• Savannah Georgia - Fishing Report

    Miss Judy Charters
    http://www.missjudycharters.com
  • Miss Judy Charters provides Inshore fishing, Offshore fishing, and Gulf Stream fishing charters. Whether it's sport fishing for the serious angler or a leisurely day for the family, we have the trip for you. We have been fishing in Savannah, Tybee and adjacent waters for over 50 years. We have the knowledge for your inshore and offshore fishing adventure.

  • Savannah Georgia - Fishing Report

    While inshore fishing with Captain Justin Rahn of Miss Judy Charters Bill Sowell of Macon, Georgia caught fought and release this beautiful trophy red fish!



    Inshore report


    Firstly, I would like to say that this is the time of the year that fishing at the coast is great! And the best news is that it doesn’t matter whether you an inshore or offshore fisherman. So whether it is your boat or mine, serious fish bites can happen!
    Now that the month of November has arrived the inshore bite will certainly pick up. It is much easier to score a Savannah Slam, which is red fish, spotted sea trout, and flounder. The secret to catching more inshore fish during this time is to use live shrimp as bait. All fish like shrimp, because it’s easy to kill, easy to eat, and it’s more plentiful. And it seems that once you get the bite “a going” it’s simple enough to change straight to any sort of artificial shrimp pattern. As far as how to present your live shrimp there are several ways: Popping corks with 3 to 4 foot leaders. It’s best to put a shot weight about 1 foot above the hook, because this helps keep the bait deep under the cork. Another thing good about popping corks is the sound that they make when they are popped. They sound just like a shrimp flapping its tail up against its body! This is a spotted sea trout, flounder, and red fish “head turner” for sure. Traditional adjustable floats come in all sizes and work great when trying to find the bite at different depths. When anchoring is the plan, I suggest using the larger versions of the traditional adjustable corks, because it enables you to make longer drifts. The larger corks can be seen for a further distances allowing you to be able to cover a lot more area without changing locations. This is a very good tip especially when fishing in a cooler water situation, because “fish beware” sounds seem to travel further. It seems the more you move the longer you have to wait to see if there really is any sort of bite in the area picked to fish. For those fishermen that want to use artificial only this is the month for you. The secret when going this route is to use lighter tackle for that better feel. I like using 8 pound test monofilament line while tying artificial bait directly meaning no leader needed. Here are a few artificial suggestions: DOA’s rigged or not, Berkeley scented gulps, Strike King soft baits flukes, paddle and curly tails...etc. My favorite cold water colors are electric chicken, baby bass, and root beer. Last but not least is “Just fishing naked!” All you need is hook, leader, and bait! Live shrimp or fish swims where it thinks it’s safe and that’s just about where the larger fish are in waiting!



    Captain Justin Rahn of Miss Judy Charters is preparing to safely lift this big trophy red fish! Mike Kochanik Savannah, Georgia is the angler and this fish measured 41 inches! What a catch!!!
    2021 Captain Judy’s Inshore/Offshore Fishing Clinics


    February 19, 2021 Friday, February 20, 2021 Saturday and February 21, 2021 Sunday
    On inshore/offshore boats in the water
    $150.00 per person for inshore
    $150.00 per person for offshore
    Morning departures
    Time: 8:00AM till12:00 NOON


    Afternoon departures
    Time: 1 PM till 5:00 PM
    Snacks and drinks provided by Captain Judy


    Place: Miss Judy Charters dock
    202 Wilmington Island Road, Savannah, Georgia 31410
    912 897 4921 for more details!


    We will be offering classes on the water in the boats:
    Inshore fishing
    Proven Inshore light tackle techniques revealed!
    Red fish, spotted sea trout, and flounder!
    And
    Offshore fishing
    Proven offshore techniques that took years to modify!
    (Artificial reefs, Savannah Snapper Banks, and Gulf Stream)





    Please meet the Kochanik Fishing Team.. Bill Kochanik Savannah and his three fishing catching sons Mike, Christopher, and David! What are they holding? Dinner! All other fish were caught fought and released unharmed back to the wild! This fishing family affair turned out to be a trip for the record books! Yep, they will be back!





    From left to right: Jennifer & Johnny Wright Pooler, Georgia, Gary Wright (father) Roanoke, Alabama, Captain Robert Brown, and Jim Price
    While inshore fishing with Captain Robert Brown and first mate Jim Price of Miss Judy Charters Jennifer & Johnny Wright Pooler, Georgia and visiting Gary Wright (father) Roanoke, Alabama had one heck of a catching blast. On the fish cleaning table are trout, red fish, and Bonnet head sharks! Jennifer did a grand job of landing the biggest and the most! The guys caught a few and that’s all they had to say about that!

    The old barracuda is still around and should be until the water temps drops below 65 and stays there! This is one of those fish types that kill for sport! And they are sporting the perfect set of teeth that makes this possible!
    Offshore

    Artificial Reef report
    The bottom fishing at the artificial reefs located in 50 to 70 feet of water normally are holding a nice build up of black sea bass. Just about all structures on the reefs will hold fish. However, sometimes you have to look before you find the bulk of the bottom fish. Please go to coastalgadnr.org/HERU for all offshore artificial reefs coordinates. I am always suggesting keeping on board a paper copy of the artificial coordinates that you frequent. Yes, having them in your phone and GPS is a great idea, but it is always nice to be able to look at the old chart. The good news is that most new navigation units supposedly has all of the spots loaded into the GPS. However, I have found that the printing updated information is always a catching plus!
    The best bait is going to be squid and cut fish. Artificial Reefs such L, CCA, and J buoy normally are holding the attentions of the winter end run of the Spanish/king mackerel. For the first two weeks of this month the chances are strong for a solid hook up. The last two weeks may or may not hold the interest of the winter kings. Any serious water temperature drop makes them move to warmer waters. We normally pull 2 ½ to 31/2 Drone Spoons for the kings and small to medium Clark spoons for the Spanish mackerel. Best trolling speed is 5 to 7 knots. For those fishermen that want to drift these areas with light tackle and live baits this is a good time to go this route.
    Trophy red fish could also be caught while trolling, bottom fishing, or live lining these areas. Please remember these fish are on the federally protected program list. You can catch them but you can’t keep them!

    What is this? When alive and kicking a perfect grouper bait! Better known as Grouper Candy!

    Savannah Snapper Banks report
    Bottom Fishing at the Snapper Banks
    Bottom fishing at the Savannah Snapper Banks for grouper is still open as well as quite a few others. Best live baits when targeting grouper are small vermilion, pinfish, sand perch, bluefish and rock bass. If you can’t catch these baits while plain old bottom fishing with squid, give the old sabiki rig a try. For those that like the standard old bottom fishing with live bait such as cigar minnows or Spanish sardines or cut squid now is the time. Best rigs to use to catch these live baits are going to be Sabiki gold hook rigs. Whatever you do always carry extra bait rigs, because they work great and get a lot of abuse. Unfortunately, I am still reporting that live baits are not as plentiful as they have been in past years. Normally a fisherman could stop by any of the artificial reefs, drop a sabiki bait rig down, and catch a live well full of choice bait. However, this has not been the case for the past couple of fishing years.

    For those of you that still have the coordinates of where the artificial (old yellow reef buoys) reef buoys used to be anchored, I suggest giving these areas a try. Believe it or not, but there is pretty much some sort of structure at all of the spots where the artificial reefs buoys used to be anchored. And where you got undisturbed structure you got fish! Let’s keep this well-kept secret between GON readers and us!

    Since the bait is not so much where it usually schools, I strongly suggest picking up a box of frozen cigar minnows or Spanish sardines at your local bait shop. You will notice that the Cigar minnows will be more expensive than the Spanish sardines. I suggest purchasing the Spanish sardines and keeping them frozen as long as you can. These partially frozen baits whole or cut in half will stay on the hook better. If you can’t find any frozen baits I suggest putting the old cast net in the boat. The ocean menhaden has been strong this year and this is also bait that will work live and used when cut up. When traveling to the sound and you happen to see schools of peanut menhaden flipping I suggest giving them a catching try. Sometimes all it takes is one cast to fill you live well. The small menhaden whether they are dead or alive work great and you don’t have to cut them up. If you do catch a lot of them I suggest not over filling your live well. When there are leftovers I suggest putting them in a bucket and cover with salt water. This type of soaking will keep their shine alive. Cut up expired shinny menhaden work great as bottom bait.

    What is this? A target rich environment! FISH HERE!
    Gulf Stream report

    Trolling and strolling the blue water express!


    For those fishermen that don’t mind a longer ocean ride the blue waters of the gulf can certainly hold the interest of big game fish especially during the month of November. During this time the edge between the cooler western waters and the continuously northern pushed warmer waters of the stream is formed. This is where smaller fish feel safe and where larger fish feed. As far as best baits to drag, you certainly do have lots of options. For those fishermen that want to do a little rigging I suggest dragging ballyhoo from small dinks to large horse size dressed in different color skirts or rigged just plain naked with or without chin weights. For those fishermen that just want to drag the artificial stuff, believe me it does work. I like pulling cedar plugs that have been soaked in menhaden oil. This is where you forget the painted cedar plugs and just go plain cedar. Or do a little sanding/scraping on the painted ones so as to expose the wood. This wood can really soak up the oil and when trolled it leaves a nice oily trail. Dolphin Delight made by “No Alibi” is a plastic squid lure made with feathers and it works great when pulled about 4 feet behind a bird. Best lures to pull are old school black/silver and blue/silvers Halcos rattlers and black with orange bottom Terminators. (YO-ZOURI bonitos lures) And if the trolling doesn’t work, there is always deep water jigging for big gags and scamp grouper. As far as main line used, I like using 80 pound braid, because it cuts through the water with less friction delivered. Best jigs for deep water are the big boys Williamson or SHIMANO 7 to 10.5 ounces. The best old school no frills jigs are the Bridgeport diamond jig, which comes in 1 to 16 ounce weights. All jigs normally have an option for attaching main line to top or bottom. In the case of the Bridgeport it’s suggests rigging up leaving the hook at the bottom. However, I suggest attaching main line to the same end as the hook. This makes for less hook ups on the bottom. And it is a known fact that a larger fish especially when in the triggered bite mode, normally strikes the head first. All you have to do is to drop these jigs on the bottom, reel up a few feet and vertically work your lure in this area. (Work it as close to the bottom as possible.) I suggest jigging with a medium drag and you had better keep a strong grip on that rod, because big bites can happen!
    Please always check for current federal and state regulations. For federal regulations, please visit http://safmc.net/ for state regulations, Pick up a 2020 Georgia Sport Fishing regulations booklet! Most marinas, tackle shops, bait shops, Wal-Mart’s and etc have them! This web site and booklet will certainly keep you up to speed on the dos and don’ts for rest of the 2020 fishing season.

    You Still Have Time To Catch Some 2020 FISH!

    Please know that some of the best inshore fishing for red fish, spotted sea trout, and flounder for the Georgia coast happens during the months of November and December!

    Our inshore captains make it their business to know these fish’s moving and feeding patterns. When it comes to offshore fishing this area is also very good. Fishermen get the opportunity to catch lots of serious size and amounts of bottom fish such as grouper, white grunt, trigger fish, vermilion snapper also known as b-liners, black sea bass, summer trout, trophy red fish, and many others.


    On the freshwater catching side...we have

    My Cuz Captain Mickey Holbrook came to do a little inshore fishing with Captain Garrett and we got to visit!
    My cuz (Captain Judy) and good friends with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters, Mickey Holbrook owner operator of MAD GILLZ Fishing Guide Service a call. (470 262 6035) Captain Mickey is a member on the gangster side of the family! And that is all I am going to say about that!)

    For those of you that want to do a little fresh water fishing I highly suggest giving Captain Mickey Holbrook owner operator of MAD GILLZ Fishing Guide Service a call. (470 262 6035) There are two things that we know for a fact ...and what is that? Our new fresh water connection is Mickey Holbrook! And I approved this message times two!

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    Old School is the Tool!
    Now I have known Bill and fished with him for many years. And I know by saying this I am showing my age. However, sometimes when it comes to catching fish age equals seasoned and also equals lots of darn acquired knowledge! Between the two of us, well we are weighted down with fishing knowledge for sure! In Bill’s case he knows freshwater and saltwater fishing like the back of his hand and any lure he invents or endorses works more than not! So give them a try, but don’t unless you want your best chance at catching fish! Just do it!


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    Thanks for reading! Captain Judy
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