I buy prawns at around $10 a kg, for fish bait I’ve been catching my own. mullet and garfish in Picton or at waikawa, and kahawai at the diversion. I also managed to score forty kgs of fish farm pellets Guy in trademe, dated pellets from a kingfish farm) and find a good trail is the key to drawing in plenty of bait fish,and . I usually mince up all my frames and freeze them too
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Whitebait Season starts 1 September 2026 and ends 30 October (inclusive). Chatham Islands: 1 December to the last day of February (inclusive)