• Savannah Saltwater Fishing Report - GA

    Miss Judy Charters
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  • 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 Saltwater Fishing Report - GA

    Inshore bite is good, but you have to work for it…the best baits are still going to be live shrimp..

    Plain old bottom fishing in the sound with Captain Pops!


    Captain Pops Howell and Captain Kathy Brown are sporting a big fish catching smile. While in the bottom fishing mode Captain Pops caught this nice Atlantic Sharpnose shark. Once arriving to our designated fishing spot, we baited our hooks, dropped them, hooked up a fish, took the fish off, baited our hooks dropped them hooked up a fish, repeat, and repeat! And this is not just a story it’s a fish catching story! This is the kind of fishing that is fun and not so frustrating! It’s simple and normally the outcome is much better since there is not only catching, but keeping also. Our inshore captains have been catching whiting, summer trout, flounder, stingray, and sharks while plain old bottom fishing in the sound. For fish with smaller mouths I suggest small pieces of dead/season shrimp. And the old saying the bigger the bait the bigger the fish comes into play when targeting the larger sharks.

    What is seasoned shrimp? And where do I get it?




    To obtain seasoned shrimp quality you must cut it into some pieces and let it air dry. If the sun is shining bright on your bait board it will even be better. Dried shrimp with or without the shell makes for great smelly bait especially after it is reintroduced back into the water. When fishing with live bait I suggest keeping all parts, pieces, and any dead ones in the live well for later fishing adventures! The best way to keep your leftover shrimp is to drop them into an empty water bottle, which makes for a freezer ready situation. No mess, no smell, and you won’t get in any trouble with the freezer troll! The fact of the matter is empty water bottles make for any kind of great bait keepers from cut fish to cut squid. Whatever you do don’t forget to wash water bottle after filling it with bait.

    Artificial Reefs

    The bottom fishing is slow for keeping, but fun for sport. The means you might not keep a lot of fish, but the lighter the tackle used the more action! Top water fish have arrived. We have been catching Spanish and king mackerel. There are lots of 23 inch king mackerel mixed in with the schools of Spanish.


    Savannah snapper Banks…genuine red snapper season dates…we have more days to catch and keep this fish…

    Genuine Red Snapper Keeping Time
    Dates have been set!
    http://www.safmc.net/

    Recreational
    The recreational 2014 catch limit is set at 22,576 fish. The recreational fishing season will open for two weekends made up of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and one weekend of Friday and Saturday. The dates and times that the recreational red snapper season will be open are listed in the table below. During the open recreational season, the bag limit is one fish per person per day and there is no minimum size limit for red snapper.

    Recreational opening and closing times

    Recreational Opening Date/Time Recreational Closure Date/Time
    Weekend 1 Friday, July 11 (at 12:01 a.m.) Monday, July 14 (at 12:01 a.m.)
    Weekend 2 Friday, July 18 (at 12:01 a.m.) Monday, July 21 (at 12:01 a.m.)
    Weekend 3 Friday, July 25 (at 12:01 a.m.) Sunday, July 27 (at 12:01 a.m.)
    For additional information regarding the South Atlantic red snapper annual catch limits and recreational season length projection report, please visit: http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sustainabl...rojections.pdf. For more information, refer to the Frequently Asked Questions.


    Savannah Snapper Banks
    The Grouper Bite has started!



    Travis Durham along with Captain Kathy Brown is showing off their happy fish catching smiles. On our first drop Travis hooked this scamp grouper up while plain old bottom fishing with live cigar minnow and cut squid. It was a beauty for sure. However, you know the old saying, “There is always a bigger fish in the sea!” After Travis showed us the way his son, Brad Durham took his suggestion and ran with it..

    Brad’s one heck of a nice scamp!



    Brad Durham caught a big one for sure! After his father Travis showed us the way..Brad landed this nice scamp grouper!


    It’s Miller Time!!



    Once David Miller hooked this big fish up he said, “It’s a red snapper!” And he was very catching right! In the fish catching world when you guess the fish hooked up before bringing it to the surface is called “Calling the haul!” In David’s case he was right on the money. David’s son Christopher is holding up his just caught genuine red snapper. After this picture was taken Christopher deflated the fish’s swim bladder, put it in the water, and we all watched as it headed straight back down to the bottom..

    The bottom fishing has been great…for vermilion snapper, black sea bass, grouper, and other bottom bites…also red snapper season is going to be longer this year… Go to this web site for more details of red snapper opening …YAHOO


    Blue water…
    Still catching Mahi Mahi, Wahoo, and black fin tuna…still time to go!!

    Big Blue Water Fish Catching Report!
    With a comfortable lead of 119 pounds I think Brendin Page’s pending new Georgia state sword fish record is shoe-in!



    From left to right: Zane Page, Kent Phillips, Johnny Gold, Brendin Page
    Blue water state record breaking fishing team
    Zane Page, Kent Phillips, Johnny Gold, Brendin Page


    Kent Phillip, SLON-EZ tells the tale so well!! Here’s the fish catching state record breaking history story!

    We made another trip offshore over the weekend and ran into something big. We were aboard the SLO-N-EZ and the crew consisted of myself Kent Phillips, Johnny Gold, Brendin Page, and Zane Page. We left out of Wassaw sound Friday afternoon around 5. We arrived at the sword grounds a little after dark about 90 miles out. We did our first drift in 1400 ft and had no action. We decided to run a little bit deeper for our second drift. Right around midnight one the of the clickers went off for just a second. Zane and Brendin Page quickly grabbed two of the rods and began to crank not sure exactly which rod it was. We looked down in the water to see a large swordfish swimming up from the dark into our underwater lights. Right about that time Brendin caught up with him and the reel began to scream. Swordfish on! He quickly ran back down to the deep. After about 45 minutes Brendin got him close to the boat where we saw him again. Only to take back off to the deep where he held for some time in the thermocline.

    With around 20 pounds of drag on the fish Brendin began to tire. Brendin clipped two rod leashes to the reel and we tied them around his back to make a harness. After an hour and a half we had the fish back in the light. He swam under the boat multiple times and as he got got close enough he started swimming at the motors. It didn't take us long to soon have the motors off and trimmed up. As Brendin got to the swivel I grabbed the leader and began to pull him up. He made a last ditch effort and swam back under the boat and popped up on the other side. I then pulled him up for Zane to put the gaff in him followed by Johnny Gold. Brendin and I quickly grabbed the bill and pulled him in. We did one more drift with no luck and headed back into the ledge around 5am for some morning action.

    The sun came up but the bite was slow on the troll. A lot of good weedlines but, we couldn't get on the fish. We picked up a couple mahi the biggest being 28 pounds. Fortunately , we had some friends on the water and X-TA-SEA gave us some ice. We trolled north towards the deli and decided to call it a day and headed in around 1pm.

    We then took the fish to Russo's seafood where Charlie Russo was kind enough to let us weigh the fish on his certified scale. The fish weighed in at 205 pounds and is a pending state record with Brendin Page being the angler. The previous record was 86 pounds set by W.H. Lippitt in 1980.
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