Held Up!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Dave Spencer Savannah, Georgia caught, fought and landed quite a few of these large trophy red fish! Dave held some up, some he gave bear hugs, and the rest he kissed! All fish were unharmed and released back to the wild!
Captain Tommy Williams of Miss Judy Charters had a great day doing a little fun catching! Fish need to beware when Captain Tommy is on the hunt!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Dave Spencer Savannah, Georgia caught, fought and landed quite a few of these large trophy red fish! Dave held some up, some he gave bear hugs, and the rest he kissed! All fish were unharmed and released back to the wild!
On the first fish day I took (Captain Judy and Captain Kathy) took Fred “Twinkle toes” Long Augusta, Georgia, Tony Walker August, Georgia, and Haskell Johnson August, Georgia offshore fishing. All are holding nice size barracuda, which once hooked up put on quite an aerobatic show!
The ABC Supply Company Augusta, Georgia two day fishing team arrived late October to do a little offshore and inshore fishing! And so did the howling winds! But they did not let that stop them from going a-fishing! On the first fish day I took (Captain Judy and Captain Kathy) took Fred “Twinkle toes” Long Augusta, Georgia, Tony Walker August, Georgia, and Haskell Johnson August, Georgia to do a little offshore fishing. The waves and winds caused us much dismay, but we did catch a few fish! Fred, Haskell, and Tony caught some black sea bass, trigger fish, and ocean perch while bottom fishing. After quite a bit of rocking and rolling we decided that maybe trolling might do us a little better. This is where Fred’s ability to do his special Twinkle Toes moves really came into play! While dragging bally rigged with assorted color sea witches we caught four barracuda, which seriously stretched our lines. We lost more fish than we landed due to the rough seas conditions. And none of this was from angler error. It basically was from the perils of the rough sea! Fred and I laughed quite a bit at ourselves as we both tried making way in a straight walking fashion. It was just one of those crazy days on the ocean. I have been fishing with Fred “Twinkle Toes” Long for many years and I was glad that I finally got him back on the ocean with me. And then what happened? It was rough as heck, but we still had a great time! We agreed it was what it was!
From right to left: Kevin Warren North Augusta, SC, Joe Meador Aiken, SC, Blaise Craft Columbia, SC, and Captain Tommy Williams of Miss Judy Charters. What did they catch? Well, I took this picture and found afterwards that the fish on the cleaning table could not be seen. My bad, but they are there!
Knowing it was going to be a little rough part of the supposedly offshore party decided to do a little inshore fishing instead. So therefore Kevin Warren North Augusta, SC, Blaise Craft Columbia, SC, and Joe Meador Aiken, SC decided to stay inshore. Kevin Warren has been part of the fishing team for many years! I always look forward to seeing his special fish catching smile! They fished with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters. They did one heck of a job hooking up, fighting, catching, and releasing some really large trophy red fish! I am so glad that Kevin got to catch some of these big fish! He has been coming down to Savannah and fishing with us for many years! And he said, “This was the best big fish catching trip that he has ever been on! Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters showed them the way!
On day two, of course the winds were still howling! The plan was for the team to do a little inshore fishing. The targeted species was slots reds, spotted sea trout, flounder, and black drum. Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters took Fred “Twinkle toes” Long Augusta, Georgia and Haskell Johnson August, Georgia to do a little windy inshore fishing! And Captain Tommy Williams of Miss Judy Charters took Kevin Warren North Augusta, SC, Blaise Craft Columbia, SC, and Joe Meador Aiken, SC on an inshore light tackle trip. All in all everyone did pretty good once you factor in the weather handed. The best news was I got to see my old fishing friends again! And I hope to see them all again for the 2019 fishing season!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Blaise Craft Columbia, SC caught, fought and released this nice trophy red fish!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Kevin Warren North Augusta, SC caught this large trophy red fish! What is Kevin sporting? A large trophy red fish smile! And it looks good on him too! I told you Kevin had a great fishing catching smile!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Joe Meador Aiken, SC landed this very nice trophy red fish!
Captain Garrett Ross and Kevin Warren North August, SC are both sporting big trophy red fish smiles! Captain Garrett showed him the way!
Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters took Fred “Twinkle toes” Long Augusta, Georgia and Haskell Johnson August, Georgia on an inshore light tackle catching affair! It was red fish kind of a keeping day!
Haskell Johnson August, Georgia caught this nice slot red fish! Captain Matt showed him the way! And what was Haskell having for dinner? Red fish fillets on the grill!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Jeremy Brast (red) Richmond Hill GA and Tyler Owens (Navy) Pooler GA had a fish catching blast! What does all this boil down too? They kept some and released some really big red fish!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Jeremy Brast Richmond Hill GA caught this nice trophy red fish!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Tyler Owens Pooler GA caught, fought, and released this nice trophy red fish!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Matthew Koontz Springfield GA caught some really nice red fish! Yep, they caught some, kept some, and some they released! Are they coming back? Oh, yeah!
From right to left: Mac Roberts Macon GA Captain Kevin Rose Miss Judy Charters, Jeff Koontz Everett PA (blue) and Matthew Koontz Springfield GA
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters this family fishing team had one of those grand catching, keeping, and releasing days! According to the story told the slot reds on the cleaning table were 2:31 PM fish! I asked, why? Well, according to the team, Captain Kevin said, “The bite will be light until around 2:30 PM!” And then it happened just like Captain Kevin said! And it was on! And it was fast and furious!
Some He Kissed!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Dave Spencer Savannah, Georgia caught, fought and landed quite a few of these large trophy red fish! Dave held some up, some he gave bear hugs, and the rest he kissed! All fish were unharmed and released back to the wild!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Mike Stretch Atlanta, Georgia caught this nice triple tail! A very nice fish and tasty too!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Andrew Ward caught this nice soon to be released trophy red fish! Leslie Hodnett and her dad Rich are cheering him on!
Young fish catching smiles are the best! Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters took his two daughters Stella and Chyler inshore fishing! They invited fish catching Merit Meyers as their guest!
Merit Meyers is showing us what a real big fish really looks like! Who showed him the catching way? Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters!
Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters is holding a nice bonnet head that his daughter Stella just caught! No shark steaks tonight! This fish was caught fought and released back to the while!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters George Meyers caught this nice trophy red fish! Did it put up a serious fight? Heck yeah!
Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters while fly fishing caught his first triple tail on the fly!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Mike Stretch Atlanta, Georgia caught this nice triple tail!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Peter Orendorf and Mary Britt Burke had a great fish catching time!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Mary Britt Burke Thunderbolt, Georgia had a great fish catching time!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Peter Orendorf Thunderbolt, Georgia had a great fish catching time!
Captain Tommy Williams of Miss Judy Charter caught this large toad fish while he was doing a little bottom fishing in the river! This fish has several names oyster toad and maw-in-law fish! My father used to skin them, batter, fry, and then serve to our guests! Heck, they loved it! Just goes to show you when alcohol is possibly involved guests will eat just about anything!
The Hulk Lives!
In spite of everything that we have been told over the years the Hulk still lives. Now here’s the thing, he only comes out once in a while. This photo was taken in 2015 by an unnamed source. Well, this makes almost three years since we have seen him at the green stage. Who knows maybe for Halloween 2018 The Hulk will return!
Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or Not!
Can’t say for sure who exactly this is! However, the lady on the right might have been posing as a witch at one time! You know how those witches are! Happy Halloween!
Halloween 1958 Style
My father always took me out for Halloween so that I could collect my annual brown bag of candy. I always dressed up and it was a lot of fun. I tried everything from homemade costumes to the store bought ones. They all seemed to do the trick. However there was this one particular store brought costume that I will never forget. My father saw a cat costume and he brought it home. I was about 7 years old at the time, so therefore dressing up like a cat wasn’t such a bad idea, at least until daddy made certain alterations to the costume. The tail of the cat costume simply just hung there. Daddy checked it out and found that he could stuff my tail with some of the white so-called cotton that he used for caulking repairs on his wooden boats. I didn’t care all I was thinking about was all of the candy that I was going to get and how much I could eat in one night. After stuffing the tail with the so-called cotton he created a big problem. The tail was too heavy so it just fell to the ground. Now I had a cattail that was 3 dimensional, but it wouldn’t stand on its own. I could tell that Daddy was in a mood or maybe he had a few cocktails. Now he broke out the fishing line. His plan was to tie one end to the tail and the other end to the back of my costume, which he did in a fast fashion. I now had me a state of the art moving cattail that actually swayed with my walk. (Remember the lion’s tail in the Wizard of Oz) I was ready to go “Trick a Treating” in my now daddy designer store bought costume.
Our first stop was great! I got lots of compliments on my costumes and plenty of candy. I really made a haul. Daddy even got a beverage to go. As the evening went on my brown bag got heavier. According to Daddy my “Trick a Treating” was just about over, which wasn’t good news, but heck I was a little tired from all of the walking with my tail swaying. We must have visited at least 10 houses. Our last stop had the noise of a barking dog in the background. I was a little afraid of dogs, due to the fact that one of our neighbor’s dog had bitten me once before. I approached the door with caution. The dog was really barking at this point. When the door opened I saw the dog, which didn’t appear to be that large, but it sure had a big mouth. Somehow after the owner told me that the dog didn’t bite it escaped heading right for me. (I’m sure I looked like a small deer in headlights!) Of course I did what any seven year old dressed like a cat would do I ran with tail swinging in tow. The dog lunged and became attached to my tail. This as you can imagine slowed me down a bit. I could see my father running toward me, but it seemed as though he was in slow motion. At this point the tail ripped off, but unfortunately the fishing line didn’t break. So now I had the latched dog in tow. Things couldn’t get much worst. I had dropped my brown bag and now had a dog attached to my tail. I finally met up with my father and he immediately picked me up leaving the small dog still hanging. The dog owner apologized as he removed the dog from my tail. The rest of the story is easily figured out, we went home. However the candy haul for this particular house was unbelievable. I guess the bottom line is that you pay for what you get. In this case a little entertainment goes a long way. The moral of this story is a simple one. “So-called cotton was made to stuff only into the cracks of wooden boats and fishing line is made for fishing not tail tying. Any alterations can certainly change the course of an evening.”
Captain Kathy Brown is having a little Halloween fun with Chuckey’s Cousin Dickey! What does Dickey like to eat? Lots of noses, eyes, fingers, lips, and ears! Watch out Captain Kathy!
No Tricks or No treats just some darn good exotic can goods!
Way back in the good old days while on the pickle isle in Lester Claxton’s Wilmington Island grocery store The Piggly Wiggly I was approached by an older women. She asked, “Are you Captain Sherman Helmey’s child?” I replied, “Yes!” And then she said, “I have a funny story to tell you! While I was taking my grand children Trick a Treating last night I stopped by your father’s house to let my grand’s knock on his door. Your father answered with a smile on his face. I could tell he was complimenting the children on their costumes. I watched as he carefully dropped candy in their bags. I heard them thank him and watched as they came down the steps with their heavy bags. Heck I thought, what did Captain Helmey give them? Must have been all of his candy? Well, as it turned out your father didn’t have any candy. Apparently he had eaten it or forgot to purchase it. However, my grandchildren did not walk away empty handed. As soon as they got back to the car they showed me their unusual haul while sporting big smiles. He had dropped 2 cans of Vienna sausage and sardines in each bag. Since the kids weren’t ever allowed to eat such stuff, this gift was as popular as the candy! Heck, one child remarked, its exotic food. Now, where in the world they got that word from I will never know! And I just wanted you to know that your father was a hit with my grandchildren!”
I am so happy that her grands got the good stuff, because I had already been told by another lady that her children had gotten a can of corn and stewed tomatoes. The fact of the matter is she was serving corn and tomatoes for dinner! Now you know for sure that Halloween wasn’t just about getting dressed up at my house it meant much much more! So therefore, if you run out of candy, just open up your kitchen cabinets, and pick out some exotic can goods! Because we already know from past experiences this can work to someone’s advantage! Happy Halloween!
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Captain Judy
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