Uncovering New Zealand's Whitebait Mystery: A Hidden Treasure

[@JenniferA886]

Cheers Pete, great vid 👍👍👍

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@paulherron1933]

Enjoyed that mate , eating them , not for me. But question , I hear there are Trout in Avon. If so can you fish for them ? Fishing and photography my too big passion's. It would be cool to catch a fish there. I saw and got photos of some rather large eels there. Cheers mate. Hope to see you in march / April all being well.

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Fishing in the Avon and Heathcote Rivers is allowed although a no fishing zone in the Avon River exists: between the Armagh Street Bridge and Barbadoes Street Bridge. within the Botanic Gardens. Yep big Trout and lots of Eels.

[@paulherron1933]

Cheers mate, something i want to do. @@AdventureTravelNewZealand

[@Ann-vo6jk]

Good video Pete……

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Thanks for the visit

[@fritzwacker3771]

What? I payed about 30 $ for a kg. However 25 years ago at west cost. In a pan, 1 egg and garlic. Delicious.

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Amazing!

[@ratulrk6770]

Love you sir all time* I like you always *my name is Shawmal Chandra sen from Bangladesh

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Hi my friend thanks for watching.

[@jase4270]

Selling it is disgusting with all the greedy baiters it needs to change immediately its all about anout the money not the fishing anymore.

[@tuma420wc8]

Whitebait is not the traditional name it is inanga kokopu,many varietiesof native trout.

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Wow cool thanks for the info

[@Kina_muncher]

Which name is it then ? If it's not whitebait ?

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[@CaliKiwi-]

Enjoy it while its still around. From information handed out at the Gamefishing club I work at, 3 of the 5 species are struggling and kiwis don’t care. They’ll fish them to extinction.

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Not really my thing mate.

[@kylerowley1231]

Heaps of bait around, you are being feed lies

[@dustinfrost5214]

Bs whitebait is still in high numbers just lies

[@dustinfrost5214]

Plus theres 7 species you obviously don't know much at all mate

[@sevenpointfive5450]

I would do that white bait when i retire, good fresh air Yee Haaa fella

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Yea my friend . Why not.

[@LawsOnJoystick]

150 a kg is not factual

[@jerrybow8779]

Half those fellas do it fulltime for 2 months. Sleeping in the red zone. Pretty stupid you can sell it but you can’t sell any other types of fish

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Oh really .Don't know much about white baiting.

[@bb21again.67]

I've never liked whitebait, always found it tasteless.Another over-rated food that everyone else raves about was mutton bird although I'm not sure if the saltiness was just a preservation technique.

[@AdventureTravelNewZealand]

Oh yes mutton bird .Not for me my friend . They say when you cook a mutton bird cook it with a brick once the brick gets soft throw away the mutton bird and eat the brick.