While fly fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Tom Duntemann Virginia Beach, VA caught this nice flounder! As it turns out it made a great dinner special for Captain Kevin, which by the way is a very good cook! This is what happens when the fisherman a catching doesn’t want to partake in any of the eating!
While fly fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Mark Lawson Chesapeake, VA caught a nice red fish!
Please meet Eamonn Rafferty age 5 of Savannah Georgia and Captain Judy holding his just caught super sized whiting! I took Eamonn and his family out to Wassaw sound to do a little bottom fishing. When 5 year old Eamonn arrived, as you might have already guessed, he had his rod in hand. And he also was wearing his Spiderman life jacket vest! The fact of the matter is the Spiderman special rod/reel combo with still in the wrapper. So Eamonn and I carefully removed it. We threaded the line through the rods eyes and tied on a single hook bottom rig. We went through the basic Spiderman rod/reel operations and Eamonn started his fishing day with a smile! Since I had never used the Spiderman special type of set up it also was a learning experience for me! Don’t worry Eamonn seemed to know more about how it worked than I did. There weren’t a lot of bells and whistles it so reminded me of my old Zebco 202! As I did over some 55 years ago, all Eamonn had to do was too press the release button, drop his to the bottom, and wait for a hit. Eamonn was the most patience fisherman I have seen in a long time. The first hit broke off his line and he didn’t even get upset. Believe me I have seen grown fishermen throw all kinds of different degree fits over this. Not Eamonn, we just re-rigged, and back to fishing he went! What did he catch? Whitings, croakers, and juvenile bonnet head sharks. For the entire trip, Eamonn had his bait in the water! He did ask that we release all of his fish! What do we have here? A true fish catching releasing young fisherman! Don’t I wish they were all like Eamonn?
Yes folks, back in the day, this was the ever popular ZEBCO 202! It was simple and didn’t have a complicated drag system. All you have to do was cast it and you looked like a pro every time! And Why? No birds or eagle nest aka line tangles!
Artificial Reefs
While plain old bottom fishing at the artificial this “wedding party to be” had a catching blast. And caught fish some really interesting fish! Heck, some were even picked up at the dock!
on the front row with the great shorts is Brian Levens Harlem GA holding black sea bass and hog nose! I told him that, if I ran out of bait, we could always use his shorts! Back row Left to right: Jason Holley Rincon, GA holding amberjack, Mark Boiter Harlem GA holding triggerfish, Marcus Bruner Newnan Ga black sea bass, Rusty James, Harlem GA holding black sea bass, Nick Blankenbeckler Grovetown Ga holding trigger fish, Russ Winter Statesboro GA holding amberjack
Take a look at this large genuine red snapper head!
The groom to be, Rusty James Harlem, Georgia hooked up and landed this nice genuine red snapper. Now I know that he is only holding the head section, but he did indeed at first have the whole fish on. While reeling in with none of us knowing exactly what he had hooked up, his line went limp for a second, then whatever was on the end made a strong serious short run, and then it stop. At this point Rusty started reeling in the leftovers, which was a dead head weight. As soon as he got this genuine red snapper to the boat we were all amazed at the size of this fish’s head! So now here is the rub, this fish was caught in less than 60 feet of water on a very small piece of cut squid. It was a grand fighter at least until a large shark decided to eat it. I call this a lollipop bite! What is a lollipop bite? My definition...it is where a large fish, in this case a shark inhales a fish, such as this, as far in its mouth as it can and then it just bites it. In this case, it made a clean bite right behind this genuine red snapper’s head! As you know, even if this genuine red snapper had been brought to the boat intact, we would have had to still release him, because due to federal regulations, we cannot keep red snapper. Heck, it is against the law! Now for the shark, it is still an open season! It certainly doesn’t seem fair to the fisherman or the genuine red snapper! The only winner here is the shark! And had we been able to ever just keep the head what a find fish head soup it would have made! We might have also caught “who done it!” see picture below!
A tiger by the tail! It is not a tiger shark, but it might have acted like one!
Well, we don’t know for sure, but there is a chance that this large shark has a headless genuine red snapper in its stomach! How did we get this shark to the boat? It was hooked by the tail! Was it released unharmed? Yes Is it still swimming in these local waters? Most likely as long as the food source last! No swimming here today! The person taking this photo did a great job; I had just released this shark! It doesn’t take but seconds for them to disappear into the abyss.
Savannah Snapper Banks
From Left to right: Conrad Fonseca, Eric Davenport, Alli DeYoung, And Clinton
Fonseca. (Dan DeYoung was playing picture taker) What did they catch? Well, let’s see, vermilion snapper, black sea bass, and trigger fish! What did they release? Amberjack and genuine red snapper! What did they use for bait? Small pieces of cut squid and fish! A big bottom fishing Congratulations goes out to all!
My much younger twin, Alli DeYoung, Savannah, Georgia is fighting a big one for sure!
Alli DeYoung, Captain Judy’s much, much younger twin is holding up a nice amberjack that she caught, fought, and released back to the wild!
Alli DeYoung is holding up a nice black sea bass, which she caught while bottom fishing at the Savannah Snapper banks. Did you know that the black sea bass is born a female and then later in its life cycle changes into a male? What do we have here? A used to be female black sea bass that has already changed into a male! Now you know from a writer’s stand point and with all that is going on in the world at this time, this could become another very interesting story, but it would not be about fishing! Congratulations to Alli nice black fish!
Karen East Senoia, Georgia is holding a nice white grunt that she caught while bottom fishing with a small piece of squid. Captain Kathy is assisting! White grunts are also called hog nose snapper. My father always told me that when it came to seafood groceries “Grits and Grunts” was the plate that put Florida on the map!
A ray for the day!
While heading out in the early morning I got this picture of a ray feeding on the surface. Whatever it was chasing was giving it a run for its money. In other words this ray was working for it breakfast for sure!
Clint East holding a nice amberjack and his father Larry Senoia, Georgia is holding his just caught genuine red snapper! I am assisting! Why are we all leaning so? Because it was so darn rough!
Karen aka “Karo” East Senoia, Georgia hooked a big one and this big shark did put up a strong fight. She got it to the boat several times. This is a picture of this shark’s third pass! Yes, it is still swimming and hungry!
Clint East Senoia, Georgia is holding his just caught soon to be released genuine red snapper!
Captain Kathy Brown is showing a big thumbs up while standing next to Clint East Senoia, Georgia. Clint is holding up a just caught little tunny. How did he catch it? We were pulling a sea witch rigged with a medium ballyhoo and this fish couldn’t resist it! My father always said, “You will catch more fish out of the water if you always have some sort of lure in it!”
Please meet the Walsh Honda fishing team Todd Murphy, Chris Watson, Ernest Howard, Don Griffis, James Crowe, and Derek Lewis...all from Macon, Georgia, all holding amberjacks! and Captain Kathy Brown!
Larry East of Senoia, Georgia just caught this nice trigger fish that Captain Kathy is holding. His wife, Karen is watching from the stern of the Miss Judy Too!
Please meet Fishing Team East! Larry East, his wife Karen, and their son Clint all from Senoia, Georgia had quite a fishing catching day. Yes it was rough, but they all still fished and caught. They caught black sea bass, trigger fish, white grunt, ocean perch, vermilion snapper, and little tunny. They released many hard to find genuine red snappers and large reefs sharks. All and all it was a very active fish catching day!
Larry and Karen own a farm in Senoia and believe it or not, but they film the TV series “Walking Dead” on/around their property. Now, when their farm is not being lease to the Walking Dead the East family offers fox hunting trips. They also raise horses as well as other farm animals, grow their own food, and eat what they hunt. They are very interesting family self sufficient. Well, when and if food shortages ever happen, I know where I am headed!
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