Welcome to the column with all the hot tips for fishing around Yorke Peninsula; contact Greg by email at greg@gregjamesfishing.com.au.
Recipe, Anzac Day seafood pies — Ingredients: 1 salmon fillet cubed, green prawns cleaned, 1 carrot, 1 leek, 2 spuds chopped, flour, milk, fish stock, white wine, 1 egg, 3 sheets shortcrust pastry, butter, seasoning, garlic to taste. Preparation: Cook chopped veg with butter in hot frypan, adding milk, wine and flour. Simmer for 3mins and add seafood. Season and cool. Pour mix into pastry lined dishes after brushing with egg wash. Bake for 15mins, 180C. Serve with a glass of draught beer.
Wallaroo: Some great fishing weather quickly gave way to a few scattered showers and then strong south-westerly winds. Tommy ruff (Australian herring) and a few squid were at the jetty, while boat crews ran out for King George whiting and squid from Bird Reef and the Ballast grounds.
Moonta Bay/Port Hughes: Strong tides helped anglers who made the trip down to Cape Elizabeth and the Steamer Channel for whiting, snook and flathead, with late afternoon gar also inside Moonta Bay. The jetties have squid and there are a few mullet off the sand at Second and Weetulta Beaches.
Point Turton: Garfish were caught south of Bluff Beach and Port Rickaby before the cooler weather and the whiting should return after the winds drop back later this week. Squid and gar are in the shallows at Point Souttar, Magazine Beach and The Pines. The jetty has night-time squid and not much else.
Stenhouse Bay/Marion Bay: Berry Bay and Gym Beach hold small mullet and salmon trout on the high tides for the many shore-based anglers camping and holidaying along the south coast. Boat crews caught red nannygai, whiting, flathead and squid, with tuna reports very much on the slow side. The jetties have had a few squid and tommy ruff and there are garfish at times at Penguin Point.
Edithburgh/Stansbury: KG whiting, squid and snook were the main reports from Klein Point, Coobowie, Sultana Point and Marion Reef with a few big, fat whiting off the deep water at Troubridge Light. The jetties had tommies and squid on the high tides.
Black Point/Ardrossan: Boat crews launched from busy ramps and congested beach access points for a few gar, very few blue crabs and some squid. Rakers were noticeably absent in the cooler weather, while the Ardrossan jetty had best results for squid after dark in the mosquito haze.
Tight lines and see you next week!