Cockles

[Elecmuso 77]

Knowing cockles have been difficult to source lately I rang ahead to BCF to ask whethere they had cockles and where they were sourced. The answer I was expecting was Thailand in which case I would not have bothered going (have purchased these before and found them to be way inferior). Instead he said 'I've been told they are from Melbourne or Sydney' so I figured that was a reasonable compromise.

So I drove to BCF and these are what they had. They didn't look like the interstate variety to me, and looked just like the Thai imports I'd tried once before. I left without bait (to make it worse they were out of gents!).

        

So exactly what are they?

[Rybak 622]

Probably imported mud cockles by the looks. Definitely not "goolwa" cockles. I would have thought SA Bait & Tackle would only supply good quality bait..........

[malb 62]

I used some of these recently and they were pretty soft and mushy.  Hard to keep on the hook.  Didn't seem to appeal to the fish so much either, but that may have just been the day.