It's almost the season to be jolly, but keen fishers around the country are jumping for joy over the season's bumper catch of one of the ocean's precious fish species.
Whitebait, and Billie Jo Hohepa-Ropiha took her knife and fork to the King Country town of Kawhia hoping to get a feed and follow in the footsteps of two Waikato women's passion for the Moorish dish.