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    Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 9:21pm
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What's a good price for 5kg of frozen pillys??

Anyway hope this is a good deal or else its a waste of time telling you guys!

Whangarei mad butcher has 3.6kg box of pillys for $22-$24 (I can't exactly remember) and a 5kg box for $30

Hope this saves somebody some money.
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$30 for 5kg is a pretty good price
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I get 22.6kg of pillies for 115 dollars so 30 bucks isnt to bad
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Price depends a bit on the age/quality/origin of the Pilchards. The Bait Station currently has a deal on South African Pilchards 1 kg box for $3.99, 5 x 1kg boxes for $18.75, 10 x 1kg boxes for $35.00. NZ Pilchards : 5 kg for $27.55
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As long as they are NZ pillies. Wouldnt touch the other crap.
 
 
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If your in Whangarei shoot up to Hikurangi and see the salty dog factory. We got 5kg boxs for $30 last week but they were the best pillies I have ever seen. Apparently they are only a few weeks old and they are big pillies, great size for rock fishing. I would happily pay $30 for pillies of that quality but the problem is sometimes I pay $30 and get an absolute crapper of a box! 
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Avoid the South African ones.Low quality rubbish sad to say.The gut cavity was decayed and rotten
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Yeah these were salty dog 1s. I gues if there not in a bag its a luck thing haha.
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Originally posted by JK JK wrote:

As long as they are NZ pillies. Wouldnt touch the other crap.
 
 
I agree on this one. Our fish generally don't seem to like imported pillies, plus they're often substandard. Check their pedigree.
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salty dog NZ 1st grad pilly 5kg box $29, vip $26.1

WWW.YEEHAA.CO.NZ
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30 Jellicoe Road Panmure
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I got a 5kg box of leigh bait pillies from top catch whangaparoa for $27 and they were mint. Great size for straylining and so clean and fresh and they lasted for 4 days in my chillybin and were as good till the last pilly. Almost good enough to eat!! Wish we had a topcatch in Hawkes Bay. Sick of **** yellow bellied pillies!!!
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We used Salty Dog pillys on our last 3 NZ LB trips to the east cape,
Bloody good bait,
Would not bother with the South African ones, Good for burley at best
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Yeah the South African pillies are low quality but great if you salt them. I get them for $3.25 p/kg and & they work great for that. You cant use em thawed without a ton of bait cotton.
My salted pillies outfished my mate using fresh NZ pillies on the weekend, we both used tuna oil so you never really know I guess.
I even do a batch of really stinky salted pillies, the kind that makes your hands smell for days. Snapper love em!!
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yea $30 is average price I think top catch which used to be stumpys sometimes has them on special for $25 would it be cheapper to buy them directly from salty dog in hikurangi?
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Originally posted by Big Jim Big Jim wrote:

I got a 5kg box of leigh bait pillies from top catch whangaparoa for $27 and they were mint. Great size for straylining and so clean and fresh and they lasted for 4 days in my chillybin and were as good till the last pilly. Almost good enough to eat!! Wish we had a topcatch in Hawkes Bay. Sick of **** yellow bellied pillies!!!
 
I use them as well BigJim. Great quality baits!
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Leigh pillies or freshly caught pillies for me. I buy the 5kg box and break it down into smaller amounts and leave in the freezer.
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I do believe that ther are no more NZ pillies in the shops as the local guys havent been catching any.
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I used to use any pillies,then heard about salty dogs after watching matts show lol, and they pillies i was using sucked at the time so went up yehha got a bag shot off to the nearest point about 15 mins later 3 kwai  3 other fisho's i had meet down there  about 3 weeks before hand were near also an had been there for 2 hours  using pillies (not saltydog) caught 1 kwai between em so if im getting pillies its NZ all the ways..
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Originally posted by borntofish borntofish wrote:

I do believe that ther are no more NZ pillies in the shops as the local guys havent been catching any.
im not an expert but have the locals tried spot X ?LOL
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Ive always found the salty dog stuff crap imo, Yeah the top catch whangaparoa does have good prices on bait good stuff to aswell as the silverdale bait n tackle
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