, and Okuru Rivers
Home » Whitebaiting “On a single day in 1944, Des Nolan famously caught 130 kerosene tins of whitebait single-handed in the Waiatoto River.” A closer look at these Famous South Westland Whitebait Rivers Registered More...
Make a Whitebait Cleaning Screen to Separate Bait from Debris Video
Whitebait Cleaning Screen Video Making a Whitebait Cleaning Screen. Sometimes the best whitebaiting takes place when the river and surf are discoloured. There can be a lot of rubbish in the water carried down from More...
Okarito River Whitebaiting, Westland, New Zealand
Okarito West Coast Whitebait Run by Keith Reinke Richard Hunter dragging in the surf at Okarito. All the locals, as well as ourselves, were hoping for that West Coast whitebait run we all hear about but so few have More...
Hurunui River Whitebaiting – Fishing Shifting Sands by Linley
Hurunui River Whitebaiting by Linley All that effort getting to the Hurunui River mouth only to be faced with a rough sea and empty net. One of the first laws of whitebaiting is that the river mouth will always More...
Green Frogs and Whitebait – An Unusual West Coast Fishing Method
Green Frogs and Whitebait by Chris Tonkin A little green frog similar to the frogs harnessed by Robbie and Bert. The last rays of a sinking sun had vanished silently into the Tasman Sea well over an hour ago, but More...
Conservation of the Whitebait Fishery the Five Species of Galaxias
Home » Whitebaiting Conservation of the Whitebait Fishery by Peter Ravenscroft An adult Inanga (Galaxias maculatus). This fish makes up about 95% of the whitebait caught on the east coast of the South Island. The More...
Hapuka Estuary Walkway Westland – Whitebait and native birds – Video
Hapuka Estuary Wildlife Sanctuary – Tui, Kereru, Korimako, Whitebait The Hapuka Estuary Walk is located approximately 17 km south-west of Haast on the main highway. The loop track is a 1 km in length More...
Whitebait Chips – the very best way to Cook Whitebait Video
Whitebait Chips – the very best way to Cook Whitebait Video with Allan Burgess The very best way to cook whitebait is to simply coat them in self-raising flour then drop straight into a pan containing butter More...
Whitebaiting on the West Coast of the South Island with Margaret Fenemor
Whitebaiting on the West Coast of the South Island with Margaret Fenemor One good shoal. Things are looking up. The weather is idyllic, confounding all the popular beliefs about the whitebaiting on the West More...