Welcome to the column with all the hot tips and recipes for fishing around Yorke Peninsula. You can contact Greg at greg@gregjamesfishing.com.au
Easter seafood recipe — tommy ruffs (Australian herring) menuiere with lemon caper sauce. Ingredients: 6 tommy ruff fillets, 2 teaspoons caper berries, 4 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon minced garlic, lemon juice, chopped parsley, plain flour. Preparation: Dust fish fillets with flour. Melt butter in small pan, then add chopped capers, garlic and lemon juice then cook slowly for 30 seconds and stir. Cook fish in more melted butter and plate. Plate and drizzle warm sauce (meuniere) over fish. Happy Easter!
Wallaroo: Boat crews are catching blue crabs, snook and garfish from Bird Reef, Point Riley and Myponie Point. The jetty has rat kingfish, the very occasional bluey and sprat tommy ruffs. Flathead are coming from the sandy patches just off Squid Rock (Point Riley).
Moonta Bay/Port Hughes: Shore based fishers and rakers continue to fish along the shallows from Rifle Butts Beach and Simms Cove for blue crabs and flathead. Boat crews are anxiously trying to avoid the algal bloom as they run out for blueys, flathead, King George whiting and garfish.
Point Turton: Increasing fuel prices are really starting to bite into the recreational fishing sector, as the cost of a decent run out to Mindlacowie or The Banks has now topped the $60-$100 mark. Whiting, gar, flathead and snook have been the main reports for boat anglers, while shore and jetty based results are thin.
Marion/Stenhouse Bays: “No squid, mate” has been the common response from jetty-based anglers for over 12 months now as fishers despair over the lack of a favourite species. Boat crews are chasing tuna, red nannygai, kingfish and flathead in close to shore. Local surf casting beaches have mullet, tommies and a flathead or two.
Ardrossan/Pine Point: Blue crabs were back on the menu for several boat crews as they ran out early mornings for a much-awaited fishing session from Ardrossan. Snook are also along the coastline as they hunt their food source of small fish and crustaceans. Flathead can be found in the shallows from Tiddy Widdy beach, James Well and Billy Goat Flat/Pine Point.
Tight lines and see you next week!