This picture shows in better detail the shape of a hammerhead shark’s head. We do not see nor catch many of these type sharks in the sound or the ocean. They are by far the one of our strangest looking sharks caught in this area.
Happy Birthday Andrew! While inshore fishing with Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters on his birthday Andrew Cree caught this nice trophy red fish! Now I must bring attention to two things! First the fish is happy because he is going to be released! And secondly Andrew is sporting that wonderful fish catching smile! Allison Hit his fishing friend and Captain Kevin showed him the way!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Andrew Cree’s fishing friend Allison Hit (both from Savannah, Georgia) hooked up this alligator! It was released unharmed! What does this mean? No makings for shoes or pocketbooks on this fish day!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Stellan Carroll (Savannah) had great time fishing with his father Sam and his grandfather Sam! Who caught the biggest fish? Stellan! Who released the most fish? Stellan! Who caught the most fish? Stellan! Now you know the rest of this fish catching story!
Please meet the Crute fishing team! (Jim Kim and Devin Savannah Zach Crute US NAVY) Who showed them the way? Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Crute fishing team had a wonderful day!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Aaron Hice Tennessee and Travis Ledford Tennessee’s caught some really nice fish! This is what they kept and the rest were released back to the wild!
Artificial Reefs
Captain Kathy Brown of Miss Judy Charters is holding up a nice mackerel that could not pass up the workings of the 31/2 silver drone spoon. This spoon when troll about 6 knots puts on quite a show. Who does it imitate? Bait fish that are shinny that are making way in a funny manner. This is one fish that is lured in by shinny things. However, if they are acting too strange and not life like the strike moment is gone. The drone spoon produces signature moves as it is pulled through the water. When purchasing this spoon I suggest always making sure that they are two rings not just one. The second ring is the one that make the signature moves happen. Now, if you have spoons that don’t have the second ring I suggest adding one! It is easy to do, get out your split ring kit, and just do it!
Double rings!
So far this 2018 season we have had some pretty good Spanish mackerel catches. However, it seems we have had to do a little trolling tricking to get this biting job done! Before the month of August you don’t get to see a lot of these fish getting air! (Jumping out of the water!) According to my father, Spanish don’t start jumping until about first week in August. And there is more....They only jumped to get rid of their eggs. Back in the old days, they really started jumping a lot during this time.
Before the month of August and as early as April these fish are here, but you don’t see them. Trolling or pitching and letting spoon sink over structure located in less than 60 feet of water should yield you some action. Of course light tackle is the key to get the most bite attention from these fish! I called it the Twenties! Why? I like using 20 pound test main line and 20 pound test leaders. However, if you start to lose spoons I suggest up scaling to 30 pound test leader. However, seemly you do catch more Spanish on 20 than you do 30 pound test.
In the charters business we use #1, #2, and #3 planers. Why? It gets the spoons to the right feeding depth. And believe me when trolling in 45 feet of water it is nice to be fishing with some Like Captain Ken or Captain Deidra or Captain Ryan so that I can call and ask, “What size planners are working?” It certainly does eliminate a lot of trial and error! Most of us use 20 to 25 to 30 pound test monofilament leader. (Plain old monofilament line) And we all concur that going with about 15 to 20 feet of leader between the back of the planer to the spoon. Concurring in our fish catching game is a good thing!
Let’s talk about the right spoon to use! It‘s most likely the oldest, most used, and proven by the fish by the attention it gets..The Clark Spoon is number one! Now I am not saying that no other spoons/baits will work, because they will. However, if you have to purchase get yourself some Clark Spoons. The size that works for us is 0 and 00 size. These lures come in many sizes. Pick one!
Captain Alan Collins of Miss Judy Charters found these “old school” lures in his father’s old tackle box. He handed me a box that had these two old Spanish mackerel type spoon in each one. As you can see the spoon comes with small treble hook in tow. What does this mean? Just about every time you get a hit you get hooked up! One of the boxes had a line hanging out of it. This is when I realized that Mr. Collins added his own red ball, which really made this spoon a mackerel attractor a big time catcher hookup!
Alli-Cat DeYoung of Savannah, Georgia is holding up a very nice king mackerel! She caught this king while fishing with her father Dan. While using live menhaden for bait rigged on light tackle this fish didn’t make a pass, it took the bait! Back in the real old days, we had a nickname for king mackerel we called them “Brown Eyes!” It seemed the bigger the fish the browner the eyes! It is a known fact that the bigger a king mackerel get the more it sees with those large brown eyes. According to old school tactics, if a large kings even looked at your bait and didn’t seen anything suspicion you couldn’t stop it from making a solid hit. We would use small Spanish mackerel for bait. This bait didn’t have to be alive it just had to have that newly caught mackerel shine! To keep our bait shinny we used to lay them on ice and never in icy water. How did we accomplish this? Never put the plug in the cooler!
Savannah Snapper Banks
While offshore fishing with Captain Judy and Captain Kathy Jamee Barnard and her daughter Angel had one heck of a catching time! Jamee is holding Angel just caught fought and landed gag grouper! I must add it was a family affair that got this catching job done! Much more next week!
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