Mary McCormick, Liz Ross and her daughters Chyler age 10 and Stella age 5! What are they holding up? Each fisher has a nice spotted sea trout! Who took the inshore fishing? Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters, Don Baker, Suwanee, Georgia caught this nice red fish. What did this fish eat? A properly cast into placed worked top water artificial bait. (Now that is a mouth full!)
We are catching large spotted sea trout, black drum, flounder, and red fish, whiting, and bonnet head sharks. During these hot water times .live shrimp works. However, if you want to step up your catching game I suggest thinking outside of the baiting up box. During these hot water time there is plenty of prefect size shrimp available for all fish that care to eat them. However, throwing the old cast net and catching a few smaller fish such as finger mullet, yellow tail, or peanut menhaden will also turn the head of a large size fish. The old mud minnow or mantis are baits you might not catch a lot of in the cast net, but they do work.
Cobia
Yes cobia in federal waters is closed, but they are still open in state waters. However, there have been a few sightings in the sounds and the best news is that if you catch one you can keep it. (The legal size to keep is 33 inches fork length and carries a bag limit of two.) Now, you are just a likely catching one of these fish while you are fishing or not for them! My suggestion just in case is to always have a small gaff or sturdy net on board. What does this fish prefer to eat? Anything that gets their attention! So any baits live or dead used inshore will work! (live/shrimp, artificial baits, or surfaced worked plugs)
Tarpon season is upon us!
What is it the absolute best live/dead bait? Fresh caught menhaden. Once good tip when trying to your best chance at catching a tarpon is to find the menhaden aka pogies and then watch to see if they are being interrupted by anything in the out skirts of the schools of bait fish. Also any areas where baits have to evacuate or swim into due to the tide are great places/situations for a tarpon to stage a grand feeding coup. I would also like to report that the tarpon bite in the Savannah and Brunswick areas has not been up to the norm. I am not trying to say don’t target I am just giving you a heads up!!
Triple Tail trials!
In the Savannah area I would say this bite has been great. I have had more reports of fishermen bringing them back to the dock. In Brunswick, I have also gotten reports that they are having a very good season also. Normally the further south you go (down by Brunswick) the more plentiful the triple tail is. What do they like to eat? Live shrimp where do you find them? Around buoys, buoy chains, laying flat on the surface just a sunning, or hanging under any free floating debris. If you are looking, even the smallest float object might hold their attention. So therefore approaching any of these suggested areas in a quiet fashion is always a great idea! Especially if you don’t want to scare them away!
Liz and Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters and Mary McCormick! What is Captain Garrett holding? A nice spotted sea trout! What is Liz doing? Fighting another one!
Chyler age 10 her mother Liz Ross her younger sister cute Stella age 5 and Mary McCormick! All fishers are from Savannah, Georgia! But I think they should be called Catchers instead of Fishers!
Liz Garrett is holding a nice spotted sea trout that she caught while fishing with hubby Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Stephen Roberts and his son Chandler Savannah, Georgia had a grant catching day! Chandler is holding up a nice red fish, which he caught on ultra light tackle!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Chandler Roberts caught this nice spotted sea trout! What did it eat? A trained live shrimp!
While fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Don Baker, Suwanee, Georgia caught this nice gator trout. What it eat? A live shrimp! Where was Don fishing? On Captain Kevin favorite reds flat in about 6 inches of water!
Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters knows the genuine ways of a red fish, which it’s feeding on shallow water flat. While pitching a 31/8 inch; Skitter Walk top water plug the old red fish couldn’t resist! From this picture the red fish liked it so much that it just went on and inhaled it!
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While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Matthew Freeman LaGrange, Georgia, age 17 caught this nice spotted sea trout!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Charles Freeman LaGrange, Georgia caught this nice red fish! What did it eat? Gulp bait! What kind? The right kind!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Matthew Freeman LaGrange, Georgia, age 17 caught this nick spotted sea trout! Matthew was fishing with his father Charles and here’s what they did! They had a Savannah Slam! What is this? This is where you catch a red fish, spotted sea trout, and flounder. And this is what they did! What did the fish eat? Well, here’s the inside scoop brought to us directly from Captain Kevin Rose..The flounder hit a worked silver spoon, the red couldn’t resist a worked a gulp bait, and a lonely mud minnow to brought the spotted sea trout to the hook! And that’s how Captain Kevin did the slamming deed!
While inshore fishing with Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters Matthew Freeman LaGrange, Georgia, age 17 caught this nice flounder! What did it eat? Silver spoon
While inshore fishing with Captain Tommy Williams of Miss Judy Charters Layson Samson age 15 Dublin, Georgia caught this nice black drum!
While inshore fishing with Captain Tommy Williams of Miss Judy Charters Layson Samson age 15 Dublin, Georgia caught this red fish! What was Layson using for bait? Live shrimp!
While inshore fishing with Captain Stephen Thompson of Miss Judy Charter
Ben Kornblatt, Jason Kornblatt, Chelsea, and Brian Kornblatt had a blast at catching, releasing, and keeping!
Take a look at this monster jack crevalle! While fishing with Captain Matt William of Miss Judy Charters, Seth McMahn Caddo, Texas caught, fought, and released this big jack! While Seth was a fighting his fish his father Todd McMahn Caddo, Texas and his grandfather Bill Kirkland, Savannah, Georgia was cheering him on!
Jumbo Jacks!
Yes we got them in the sound! What are they doing? Running the poor menhaden to death! How do you catch them? Feed them what they are chasing. Or pitch from a far away as you can any sort of top water plug that causes a commotion on the surface. Please this is a catch and release fish only! Why? Because it is the right thing to do! So therefore, tackle that is meant for smaller fish will break and hooks with bend..so beef your tackle up! This means go with plugs with heavier stout hooks and use rod/reel combo a step up from your normal spotted sea trout rig. This will allow you a greater strong fight and also once released gives the fish a chance to swim another day!
While fishing with Captain Matt William of Miss Judy Charters, Seth McMahn Caddo, Texas caught, fought, and released this big jack! While Seth was a fighting his fish his father Todd MaMahn Caddo, Texas and his grandfather Bill Kirkland, Savannah, Georgia was cheering him on!
While fishing with Captain Matt William of Miss Judy Charters, Seth McMahn Caddo, Texas caught, fought, and released this big jack! While Seth was a fighting his fish his father Todd McMahn Caddo, Texas and his grandfather Bill Kirkland, Savannah, Georgia was cheering him on!
Artificial reefs
These areas are holding Spanish/King mackerel, barracuda, blue fish, blue runners, and sharks...it is all good! Trolled or pitched 00/0 size Clarks spoons for the best chance for mackerel, blue runners, blue fish, and small cuda. For the cudas, hooked up fresh dead or live Spanish mackerel are great as bait! As far as the shark, cut up anything fresh and put in on or near the bottom. What will you get? Big big bite possibility!
Savannah snapper Banks
It just time to go...when bottom fishing the catching opportunities are endless. Here is a short list: Grouper, vermilion, white grunts, porgy, triggerfish, banded rudder fish, amberjack, ocean perch, as well as many other bottom biters. What is the best bait? Cut squid, cut fish, live/dead Spanish sardines, and live/dead cigar minnows.
As far as the top water bite it’s time for Mahi Mahi and king mackerel! Believe me put a live bait in the water and watch a serious bite happen! What kind of bait? The livelier and the shinier the better!
Alli DeYoung was born in Savannah, GA and loves to fish. She is a freshman in high school, plays tennis, and Irish dances. Alli was exposed to fishing at a young age. Her daddy fished the Southern Kingfish Association Tournament Trail when she was young and Alli would “pre-fish” with him. When she was in the fourth-grade fishing became a constant weekend activity with her daddy. In the fifth grade, Alli went to the stream for the first time and she was hooked. Over the last few years, Alli has competed in local and regional tournaments; fun fished for many incredible fish, and made many delicious meals with her catch. Alli loves the water and loves that every trip is a new adventure. “If you are in the right spot, it is amazing to put meat on a hook, drop it in the water, and catch a fish.”
Believe me when I say she is on the ocean a lot! (And really I don’t know how she does it with all of her other activities, but she does!) I asked her if she would like to help me with the fishing report and she said, “Yes!” So therefore this offshore report was sent to me and written by Alli! From now on she will be known as Alli DeYoung contributing editor to the Captain Judy’s Fishing Report.
Alli DeYoung Offshore report
We left the dock at 7:30 am on July 22, 2017 to make way to the Savannah Snapper Banks. The weather was great, clear skies and just a light breeze. We made a pit stop in the sound to throw the cast net on some Pogies and then we headed out to the artificial reefs to get some Greenies and Spanish Sardines. Bait was everywhere up on top at the artificial reefs. We jigged up what looked like a super tiny Barracuda but is actually called a Northern Sonnet. While we were getting bait, we floated out a Pogy up on top and caught one barracuda. Once we had enough live bait in our livewell, we continued to the Savannah Snapper Banks to go fish.
We made some passes over a spot but we only caught one giant genuine Red Snapper and a few Amberjacks. So, we decided to try some other spots over at the Grand Banks. As we were running over there we saw a bunch of birds and a lot of splashing up on the surface. We couldn’t help but to slow down and see what all the commotion was. Once we started to get bottom readings, we saw a plume of life on the bottom that we couldn’t pass up in about 110 feet of water. We fished that spot for the rest of the day and pulled up a bunch of big Triggerfish and a few Black Sea Bass and Vermillion Snapper. As we fished it we saw a Hammerhead that had to be at least eight feet long, a giant sea Turtle and several pods of Porpoises. The ocean was truly alive! Earlier in the day we caught a small Jack that we put back down as live bait, and eventually something big bit off the entire top side of him and left some huge teeth marks. It was pretty bizarre.
Towards the end of the day we noticed the wind began to pick up and was starting to blow harder. So, we decided to head for home. In total, we caught 7 Vermillion Snapper, 4 Black Sea Bass, 20 Triggerfish, a few amberjacks, and 1 Genuine Red Snapper that was released unharmed back to the wild.
Dolphins playing around in the clear blue water.
We jigged up this little Northern Sonnet (shown above) in the artificial reefs off of Savannah Georgia. I think it looks a lot like a little Barracuda.
Alli DeYoung holding one of the triggerfish caught near the Savannah Snapper Banks
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Clinton Fonseca holding up his double stringer of Triggerfish.
From left to right: Clinton Fonseca, Ty Cobb, Alli DeYoung, And Dan DeYoung. The team showing off their catch with some nice fish- catching smiles.
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