Welcome to Greg James’s weekly fishing column, packed with hot tips for fishing Yorke Peninsula. You can contact Greg at greg@gregjamesfishing.com.au.
Recipe, grilled flathead with crispy garlic potatoes. Ingredients: 4 flathead fillets, low-carb whole spuds, seasoning, crushed garlic, flour, oil, chives, green beans. Preparation: Roast spuds in crushed garlic (210 degrees Celsius). Cover fillets in flour, seasoning and grill or cook in oil for four minutes. Serve fish with spuds topped with chives and green beans.
Wallaroo: Salmon trout are biting off the rocks at Point Riley and the Magazine, with schools of garfish also about. Boat crews have been targeting King George whiting, garfish and snook, while the jetty has had another quiet week.
Port Hughes/Moonta Bay: Small garfish are in the bay, with bigger fish further south. West Light is also producing garfish, along with King George whiting out wide. The jetties have small garfish in the late afternoon, while salmon trout are biting from local beaches around the early morning high tide.
Point Turton: Boat crews and jetty fishers braved last week’s cold weather to chase salmon trout, King George whiting, tommy ruff (Australian herring) and a few garfish. Shore-based fishers have also caught a mix of small salmon, mullet and dusky flathead.
Marion Bay/Stenhouse Bay: Offshore winds made for some fun shore-based fishing on the weekend, with salmon and mullet schools continuing their run. The jetties are producing tommies and garfish, while boat crews have been catching red nannygai, King George whiting, rat kingfish, flathead and snook.
Edithburgh/Stansbury: The grounds from Tapley Shoals north towards Orontes Bank produced some quality King George whiting last week, with fish up to 53cm. Smaller whiting are biting off the back of Rocky Gully and in Sultana Passage, while Marion Reef has leatherjackets and snook.
Ardrossan: More visitors have been trying their luck from the revamped jetty, targeting salmon trout, mullet and overnight mulloway. Boat crews have had limited success, with King George whiting, salmon trout in the shallows and snook making up the main reports.
Tight lines and see you soon!