• Savannah Fishing Report - GA

    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 Fishing Report - GA

    Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters did a little fishing this past week! Take a look at the size of this sheepshead, which weighed in at a little over 12 pounds! They caught enough for dinner and released the rest! What does this mean? They are still swimming and hungry! Your turn, your boat or ours! What was Captain Stephen using as bait? Purple back fiddlers! Where did he catch them? In the mouth! Ha Ha, He was fishing over structure located at the artificial reefs found in less than 50 feet of water. The best news is that the winter sheepshead bite is great right now and should last until about mid March! So therefore you got time and so do we...give us a call for more information..912 897 4921 Miss Judy Charters





    Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters is holding up a nice spotted sea trout. And this fish has both of its K-9 teeth. What does this sort of mouth design enable a spotted sea trout to successful do? They grab the live bait, secure it with this set of teeth, spin it around, and then down the hatch it goes. I call this move the “Spiral ham effect, but with live bait!” It sound like the spotted sea trout makes a lot of moves to eat it prey. It does, but this feeding move only takes place in tenths of seconds. So therefore if this bait happens to be on your hook, you have to response quickly and set the hook! Spotted sea trout are fast sight feeders, born killers, and have a fine set of eyes to show them the feeding way!



    Well, what do we have here? Top left hand corner...Joe Natale Scottsdale, Arizona and Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters Savannah Georgia. As Joe was traveling to visit his family for the holiday he decided to make a stop in Savannah, Georgia to do a little inshore fishing! Since Joe had never fished this area according to him the trip with Captain Matt was interesting and enjoyable as well as educational. Joe had never fished with a slip cork or live shrimp! According to Joe’s report that had a great day! And will he be back? Absolutely! Top right hand corner is Joe’s catch! He caught spotted sea trout, spotted sea trout, and a sheepshead! Left bottom corner is Captain Matt showing us a set of fine sheepshead choppers! Sheepshead is known for holding a fiddlers crab and sucking the insides out while still leaving it on the hook. Since the sheepshead loves everything wrapped in a shell this would be the set of teeth that is perfect for going on this sort of feeding escapade. Left hand bottom is Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters at his helm! What was the preferred bait for this fish day? Live shrimp!



    While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Deborah and Richard Wharff Savannah, Georgia had quite a fish catching day!
    This is a beautiful red fish that is definitely sporting its gold winter time colors!





    Inshore Bite!


    The morning water temps this week were cold and are holding at that temperature. However, it didn’t hinder the inshore cold water red fish spotted sea trout, or sheepshead bite. For those fishermen that have a feel for where the red fish are staging and know how to target them under these conditions the bite was solid. Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters had the cold water red fish bite dialed in for sure! For bait, Captain Kevin was using live shrimp which he purchased from Captain Judy’s Bait house and assorted fluke style soft plastics. When using live bait you have to give them time to eat. When pitching artificial you got to pitch them in quietly and retrieve them slowly! Red fish are very sensitive to un-natural splashes and loud deck noises. The bottom line is any sort of noise made good or bad is going to travel longer. Just don’t do it! So therefore it might be the holidays, but dancing on the deck is not going to attract a fish. Basically it is going to run them off!


    Offshore Artificial Reefs

    While fishing at the artificial reefs with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters Preston Andrews caught this nice black drum while using a purple back fiddler as bait. According to this report the black drum are bigger this year than last year’s group! They caught quite a few of these fish while playing the catch and release game! The bite at the artificial reefs located in less than 50 feet of water has been very interesting. If you got fiddlers on your hook and you are anchored over any sort of structure you are going to get one heck of a bite. We caught black drum, flounder, sheepshead, and assorted sized of red fish. Some of the black drum and sheepshead were quite large meaning in the over ten pound range!



    Offshore this past week had been a wet cold and in the early mornings I have had frost covering the deck of my boat....I guess it is winter time for sure. However, it’s not so bad once the old sun comes up. The early morning water temps in Turner Creek have been staying between 51.5 to 52. 5 degrees. Where the sound meets the ocean the temp was about the same, which was darn cold. Once I got about 5 miles offshore ...it was around 53 degrees and when I got to 100 feet it was 64 degrees....I love our area, you leave the dock dressed in several layers and by the time you get to the snapper banks you are in shorts. Now I might add, I still have my rubber boats on.
    The Savannah Snapper Banks certainly did not let the fishermen down this past weekend. The bottom fishing was great. While using squid, small pieces of fresh fillet fish, and ballyhoo sliced like loaf of bread the bite was simply amazing! When using assorted bait such as this, this is where a fishermen knows for sure that a fish has a taste, because switching bottom bait combos works! We caught monster sea bass, foot ball size vermilion, giant trigger fish, white bone porgy, and assorted sizes of small fishes from ruby red lips to sand perch. The bottom line, when you dropped your baited hook is not if you were going to get a bite, but what fish was going to get your bait first. I will admit that the morning bite was slow, but as the day progressed the bite got better and bigger.





    Charlie Ferrell is holding a nice white grunt also known as a white grunt!




    What do we have here? Gerry Heebner is holding up a nice genuine red snapper, which he caught while a small piece of squid. NO, we did not keep this fish, because we don’t have a snapper season! How more did we catch? Over 12, but then again this is an endangered fish!


    Gerry Heebner is holding up a nice black sea bass that he caught while plain old bottom fishing with small pieces of cut fish and squid!

    Ferrell, Osborne, Beisel, and Heebner fishing team caught them some nice bottom fish!

    Dr James Beisel and Captain Kathy Brown of Miss Judy Charters are both sporting a fish catching smile!

    Ferrell, Osborne, Beisel, and Heebner fishing team caught them some nice bottom fish!
    Well, Well our contributing editor has been at it again! Alli DeYoung can fish and then successfully write about it! So here you go....


    It is Christmas in Savannah and the bottom fish are biting!


    Last Sunday we headed out for a great day of fishing at the Savannah Snapper Banks. I could not believe how the seas were so calm, the weather was warm, and the skies were blue; a perfect day to listen to Christmas music. As soon as we pulled the throttles back, it was all hands-on deck to get lines in the water. We made several passes with a few bites, and suddenly the bite turned on. We caught as variety of Black Sea Bass, Vermillion Snapper, Triggerfish, and White Grunt. As quick as the frenzy began, it ended. After a few passes with only a few keepers, we made the decision to move to the Grand Banks. We dropped down and the fish were hungry. We continued loading the box and the sun was dropping fast, but it was hard to leave the fish biting. We had about ten “Last Drops.” We finally made the call to head in as the sun was dropping fast. In total we caught seventy-six pounds of fish. It was a great day to get out before all of the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Merry Christmas!!! Alli DeYoung




    A great Christmas present from the Savannah Snapper Banks.

    A beautiful Atlantic Ocean sunset.
    The Gulf Stream didn’t let those fishermen down either. On the VHF radio I heard plenty of fish catching chatter! It wasn’t just talk I could heard it in the fishermen’s voice...the guys were catching some nice fish! Where bottom fishing in 185 to 225 feet of water fishermen caught 5 pound plus vermilion snapper also known as b-liners, freight training pulling gag grouper, red porgy, and trigger fish. If they happened to be prepared to do a little trolling the Wahoo Yahoo bite and the black fin tuna bite was great!
    The bottom line to this Savannah Snapper Banks and Gulf Stream report is that the seas were flat calm, which enable us fishermen to move with ease to find the fish! And that is just what we all did! It’s time to go fishing!


    Thanks for reading! Happy Holidays! Captain Judy
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