If you’ve got a few fish fillets you want to cook up and you’re looking for something a bit different, you’ll love my salt and vinegar fish. This is a recipe that will get them talking. It’s great for anyone trying to put something together in a hurry or for those planning a cruisy fish and chip night. Here’s how you do it:

Ingredients:

You need two boneless fish fillets, one packet of salt and vinegar chips and a ziplock bag. Your choice of salad or veggies to serve with it.

Method:

Place two handfuls of chips in the ziplock bag and crush them. Place your fillets in the bag and shake. Then tightly push the fillets into the chip crumbs to ensure they are well coated. Cook in a frying pan with some olive oil at a high temperature for three to five minutes either side. They’ll go golden brown. Serve with chips and sweet chilli mayonnaise and add salad or veggies if you want a more rounded meal.

If you’re planning fish and chips this week give it a go and let us know how it turns out.

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What a great spell of weather we’re having. It’s well overdue. I hope you’ve been making the most of it. We’ve certainly been busy this week.

Here’s a shout out to Hugh, who spent his bucks’ party on the boat with us on Friday, enjoying the fishing, sun and a cold beer. It was a lot of fun.

The boys kept enough fish for a barbecue that night. And it was great that we were able to let some of the good fish go to fight another day.

Our best fish this week was a six kilogram coral trout caught on the Caloundra 12 Mile Reef. It was caught using a pilchard for bait.

Coral trout is a species we usually catch in the warmer months so it was good to see such a big one at this time of year. Well done mate!

Overall, the fishing for the week has been good although Sunday was a little slow, possibly because of strong currents.

On our half-day trips we have been making the most of the mackerel as they migrate north for the winter. They’ll only be around for a few more weeks, so you need to get out there soon if you want to hook one.

Our full day trips on the outer reefs have been good for catching winter species like pearl perch and snapper as well as a lot of venus tuskfish, which is a popular table fish.

What’s being caught this week:

Currimundi Reef: spotted mackerel, grassy sweetlip, tuskfish and squire

Caloundra 9 Mile: snapper, tuskfish, grassy sweetlip and moses perch

Caloundra 12 Mile: grassy sweetlip, squire, pearl perch, coral trout and maori cod

Murphy’s Reef and Gneerings: spotted mackerel, mac tuna, squire and sweetlip

Barwon Banks: snapper, pearl perch, moses perch, maori cod, tuskfish, fusilier and hussar.

The weather in the next week doesn’t look as stable as it has been and the predictions are that Friday and Sunday will be a bit blowy for offshore fishing. But apart from that we should be heading out. Give us a call if you’d like to come along.

Happy Hunting!

Wow! The weather has been perfect this last week and we’ve been making the most

of it. I hope youhave too.  The conditions have been excellent for offshore fishing and

the great news is the next week looks much the same. 

This is a pic Steve took for us on Sunday morning.

With the full moon this week, the fish should be on the bite.

We got in a few trips over the last week and Sunday turned out to be the best day

for fishing.  The biggest fish we reeled in was this 5.5 kg snapper from Caloundra 9 mile.

Congratulations Trent!

What’s being caught:

Murphy’s Reef: squire, Moses perch,  sweetlip and blue-barred parrotfish

Currimundi Reef: sweetlip, spotted mackerel, Moses perch and squire

Caloundra 9 Mile: tuskfish, sweetlip, snapper and pearl perch

Caloundra 12 Mile: pearl perch, squire, kingfish and Maori cod

Barwon Banks: snapper, pearl perch, amberjack and tuskfish

There’s a lot of sweetlip around at the moment and they can be found on all inshore reefs.

They rangein size up to four kilograms and we’ve been letting a lot of juveniles go so the

numbers are lookinghealthy and we should continue to have fun catching these for a while

to come.  If you’re keen to hook a sweetlip, I find the best time to catch them is in the

afternoon on a making tide. They are most active a week either side of full moon, so now

is certainly the time to give it a go.  They fight well and they’regreat eating. And the best

part is that you don’t have to go far to catch them.

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Happy Hunting!

It’s still six weeks until winter but we’ve already started catching a few cold weather species like

jewfish, pearl perch, cobia and snapper.

As the temperature cools down these species move into the nutrient rich shallow reefs to spawn.

Snapper is one of my favourites. As well as being a hard fighting fish, it is one of the best eating

fish in the sea. The fillets are delectable if the fish is bled and put in an ice slurry shortly after

capture.  If you’re chasing snapper, the best time to catch them is at dawn and dusk around the

tide change. Drifting is a particularly good way to find where the snapper are feeding and once

you have found a hot bite, anchor up and berley.

Their favourite foods include pilchards, squid and flesh baits such as mullet.

Hooking a big one can be a bit tougher than the average two to three kilogram range – they get

to this size for a reason. I find you produce the quality fish when using the lightest sinker possible,

or even better, no sinker and let your bait slowly drift through the water columns.

Snapper can reach 14 kilograms on our local reefs during the winter months.

Let us know how you go.

Here's a couple of good snapper Steve caught last year:

 

 Fishing Report

It’s been a bit quiet the last week and while the big fish have been elusive there have still been some good eating fish caught in local waters. This is what we’ve seen reeled in during the last week.

Caloundra 9 Mile – sweetlip, tuskfish, moses perch, mackerel

Caloundra 12 Mile – Cobia, sweetlip, pearl perch, squire and Maori cod

Murphy’s Reef – morwong, squire, mackerel and tuna

Currimundi Reef – sweetlip, squire, mackerel and estuary cod

Barwon Banks – red emperor, spangled emporer, fusilier, Maori cod and tuna

The weather pattern looks stable for the next 10 to 14 days, so happy hunting!

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