Last weekend a few of the boys and I headed over to Jacksons Bay on our annual ‘Whitebaiting Trip’. Since we’ve never caught much whitebait, there was a rumour about town that we never went whitebaiting and really went to Vegas for a few days.
In years past, I’ve been able to name each individual whitebait that I caught….. not this year.
For those of you who don’t know what whitebait is – this is me with my babies (blurred out because us Queenstown Kunts need to hide our identities). Stuff sells for about $80/kg on the street… we caught a little shy of 15kgs ($1200) – we ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner and what was left still doesn’t cover the gas and booze we used over 4 days – hahaha.
Malcolm the Maori with his babies (and one hell of a big smile)…..
This is an ‘action’ photo of us catching whitebait…. the technique involves putting the net in the water, drinking some piss and coming back 2hrs later to check the net. I don’t think it will make good TV…. ‘Deadliest Catch’ move over for ‘Wild WhiteBaiting’.
It might not be ‘Wild Whitebaiting’ but there are some ‘Wild Whitebaiters’. The West Coast folks think that Queenstowners are city slickers and aren’t too friendly…. but after we caught a shit tonne of whitebait, kept them up with our late ‘Queenstown style’ partying and pissed them off with our jetboating they started referring to us as the “Queenstown Kunts”.
An angry Queenstown Kunt out in the ocean looking for cray (lobster) pots…..
The “Australian Whitebaiting Champion”, another Queenstown Kunt, barefooting off the front of the jetboat….
A couple of Queenstown Kunts boozing up….
