Offshore Trophy Red Fish Extravaganza!
While fishing with the Jam Up Fishing team of Price Jordan, Michael Jordan, Adam Lipman, Marty Babb, and Captain Steve “Triple Trouble” Howell we all had a grand offshore blast! Yes, there was rough sea conditions to deal and the winds were howling not allowing me (Captain Judy) to get where I need to catch fish. However, this fishing team was up for the challenge! They said, “They work in the weather so fishing in conditions like this was just another day!” I love these kinds of fishermen because they are always ready to go even though the weather might not be prefect! And they are also ready to have a good time no matter what! And we all did! Marty Babb holding up a nice trophy soon to be released red fish!
Captain Judy Helmey giving a big thumbs up and Adam Lipman holding his just caught trophy red fish approves this message!
Captain Judy, Captain Kathy, Price Jordon holding offshore trophy red fish and Adam Lipman have plenty to be happy about!
Mike Jordon scores again! Nice Trophy Red fish!
Adam Lipman is showing us that not only were the trophy red fish a biting so was the juvenile black sea bass! What a pair, what a pair!
Inshore
For bites sake or not!
I fish by my https://www.tidelog.com/
The inshore bite continues to evade some fishermen while others catch them every time...I guess it has a lot to do with timing and bait...so therefore if you can get live shrimp I suggest doing so ..the price might hurt your pocket a bit, but the up side is your chances for catching are better than not! If you can’t get live shrimp there are always mud minnows and finger mullet. Please whatever you do, when you find dead shrimp in your live well or parts and pieces left over from that last fish bite...I suggest keeping all fresh dead whole/parts...best way to keep them is to store in an empty plastic water bottle and throw back in cooler....and yes they will freeze like this too...no freezer burns and the scent stays in the bottle on the shrimp...in some cases, when using live shrimp, once you get the bite going, you can switch to artificial shrimp patterns and or fresh dead shrimp whole/parts! As far as what’s biting...well our captains caught some nice slots reds, spotted sea trout, flounder, whiting, black drum, and sheepshead...it is a mixed bag catching affair, but OH so fun!
As far as the bite this past weekend...it was poor in the am and better as afternoon arrived. So therefore pull out your log book and make a note of this. The best tide book on the market is https://www.tidelog.com/ and of course they make great Christmas gifts! Now if you are looking at your log book you will see that the better fish bite started on the afternoon incoming tide stage. So therefore write it down and keep a record, because later it could be information that you use.
Let’s talk live bait!
List of local bait houses!
As far as live bait this area (Savannah, Georgia) bait houses have had a hard time keeping up with the demand. Here are a few bait houses, which I always suggest call before you go! Tybee Island Tackle shop, (912 786 7472) Joey’s bait house, (912 897 3474) Bandy’s Bait house (912 354 6444) Bull river Marina (912 897 7300) Coffee Bluff (912 231 3628) ..and most of the time “They got live shrimp!”
Bait Switch!
However, on some occasion live shrimp are not available. This is when you change up and go with either mud minnows or finger mullet or start pitching artificial shrimp patterns. For those that want to catch their own bait, this has also been a problem. (First don’t forget to bring your cast net) Water temperatures have fallen a bit and in most case shrimp holding up in the creeks and rivers can be caught in holes.
Captain Kathy Brown of Miss Judy Charters is holding up a pair of blue fish as well as the lure that caught them!
Offshore
Black fish, blue fish, red fish!
And of course sheepshead, black drum, and flounder!
So therefore we are offering short boat rides to the fish! Your boat or mine!
The good news is the keeper black fish populations are on the rise at the artificial reefs and along with this comes hundreds of trophy red fish! (Please remember all red fish, no matter the size, when fishing in federal waters are catch and release only!)
And while all of the biting is going on you can now add blue fish to your list of catch possibilities. These fish have a strong mouth full of teeth and are not afraid to use them. The up side to catching blue fish is that they are so much fun to catch on light tackle and the down side is they bite at everything from you bait to your main line to your leader. So therefore some extra rigging just might be in your future. For those that don’t want to use squid, shrimp, or cut fish these fish will also hit any sort of shinny spoons! (Clarks, drones, Hopkins spoons, etc) You can catch blue fish trolling, pitching, or by plain old bottom fishing!
You can now add a strong sheepshead bite at the near shore artificial reefs the best baits are going to be the purple back fiddlers, small bite size rock crabs, bugged out shrimp, barnacles, mussels, shrimp heads, clams parts, and anything else that might come wrapped in the shell...please remember that a sheepshead love to crushed, then it ***** the meat out, and discard the shell parts...and believe me they can do this in a fast fashion! A sheepshead is so fast that it can **** the insides out of a fiddler while leaving the empty shell still on your hook. When a customer says, “I still have my fiddler!” I always suggest taking closer look! Believe me the old sheepshead has incredible eye sight and the grand ability to stiff out the first what is wants to eat next! Swimming, schooling, and hanging around with the sheepshead are black drum and believe it or not but also the flat boys, better known as flounder.
Do I try it or do I not! I say “YES!”This would make a great stocking stuffer!
http://www.lifesparkfishingtackle.com/ Rick and Rachel Crozier
Life Spark Sport Fishing Tackle
5827 - 4 AVE. NE
Calgary, AB 587-349-3567
If you have been following by fishing reports you already know that I am a strong advocate and user of the Electron Fish Attractor. But of course there are those fishermen that either don’t believe or just don’t get it! Well, I am a believer and I do get it, because catching is my business for sure! As you know I have been taking people fishing for over 51 years and I do know how to catch fish. However, it always helps to get a little extra outside assistance especially when it comes to catching! After all that is what fishing is all about! Heck, the tackle shops and the web are full of beautifully colored and different sizes/shapes of all kinds of lures. When it comes to a lures picked these days I truly believe it is more about the fisherman than the fish. After all and I have said this many times over, a lure will most likely not work if the fisherman using it doesn’t believe in it.
The fish attractor is neither a lure nor bait. It is merely an addition to lures or baits that you are already using. And as a fisherman I already know what I am using as a lure or baits already works. However, if you want to add to your already so call prefect picked lure or bait I suggest giving the Electron Fish Attractor a try!
Just so that you know, I am on the Pro-Staff team at www.lifesparkfishingtackle.com and I am proud to be a member! After reading the above if you are still not convinced you want give the attractor a try here are a few suggestions that just might change your mind...first go to the web site and give it a good read...and check out the magazine article that is in http://canadianoutdoorsmanmagazine.com/index.html this is a free online magazine, which to subscribe all you have to do is add name and email address...and then open the current Fall 2016 magazine...to around page 58 for angler’s X Files “Dare to Believe, Part 2..Understanding the 6th Sense! This article helps explain a little better the just of the electron fish attractor. (If you missed part 1, look in the 2016 summer issue.) This article helps explain a little better the gist of the electron fish attractor.
The same article is being published in the http://americanoutdoorsman.ca/#!/page_home, which will be available in the next day or so. Look for the fall issue. It is a much easier read!
You can certainly read all of this and come to you own conclusions or you can just take my word for it. It is a known fact that fishermen are known for not exactly telling the truth when it comes to the size of fish caught/lost or how they caught them in the first place. But in this case I feel this way; I am going to share this information with you! Yes I am fisherman, yes I am seasoned, yes I am proven, and so now are these fish attractors!
Thanks, Captain Judy Helmey Miss Judy Charters Savannah Georgia
Inshore Catching Report brought to us my Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters
Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters is no quitter! He departed in the morning on Sunday and even though his trip was way over by noon they all opted to stay a little longer! For those, at least from Miss Judy Dock, that did do any inshore fishing this past weekend, the bite seemed to be slow in the morning and then it picked up in the afternoon. However, this bite occurrence wasn’t seen by all over here, proving once again that fish pretty much strike and bite when they want too! And if I have said this once I have said it hundreds of times...it boils down to location location location!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross, Sabrina Devogt Hampton Georgia
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While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross, Sabrina and Raymond Devogt Hampton Georgian Tyler Conrey of Stuart Florida caught a few and released a lot!
A blue water report from far far away!
Check out the blue water at the Bahamas...
My long time friend Elaine Longwater (http://longwater.com/ Savannah’s well known Advertising guru sent me this picture of her granddaughter Sophia Camahan. It seems only yesterday that I remember Sophia’s mother Paris being this age! My how time flies!
As you can see Sophia (Elaine’s granddaughter) has caught, fought, and landed a very nice Mahi Mahi! Sophia was fishing and vacating in the Bahamas with the Thatcher family! WOW! Makes me want to go! Congratulations Sophia, Nice fish!
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