South Australian Angler – June 2018

tommies and the occasional bream and

yellowfin whiting.

The beach immediately south of the

town is very reliable for yellowfin in the

warmer months, as are some of the flats

to the north. You’ll need a substantial

tide variation to catch these great

inshore fish, and there’s no doubt that

pumping live clickers will put you in with

the best chance.

Small boat operators can find gar,

KG whiting, snook, squid and blue

crabs in good numbers and not far

from the marina – all according to

season, of course.

Vincent offers plenty of facilities for

short-stay visitors, including a top class

country pub, supermarket and a very

well stocked tackle/outdoors store. It

also boasts a lovely foreshore caravan

park and terrific rental properties,

so there’s plenty to suit all tastes and

budgets.

STANSBURY

About 20km further south you’ll

find Stansbury, which is roughly the

same size as Port Vincent and is

equipped with facilities of comparable

quality. This town has a nice friendly

atmosphere and some of the very best

fishing available on Yorke Peninsula. It’s

a squidder’s paradise, with vast ribbon

weed flats in shallow water that attract

thousands of big calamari during the

winter spawning season.

The jetty is quite a long one at just

over 300m, and fishes consistently

throughout the year. Squid and

tommies make up the bulk of the jetty

catch, but there are mullet, gar, snook

and salmon trout available at different

times. School-sized yellowtail kings

turn up occasionally, creating havoc

when they grab baits on light tackle,

and blue crabs can be prolific between

Christmas and March.

Stansbury’s protected boat harbor is

first class, with dual lane ramp, boarding

pontoons and spacious car park. It’s an

Ben Harris with a nice little Stansbury kingfish

Stansbury jetty is one of the

longest on eastern YP

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