• 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

    While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters Linh Do (visiting Gulf Stream with Chris Disante) had a wonderful catching releasing time! Linh is holding a nice Spanish mackerel that was released as soon as the picture was taken! Yep, it still growing!




    While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters Linh Do (visiting Gulf Stream with Chris Disante) caught, fought, and released this nice black drum! Yep, this fish put up quite a fight on light tackle. I guess you could say and I am “It was a line stretching event from start to landing finish!”

    While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters Linh Do (visiting Gulf Stream with Chris Disante) is holding a nice little over 23 inch spotted sea trout, which was released back to the wild. Since this fish is back a swimming it is back a growing! Maybe by next week it will make the almost 24 inch mark! Your ruler or mine?



    While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Brett Parker Savannah, Georgia had quite an inshore catching day! This is what was kept for dinner the rest was released!



    While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Kerry Parker Savannah Georgia is holding a nice red fish! Yep, this fish got its picture taken, was a star for the moment, and is now still swimming! When a fisherman releases his fish back to the wild it insures better catching options for the future!

    While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters The Parker Men... Kerry Parker his father Brett Parker and his brother Steven (all from Savannah) had a grand catching time. Steven is holding a nice spotted sea trout that was released back to the wild!



    While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Brett Parker Savannah is holding a nice spotted sea trout, which he caught while pitching Z-Man trout trick lures.

    Z-Man swimming trout trick lure! And what is the color of the week that Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters used! Root Beer chartreuse tail rigged on a ¼ black jig head!

    While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Steven Parker his brother Kerry and his father Brett all from Savannah had a great fish day and some badly needed bonding to boot!

    While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Carl Coker Jr (and his wife Elise) visiting from Beaver Falls PA had one heck of a catching landing and releasing back to the wild time!

    While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Elise Coker (and her husband Carl) visiting from Beaver Falls PA had one heck of a catching landing and releasing back to the wild time! Elise is holding a juvenile gag grouper, which was caught, fought, and released while fishing with live shrimp on the bottom!




    While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Carl Coker Jr (and his wife Elise) visiting from Beaver Falls PA had one heck of a fun catching time! Carl is holding a nice flounder, which is the fixing for a fine fresh dinner of crispy scored flounder! I bet there was a side order of some sort of fruit chutney involved!



    While doing a little beachfront fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters Carl Coker Jr and Elise Beaver Falls PA caught a little of everything. Here’s a nice sheepshead that simply could not pass up Carl’s live shrimp bait offering! Captain Stephen confessed he was using live shrimp as bait. And of course I had to ask how he was presenting this bait? Well, it seems he was using traditional adjustable cork style set up. He adjusted the cork so that the bait would be fished about 1 foot off the bottom. According to Stephen this presentation allowed the live shrimp to be carried with the current. This situation is easy to explain and it goes like this: Bait, which is suspended by the cork about a foot off the bottom, is moved slowly by the current. So therefore if the fish aren’t moving your bait is! Curve side service!

    While Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charters was cleaning the nice spotted sea trout he found this fully intact bait in the fish’s gullet. Two questions come to mind! Firstly, how did this trout grab this bait? And secondly how the heck did it swallow it? This bait definitely does not match this fish’s hatch! However, this is exactly where it came from, which is the other side of the hatch!



    David Archer Atlanta, Georgia, Chris Finke Roswell Georgia, better known on this trip as the Oreo Man!” (Read below!) Keith Rothwell Roswell, Georgia better known as “The Rock!” Tim Sullivan Los Angeles California better known as “The Counselor” Justin Tracy Atlanta, Georgia Anthony Spaduzzi Omaha better known as “Nebraska” Matt Bearden Atlanta, Georgia And the far back holding giving her thumbs up is Captain Kathy Brown and last on the right end is Alli “The Kid” DeYoung both of Miss Judy Charters

    While trolling assorted color sea witches rigged with medium size ballyhoo threaded on a three hook rig. The shown above fishing party had some pretty strong fishing action! The group was staying at “The Counselor’s beach house on Tybee! It was the groups 20 to 25 year Georgia Tech reunion! And since I just attended my 50th year high school reunion I started calling them “my children!” And then there was some more names calling! Why?


    Red Headed Barracuda!


    When did name calling just about start...It all started with “Nebraska” aka Anthony caught a nice barracuda with some scatted patches of red hair. After bringing this to everyone’s attention names started flying! And after that as if a timer was set each fisherman on board hooked up, fought, and landed their fish. Then out of the blue Chris Finke said, “Have you noticed that every time I eat an Oreo we get a fish on?” So when the bite slowed a bit, unknowingly to us at the time “Oreo Man” would eat a cookie. And believe me when he didn’t and once again the bite slowed I ask him to eat a cookie! Believe it or not, but, it did work!


    Superstitious help fishermen catch fish?


    Fishermen are superstitious and we all have done some pretty interesting things in order to insure what we think will help us catch a fish. There is that “No Bananas” on a boat thing! Which I don’t believe in, but I don’t like taking the dip net or gaff out too early when fighting a fish! Same Same same..What’s yours?



    Two thumbs up and a nice king mackerel!
    Alli “The Kid” DeYoung, Tim Sullivan Los Angeles, California aka “Counselor” and Captain Kathy Brown are all sporting some grand just caught fish catching smiles! Believe it or not, but Tim was basically raised in Savannah, Georgia and then he decided to make the big move just like they did in the real old days! He headed west as far as he would go and now he along with his family resides in Los Angeles! As soon as I met him I started calling him “The Counselor!”


    Artifical Reefs
    I will be honest..the top water bite at the arficial reefs in less and in more than 50 feet of water can be good one day and bad the next! Spanish mackerel, king mackerel and barracuda is the main catching affair. (Don’t forget the cobia) When targeting Spanish I suggest pulling Clark spoons or spitching small shinny lures. Live linning for kings or barracuda is a good time to be had by all. The best baits for these fish are going to be gunts, ring tail perch, and just caught shinny live spanish mackerel.


    And if live linning is something you don’t preferred the larger fish love to hit a pulled Drone spoon! (3 ½ inch size is the fish getter for this area) How fast do you pull a Drone spoon? I like to starte at about 5 to 6 knots or until it start working the tip of the rod. When you are trolling the right speed your Drone spoon will cause your rod to bounce at the very tip. I am pulling my Drone using a 30 feet leader behind a #3 planner (3 inch). My 30 foot leader is normally made from 80 to 100 pound test monfilament line. I always cut my leader in half and tie in a 90/100 pound test barrel swivel. So here the break down: #3 Planer with 100 pound test snap swivel, 30 feet of 80/100 pound test monfilament line with 80/100 pound test swivel in the middle, and then I bacically tie on the Drone spoon driectly to this leader. Almost forgot to mention, what color Drone spoon? Silver on silver or silver with silver flash or blue with silver flash or just use the color that your prefer. I like silver on silver! Why? It old school and that is all we had to use back in the old days! So I go with what I know!


    The bottom fishing in these areas is good, great when using light tackle, (small hooks and bait) and small jigs. However, prepare yourself for being over whelmed with 90 % small fish and 10% keeper sizes. What this heck, fishing on the bottom in this situation with a Hopkins lure or or any sort of naked lead jig head with get you some pretty good rod pulling action! Just act like a kid and every time you pull in a fish no matter the size just SMILE!


    It is flounder time possible catching time! Small live fish, fished on the bottom is a great way to get this bite going. Don’t forget your dip net or your camera!




    While offshore fishing with Captain Ryan Howard and Mac Richards (both Miss Judy Charters) Everett Lee, Earl Driggers holding a big barracuda, Rhonda Waters, Melinda Lee, Sandy and Kelly King holding big barracuda. (Everyone is from Waycross, Georgia) These fish as well as quite a few more were caught while trolling at the artificial reefs located in less than 50 feet of water! This fishing team caught quite a few other smaller barracuda! These other fish would have been considered large barracuda at least until these two big ones were caught! Rhonda Waters caught the first big cuda and Sandy King caught the other one. These fishing girls did great reeling job! Congratulations!


    While taking this picture I asked the group to give me their serious look! I think Earl was the only one that heard me ask!


    Savannah Snapper Banks
    If you are looking to do a whole lot of bottom fishing, catch some really nice big fish (keeper or not) and have a lot of action I suggest making taking a boat ride to the Savannah Snapper Banks. Your possibilities for catching as well as keeping are very good! Why? Because fishing on the bottom with cut squid and cut fish is a lot of fun! Why? You really never know what you might might catch! But we have been catching trigger fish, black sea bass, vermilion snapper, porgy (white bone, red, and knobbed porgy) white grunts, almaco jacks, banned rudder fish, grouper, cubera snapper, amberjack, large almaco jacks, and geniune red snapper. (Geniune red snapper season is not open at this time. However, there are plenty of fish to catch and keep from the sea!)


    The top water bite for king mackerel has been very good with us catching some fish in the 40 plus pound range better known as SMOKERS! Why? They do smoke that line when they hit your bait. Best baits are going to be anything alive such as vermilion snapper, blue runners, cigar minnows, ocean menhaden, Spanish sardines, tomtates, pinfish, and any other small shinny live baits. As far as dead I suggest purchasing a 12 pack of medium shinny ballyhoo. Best places to fish this bait is over live bottom, rigged on a light tackle rig, and fished about 20 feet from surface. My rule is to cast bait out and let it fall into in the water column until I can’t see any longer. I am always once placed, reeling my bait up until I can see it, and then dropping it back until I can not. This seems to be the strike zone depth for the big boys!

    Heading out!
    August 22, 2019 Thrusday Captain Ken Kennickell and Captain Deidra Helmey Jeffcoat took Adam Lipman, (Atlanta) his father Aaron (Ashville, Georgia) and Price Jordon (Atlanta) out for a little offshore fishing at the Savannah Snapper Banks. As I talked to Adam it was evident for conversation delivered that they group had caught fish from the first time they dropped until it was time to head home! Captain Ken remarked, “The bite was slow!” And Adam said, “It was great!” What does this boil down too? The customer is always right! So there you have it!



    While offshore fishing with Captain Ken Kennickell of Miss Judy Charters Adam Lipman Atlanta, Ga caught this nice genuine red snapper! So therefore since it is not snapper season this fish is still swimming! This is a really nice fish! Check out the colors that it is sporting!

    While offshore fishing with Captain Ken Kennickell of Miss Judy Charters Price Jordon Atlanta, Ga caught this nice almaco jack. This is a nice almaco jack normally these fish are not this big!



    While offshore fishing with Captain Ken Kennickell of Miss Judy Charters Aaron Lipman Ashville, NC




    Front row: Price Jordon, Adam Lipman (both from Atlanta) Adam’s father Aaron (Ashville NC)
    Back Row: Captain Ken Kennickell and Captain Deidra Helmey Jeffcoat both of Miss Judy Charters


    What’s on deck? Vermillion snapper also known as b-liners, trigger fish, white grunt, almaco jack, red porgy, and amberjack!
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