Welcome to the column with all the hot tips for fishing around Yorke Peninsula. Contact Greg by email at geg greg@gregjamesfishing.com.au.

Recipe: Prawn spring rolls. Ingredients: 10 green and cleaned prawns, chopped cabbage, julienned carrots, garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, veg oil, spring roll (rice) paper, wasabi paste, mayonnaise. Preparation: cook prawns, cabbage and carrots in hot pan for 2-3 minutes with soy sauce, garlic and sesame oil and allow to cool. Wrap mix in spring roll paper and seal. Deep fry rolls in vegetable oil for 5 minutes and serve with a wasabi mayo (mayonnaise stirred with liberal amounts of Korean wasabi paste).

Wallaroo: Maintenance work is being done on small sections of the jetty as those cold northerly winds limited jetty-based fishing to only the hardy last week. Some nice squid were caught during the week around midday. Boat crews were timing their run outs for King George whiting, squid and snook before the strong winds cracked in again on Monday.

Moonta Bay/Port Hughes: Try the jetties for squid, night-time tommies and small garfish. Boat crews used the limited good weather last week to fish for whiting, squid and snook.

Port Victoria/Balgowan: Most reports of King George whiting have come from Wardang Island and the broken grounds well offshore from Balgowan. A few squid are also about and the Port Vic jetty produced squid mid-week.

Port Rickaby/Point Turton: Brave and resolute shore-based fishers tackled the windy conditions at Bushes Beach and Barker Rocks for small mullet and the hope of a flathead or two. Boat crews ran out from Point Turton for garfish, whiting and squid.

Stenhouse/Marion Bays: Surfers rode the local swells at Chinaman’s Hat Island during the week as surf casters fished at Hillocky’s, Jolly’s and Willyama beaches for not much as the algal bloom pollution marches on. Offshore there are red nannys, whiting and blue morwong.

Update — Edithburgh/Stansbury/Ardrossan: Again I apologise for being the bearer of bad news on the Gulf St Vincent fishing front but I did watch with cynical amusement as the news finally hit home when the algal bloom started to affect metro beaches! Both recreational and commercial fishers are not seeing an improvement from Ardrossan to Edithburgh, although the deep and fast tidal waters south of Edithburgh may hold a few flathead and snook.

Tight lines and see you next week!