February 21, 2012
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Seafood recipe, Pavy Creek fish and pumpkin red curry
Ingredients: A splash of olive oil, chopped brown onion, fresh ginger, red
curry paste, 400ml coconut cream, half kilo peeled and chopped pumpkin,
brown sugar, splash of fish sauce, half kilo fish pieces, 250gm snow peas,
250gm sticky rice, lemon/lime juice and coriander (garnish).
Preparation: Heat oil in saucepan to high, cook onion, brown sugar and
curry paste for one minute. Add coconut cream, chopped pumpkin, fish
sauce, bring to boil and cover. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for
four-five minutes. Add fish and snow peas and cook through. Cook rice
separately, add lemon juice to fish curry, garnish with coriander.
Port Broughton: Boaties enjoyed early morning fishing as the wind
decreased steadily throughout the week. Santa Anna wreck and the car
bodies artificial reef are holding snapper and a few whiting. The jetty has
blueys, trumpeters and salmon trout. Fisherman’s Bay has snook, garfish and
blue crabs.
Wallaroo: The Bay has mullet, garfish and nice blueys. Boats fishing Point
Riley caught whiting, herring, gar and blue crabs. The jetty has herring, chow,
squid and blueys; beach anglers are catching nice mullet, salmon trout and a
few yellowfin whiting. Boats fishing south of town are catching blueys,
snook, gar and whiting out from The Magazine and Bird Island.
Moonta Bay/Port Hughes: Good reports recently for the jetty fishing
scene with blueys, gar, squid and herring at both jetties; green mackerel
schools are due about this time of the year. Gordon’s Rock and Coopers have
whiting, snook, garfish and blue crabs; small snapper in the Channel and at
West Light. The Cape has salmon trout, yellowfin whiting, mullet and squid.
Point Turton/The Pines/Corny Point: Main reports of whiting are from the
shoals and deeper water at Point Souttar. Boats chasing snapper are finding
them west towards The Pines and down to Corny Point. Whiting are in
Hardwicke Bay, but many are small this time of year. At the jetty there are
garfish, salmon trout and herring in the evenings.
Stenhouse Bay and Marion Bay: Jetty fishing produced sweep, big
rockfish, trevalley and rugger snapper recently. The best action for boats has
been in the deeper water grounds south of Marion Bay where the main
catches are sweep, small tuna, red nannygai, snook, whiting and herring.
Edithburgh: Rocky Gully boaties are catching snook, flathead and squid. At
Tapley Shoals there are blue morwong, some nice snapper and whiting. The
town jetty is best at night for squid and herring. Port Giles jetty has salmon
trout, herring and squid; Klein’s Point anglers have found small mulloway,
flathead and mullet.
Port Vincent: Orontes Bank has whiting and snook. Rakers working the
shallows at The Hut and the old Oyster Lease have done well on an out-going
tide. Beach fishers are catching mullet and yellowfin whiting using sea
worms as bait.
Ardrossan: The jetty has blueys and mullet, mulloway and mullet also
being landed at the boat ramp rocks after darkness falls. Boat crews are
catching snapper, snook and a few blueys.
Tight lines and see you next week! Greg James©