Brent Dye, his son Dustin, and Captain Matt Williams! This fishing crew had a great fish catching day! While using live shrimp, Captain Matt, showed them the way!
While fishing the breakers off Tybee Island Brantley caught….
While doing a little surf fishing Brantley Odom hooked up, fought, landed, and released this big red fish. On this particular fish day he caught and released a total of three bull reds. As far as bait Brantley was using live menhaden, which is his 1st choice for the summer time bite. When it cools off a bit he switches to cut bait.
A great target rich environment equals fishing the outskirts of a bait ball round up!
Bait ball round up! If you ever happen up on a bait situation like this I suggest fishing the out skirts, because this is where you are going to get your best chance at catching a large fish.
Menhaden Bait Pods
This is the time of year where the ocean menhaden start showing up on the beach fronts and sounds. This is one bait fish that has predators darting in from underneath as well as on the outskirts. Best known predators are sharks, tarpon, jack Crevalle, and other toothy monsters. They even have a predator, which attacks from the sky and that would be the pelican. Bait pods that are scattered near the surface are usually not under attack. However, tightly school schools of bait fish nervously flipping on the surface are normally have a big “bull’s eye” on their back. This means there is something either feeding our herding them. When the larger fish are feeding on the school its evidence by the crashing and scattering of left over flying bait parts. When a larger fish is herding it’s just hanging in the outskirt waiting to feed again. At this time the bait fish are nervously schooling as tight as possible while trying to make an allusion of a larger fish. The bottom line in their case is that this works sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. Those baitfish pushed on the outer side of the school are normally the first to know whether this worked or not!
Artificial Reefs
Meet Mr. Barracuda Head!
Meet Mr. Barracuda Head! The barracuda bite has been good! Most of fish have been caught while trolling the artificial reefs! This fish comes with warning: Better be careful as you can see Mr. Barracuda Head has lots of teeth and knows exactly what it can do with them!
Artificial Reefs
It’s that time of the year where offshore fishermen could find themselves catching any and all kinds of fish. Before heading out I always suggest doing a little home work first.
Get to know the artificial reef where you are going to be fishing, which means don’t wait till you arrive to try figure out the locations of best spots to fish. Reefs located in less than 50 feet of water normally have low relief structure such as concrete rubble, culver pipes, tires place in the mid seventies, and the high relief parts are usually barges. Reefs located in deeper water have larger wrecks along with more bottom structure, which means more fish catching opportunities! The bottom line is this ..pre-planning equals more fish catching opportunities! Catching keeper size bottom fish in these areas is sometimes hard to find. However, it can happen, because normally somewhere somehow the fish are there holding in an isolated spot on the reef. Take my advice; if you have spent the time getting there you might as well make the best of it! As far as top water fish, well you could find yourself catching everything from a barracuda, king/Spanish mackerel, cobia, to a jack crevelle!
Here’s an artificial reef tip that you can use…Most wrecks located at the artificial reefs are surrounded by lower relief deposits. This boils down too, once you find the wreck I suggest looking on the outskirts for any additions.
Savannah Snapper Banks
The Tower of Power
Kevin Hunnicutt on the Clementine scores big!
While fishing with friends aboard his prize possession “Clementine” the team had a great catching day!
There is quite a bit of history when it comes to Kevin’s boat “Clementine!” His grandfather Clem Burnsed purchased this boat and used it for his very own for many years. When it was time to pass it on, he left it to his grandson. Kevin has since gone through the boat and renewed it back to its original stage, making it a genuine classic! My father and Clem Burnsed go way way back and it had a lot to do with AGDF ERA! (AGDF stands for Automobiles and all it implies from repairing to other stealthy things, Gambling escapades, Drinking lots of brown and clear liquor, and Fishing, which in their case should have really been called catching. Because when Daddy and Clem set out to do something whether it was work or play they were always very successful!) See Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or Not story at the end of this report!
Fishing at the Savannah Snapper Banks is just plain great fish catching fun!
Captain Judy and Alla’s fishing family and friends! This is a great bunch of fishermen that know how to catch fish and have a good time while doing it!!
This is a moray eel! This brings to the catching light that you really never know what you might catch while plain old bottom fishing and this is the proof! My father taught me a few things when it comes to dealing with the biting jaws of a moray eel. According to my father, who had first time experience with these biting matters, always told me that if you happen to get latched on to by a moray eel that he suggests pushing the head forward not to pull the head back. I don’t know about you, but pulling it away would be my absolute first move! The moray’s teeth are inverted and pushing its head forward should help release the eel’s hold. This would be much better than pulling it painfully away!
Gulf Stream
Well, I am not saying don’t go, I am saying however, if you do go please send pictures. There have been plenty of great fishing catching day during this time of the year! And if trolling doesn’t work I suggest giving bottom fishing a try. This is just about when catching comes into play!
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