While inshore fishing with Uncle Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters Ross William (Atlanta area) caught fought and released this beautiful jack crevalle. So therefore, it can be reported that large schools of jacks can be seen schooling on the surface in the Wassaw Sound! Now what does a big fish like this care to eat? Well, you can start with live shrimp under some sort of a popping cork or a traditional adjustable float. And then if you like casting and retrieving I suggest some sort of lure when retrieve is pops on the surface or maybe a walking the dog type surface lure. (Top Dog, Jr) The bottom line is this, if these big Jacks are schooling on the surface they are feeding on something down under. Before running up on the school stop and access the situation before approaching with bait ready!


You can tell a lot by watching the school as it moves on the surface! Check out the direction in which they are swimming. Are they circling or are they on a straight swimming mission. Are they feeding? Check for any surface oils, which are produced when the large fish feed on the smaller ones! Try to see if any sort of bait is breaking the surface and if so, make sure the size of your lure matches the bait. This is where the phase “match the hatch” comes into play!



Tarpon! The head was all that would fit into this picture! Check out the size of this fish’s eye!


And we have been seeing a few tarpon splashes! What is a tarpon splash? Normally when a tarpon gets air, once it falls back into the water a oblong splash is made. What kind of wave rings does this splash produce? Straight waves on the long sides and curved waves on the ends! (Now remember this is not a report for the non- believers!)



Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters took his brother Ross Williams on an inshore fish catching affair! As you can see Ross is holding two very nice flounder, which I am sure is a perfect fit for dinner! These two fish could not pass up Captain Matt signature bottom rig which was rigged with live finger mullet for bait. And you know what they say about the old flounder, “You got to give them time to eat!” As you can see Ross did just that!


Dustin Dye (Little Rock, Arkansas) and his father Brent (Atlanta) inshore fished with Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters for two days! Did they catch fish both days? Yep! Did the fish caught gladly take them up on their live bait offerings of finger mullet, shrimp, and mud minnows? Yep! Is this father son duo sporting fish catching smiles? Yep! As you can see it was a big Yep great two fish catching days!

Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters really does know how to throw the old cast net. And yes he does catch most of his own live bait. And there is a reason why? Bait such as finger mullet and shrimp get very stressed out when caught in a drag net making their life expectancy on the hook not very good. The secret to successfully getting your best chance at catching spotted sea trout is the fact that the bait needs to more hardy than not! Now don’t get me wrong, a spotted sea trout will hit sluggish bait. However, if you want the fish to slam your bait then you got to use one that triggers a hit! And what would do? A lively prefect colored bait! So therefore give the fish what they want and get what you want in return! There are plenty of shrimp to be caught while throwing the cast net. Mud flats in the creeks and rivers are holding the interest of some prefect sized shrimp. What does this mean? Not fisherman eating size, but whether fish eating size!

What did one Spanish mackerel say to the other? I told you that wasn’t a glass minnow! It was a 00 Clark Spoon! Yep it was!

Two ounce soaked trolling sinkers and one ought and two ought Clarks spoons!
What do we have here? Two ounce lead so called trout sinkers! However, I am using them as trolling sinkers. Whatever you do, do not use your new shinny sinkers until you have soaked them in salt water! If you use a new shinny sinker on the mackerel rig the fish will hit the sinker more than the lure. Here’s one for you, pick up any of our sinkers from trout to banks sinkers rub your finger across them and you will feel sharp points in the lead. What is that? The broken off teeth of fish that have attacked the lead even after they have been soaked! What does all of this mean? I suggest purchasing more than two sinkers. The lures in this picture are 00 Clark spoons. We also use 0 Clark spoons. Both sizes work like a charm on the fish. My father called them one ought and two ought spoons!


Artificial Reefs in less than 50 feet of water


Well, I am not going to say, “The Spanish Mackerel bite is red hot!” Heck, I am not even going to say luke warm. However, I would like to report that if you see them jumping, if not but a few times, fish this spot. For some reason the Spanish is not schooling on the surface as they normally do at this time of the year. My only guess is that the glass minnows or whatever they are herding to eat prefers staying deeper. The fish themselves are feeding deeper. And who knows at this point? So to get your best chance I suggest using a #1,#2,or #3 planer with 00 or 0 (ought as my father always said) Clark spoon about 10 to 15 feet in tow. Now for those that don’t want to use planers or don’t want to invest in them either there is a smart alternative. I suggest using a 2 ounce trout sinker, which now can be called a trolling weight, tie on 10 to 15 feet of 20 pound test monofilament line, and then tie the spoon directly on the leader. For those that would like to use fluorocarbon leader, please by all means go for it!
How to fish a sinker and lure combo!
Let your sinker lure combo out about 40 to 50 feet or just shy of the depth of the water that you are fishing! Troll them behind the boat until you find the fish or where you think the fish are! Then pull the lures over the area and take your boat out of gear. The sinker will pull the lures down into the water column providing a more than grand entrance into the Spanish mackerel strike zone!

Alli DeYoung and Captain Kathy Brown of Miss Judy Charters are assisting a member of the Federico Castaneda fishing party! And what is this young angler holding? The leftovers from the first shark attack! Yep, the tail is gone!
Welcome to shark-ville! While trolling assorted color Jig jigs and pulling 3# planers with 3 1/2 Drone spoon 30 feet in tow we caught some very nice king mackerel! But here’s the thing...we were not the only ones interested in fishing for king mackerel. It seems that the toothy monsters not the barracuda, but rather large sharks decided to eat at the same time.

Artificial Reefs located in more than 50 feet of water
This teenager king mackerel hit a 3 ½ Drone spoon black/red, which was being pulled 30 feet behind a #3 planer!





Tail Intact Situation!
This was a nice king and we were darn luck to get this fish to the boat. We had to first fight the fish and then the shark! As you can see the shark got a grand taste but didn’t take the time to take a big bite!


So here’s how this shark feeding frenzy event took place.


After about the third time of having to pull the hooked king from the jaw of a hungry shark a catching keeping fish plan came together! Heck, after all if we didn’t come up with a plan the sharks would have gotten the bodies and we would have gotten the head only! We hooked up 11 king mackerel trolling rigged ballyhoo on three hook Judy Jig rigs and while pulling 3 ½ Drone spoons behind #3 planers!


Sharks versus Fishermen!
So here’s the score...we got to keep 7 kings with assorted parts missing! The
Sharks kept 4 whole king mackerel! And we didn’t even get to keep the heads!



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David Turner Tybee Island, Georgia is assisting Jake Kidd with is amberjack! After all this fish is just about bigger then Jake! He said, “I want to catch a big fish!” Well, as you can see Jake certainly did!



Robin Turner Tybee Island, Georgia has a double vermilion snapper also known as b-liners hook up! And the best news is that these are some nice ones for sure!



John Kidd is shocked at what’s left of his son’s Jake just caught king mackerel! A very large over 10 foot hammer head took one clean bite leaving us just enough for a few king mackerel steaks! As you can see the king was a little shocked too!




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“Little Miss Judy Believe It or Not!”
This wasn’t the first Miss Judy wooden charter boat. It was about the second or third one! She had a set of my father’s homemade outriggers, which worked just fine! This picture was taken in the late sixties, which was about 50 years ago! My how time flies!
Old Timey Out Riggers!

My father’s homemade outriggers
Back in the old days before I even knew what a real set of outriggers looked like we had what was called “Sherman Style!” I guess for those that don’t know about out riggers in the first place I should maybe explain a bit about their function. The best way to describe outriggers for those that have never seen them is too think about a boat with thin out right wings. On these wings is a clothesline or flag pole design with a pin/clip that holds your line and allows you to pull it to the end the rigger. These riggers extend out and away from the boat allowing us fishermen to pull more lines or I should say, “Baits!” The good news is that once you have dropped back your bait to the desire distance from your boat, you can clip it, and clothe line it to the top of the riggers. Not only does the rigger allow you to pull more baits, it also keeps them out of the prop wash and outside of the boat’s noise.
Dragging lots of bait send a schooling type signal gets a fish’s attention, which most of the time triggers some sort of bite. When the fish hits the baits, which is being trolled behind the outrigger the clip holding the line releases. The extra slack, which happens immediately, allows the fish to run, but for “seconds only” with it newly found kill. With outriggers installed on your boat you can pull two to three extra baits. If you add baits being pulled from the cockpit and outriggers possibilities you really could have your own personal moving school of baitfish, which you are in full control of. Outrigger costs can vary from $500.00 to $5,000.00 plus dollars…. However, “Sherman Style Outriggers” did the same thing, but certainly didn’t cost as much.
My father knew about outriggers and their concept. However, he wasn’t about to pay for those that were already made. He was a man of many means; after all he had built cars so that they didn’t look loaded down, even when they were. So therefore outriggers were a “basic walk in the park!” Daddy visited our local hardware store, which was “Woo’s” at the time, and purchased needed parts. He asked for the longest ½ thin walled aluminum pipe that they had. Length was important, because if they didn’t have what he wanted, daddy would just piece it together with inserts.


Store bought outriggers are made so that they can swing in out from the boat. There are bracket made to hold outriggers at a certain angle. When under “fast making way mode” outriggers should be pulled tight to the boat. In the case of fishing, you let them out like dropping a set of wings. In my father’s case there were no brackets made much less used to hold his homemade outriggers. All he did was drill a hole through the swinging pipe and through the stationery section, line them up, and pushed a nail through to hold them. When he wanted the outriggers in the down and fishing mode there was another hole drilled for this stage. I have to admit lining the hole up in rough sea conditions was a little hard, but it worked never the less. The best part was the string that held the nail, which was attached to the boat. No matter how many times you dropped it, the good news was you didn’t lose it!


Thanks for reading!


Captain Judy