Lets talk about this past week’s fog! On Tuesday March 10, 2015 Daryl Chandler while heading home from Gray’s Reef ran in to what he called a “Stephen King Fog Bank” at around 2:00 PM. I was fishing on this date and didn’t have any fog in my area. By the way I loved Daryl’s name for the fog, because it deftinley fits! The reason being is you really never get used to being in the ocean in a blinding fog bank!
On Wednesday March 11, 2015 while heading home from the artifical reef L Buoy I ran into a fog bank at aound noon, which turned out to be about 18 miles across. I exercised my horn a lot on this day. The fog bank started at the L Buoy and didn’t lift until I was at the tip of Wassaw Island. As you can see from this picture the north tip of Wassaw Island was completely covered. Fortuntely my boat Miss Judy Too is equiped with radar, GPS, Sonar, and I have recorded tracks on my chart plotter. With all this equipment on board I do have to admit that it does make it a lot easier to operate in the fog. However, there is still that chance that something can go wrong! My father used to say, “Your equipment is only as good as it’s operator and none, no matter what is fool proof.”
Bottom Fishing the Sound!
I have always said, “When bottom fishing you really never know what you might catch!”
I have always said, “When bottom fishing you really never know what you might catch!”
Trophy Red Fish and whiting caught while bottom fishing in the sound!
Craig Steigerwald and Captain Judy are showing off not only his just caught trophy red fish, but also a great fish catching smile. It was Craig’s bachalor party with his family and friends!
Lucas Pearson, part of Craig's bachelor fishing party, caught the most whiting. And, of course, the smallest black sea bass. And it is still swimming and growing!
Craig Steigerwald and Captain Judy are showing off not only his just caught trophy red fish, but also a great fish catching smile. It was Craig’s bachalor party with his family and friends!
Captain Uncle Bob Morrissey is holding up a nice tuna that he caught, most likely while fishing in one of his secret spots! His boat, Salt Shaker was known in this area as a boat that could find lots of fish. So therefore those that saw Captain Uncle Bob making way they just followed! Heck, I even did it a few times and guess what? It paid off in fish! When Captain Uncle Bob sold his boat it was the end of a great fish catching era!
Captain Uncle Bob, whom I talk to on a regular basis, keeps me informed of the bite and the whereabouts of near shore/inshore fish. While passing Landing Harbor Marina on my way home this past week I got a call from Captain Uncle Bob and he offered a nice near shore fishing report. While fishing off the dock at Landings Harbor Marina he caught a few whiting and one fish which I have always called “a spot!” He was using pieces of shrimp laced on to small Kahle hooks. The rig used most likely was a light tackle homemade Carolina Rig. As far a table fare, the just caught whiting makes for a great meal. And you have options when it comes to cleaning. You can scale and fillet or you can scale, cut the head off, gut, and cook whole. No matter how you clean your fish the bottom line is this, “It’s so good when fried, baked, or broiled!”
Gray’s Reef Sanctuary
Tuesday March 10, 2015
Daryl Chandler is holding a nice trophy red fish that he caught while jigging with paddle/screw tails at Gray’s Reef Sanctuary. Daryl is one of our local recreational fishermen that graciously keeps us informed by sending us up to date detailed fishing reports, which by the way helps a lot of people including me! So Daryl please keep them a coming!!
Daryl Chandler and Richard Bickley spent a fish at the Gray’s Reef Sanctuary
While fishing with buck tail jig rigged with curly or paddle tails baits this duo had a great fish catching day. They caught 5 trophy red fishing averaging in length from 39 to 47 inches. In between catching/releasing trophy red fish that caught their limit of black sea bass and released 60 to 70 of these fish. According to Daryl’s fishing report they caught two species trophy red fish and dozens of black sea bass, which sounds like to me that they had a whole bunch of reeling going on!
Richard Bickley caught this nice trophy red fish while fishing with Daryl Chandler at Gray’s Reef.
Artificial Reefs
March 11, 2015 Wednesday
Bottom fishing at the artificial reefs
Terry Hill Diane Hill and Terry Hill Jr
Mr. Terry Hill, Captain Kathy Brown, Diane Hill, and Terry Hill Jr are showing us just a few of the black sea bass that they caught while plain old bottom fishing. The bottom line was this: Diane, Mr. Terry’s wife caught the most and fished the longest!
Savannah Snapper Banks
It is time to go!
Gulf Stream Trips are available!
It is time to go!
As the Propeller Turns…
Captain Buddy shows you how to operate your boat and Miss Judy Charters shows you how to catch fish! A winning combination!
If you want to get your best chance at learning serious and safe boating skills, this is a great place to start! Give Captain Buddy Lee a call!
It’s time to wet a line.
Bill Vanderford is “Lake Lanier’s Legend!”
Lake Lanier Fishing Secrets Revealed [Kindle Edition]
Bill Vanderford (Author, Photographer)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IOW2A18
http://www.georgiafishing.com/
If you want to go, it’s time to make your spring time plans!
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Little Miss Judy's Believe it or Not!
I spend a lot of my childhood days with my father, Captain Shermen Helmey, being his so-called “Striker.” That is what we called a boat helper back in the old days. Today they are called “First Mates.”
One day on my way home from a hard day of offshore fishing, I looked over and saw one of my customers munching on a box of cracker jacks. I had to ask, “what did you get for a prize?’ My customer laughed and replied, “A paper tattoo.” This conversation triggered my thoughts to drift back in time. This is when I remembered something that had happened when I was with my father, the original Captain Helmey.I was about seven years old when this happened. We had been fishing all day and we were returning home at a very slow pace. My father’s boat, Miss Jerry had a solid speed of about 12 knots. In those days this was considered the correct moving speed and you already know about these days. The Coast Guard stopped us and asked if they could board our vessel. My father let them on board, not that he could stop them. They wanted to see all of his required safety gear. Our flares and the great shark repellent can were stored in the old icebox, which was used as our safety equipment storage space. That’s not all that was in the ice box/storage space, there were also lots of sea rations. Daddy purchased cases of these prime, out of date k-rations from the army-navy store, which was located on world famous Victory Drive. I think the name of the place was called “EAT’S.” If you have lived in Savannah long as I have, it was the place that had the old fire engine sitting out in front for years. They served the best hotdogs in town. I am not sure if the hotdogs or the army-navy stuff was the side line business, but I always had a good time going through all the stuff while waiting for my hotdogs. I don’t remember what daddy was doing. I guess maybe telling fishing lies or drumming up new business. There were always lots of people coming in and out of the back room.I watched a special on television about the use of the old shark repellant. They showed old footage of the original test they made with the repellent. They put shark repellent can in the water where there were no sharks in sight. However the new findings were not good, because sharks did start showing up as well circling. It seems that the repellent didn’t keep the shark away, but instead lured them in. I am glad we never had to use that stuff. We would have been calling the sharks to dinner and we would have mostly likely been their snack.
Now back to the Coast Guard inspection... I was crunching on my newly open box of Cracker Jacks, my favorite snack for that day. Everything seemed to be going well except daddy couldn’t find has manual horn. The button that I always pushed to blow the electric horn didn’t work either.
This is something you must have or else you get a ticket from the little yellow book. I kept eating my Crack Jacks. I finally got to the prize, which was a whistle. I stared blowing it, because that is what kids usually do with a whistle. I got everyone’s attention including the Coast Guard inspector. Daddy smiled. My Cracker Jack whistle prize got the Miss Jerry approved! No tickets today!
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