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Capt. Richie Lott (Coastalislandcharter)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 - 1:17 pm: | |
The Hunt for Bull Reds In October - Georgia Coast
Capt. Richie Lott
October 15, 2008
St. Simons Island - Saltwater Fishing Report
The Bull Redfish bite near shore off the GA coast has been simply incredible. After last years hero or zero season, we started the first week of October with an amazing 71 fish as of yesterday, landed and released.
The Reds have been ranging from 20 pounds to over 40 pounds, with 30-32 being the average.
These Spawning females come to the same places each year to spawn like clockwork and we are extremely fortunate to have this fishery. There are not very many places in the world that offer this type of fishing with reds in this size range and best if all, the bite is dependable.
If you have never caught a Bull Redfish, NOW is the time to fish for them on the GA coast. The bigger fish have been down in my neck of the woods. St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island, just off the beaches in very particular areas. These spots are traditional guide spots for Reds and are somwehat secluded/not fished areas where we're catching the fish over 35 pounds. The key to finding these fish is finding bait. No Secrets, that's the key. Period.
As far as finding new spots where there is likely to be Reds without hunting bait schools, the best thing you can do is seek breaking water on a sandbar with deep water nearby and fish the breakers and on the ledge where the breakers drop off into the channel next to them. If there are baitfish around, there should be Bull Reds.
It's a fun game and the fish make some great photos. Pretty much anything will work for bait, but it needs to be fresh. It's hard to beat a fresh menhaden, live or dead fished right on the bottom...! See photos and video of these fish @ www.charterfish.com.
Happy Fishing!
Target Species:
Bull Redfish
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Capt. Richie Lott
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 10:22 am: | |
Subject: Georgia Coast Fishing Report
The Bull Reds are here for a little bit longer..! I am hoping until around Thanksgiving. This is my favorite time of year for catching fish. Comfortable weather and the fish are BIG! When you get into numbers of these fish, the thrill can be overwhelming and extremely addictive! I am most certainly a victim.
We have caught Bull Reds on every charter this Month, and I only hope that the weather holds and the good bite continues throughout the month of November. Our best day was 26 Reds over 20 pounds before 11:00 AM. Of course this is an incredible day, but the daily average still comes out to be around 5-7 fish per trip.
A little patience and some cut bait on the bottom, and we'll normally have a great day on the Reds. Bulls up to 40 pounds+ are common as we come into the Fall season and the Tarpon fishing becomes next years agenda as they migrate back South and East.
Now, if one desires to Shark fish, there are PLENTY of Black Tips still hanging around the Shrimp Boats off the beaches, and most of them are BIG ONES... 80-110 pound fish are common.
If your plan is to ctach some big fish without the 30 mile ride offshore, Fall on the Georgia Coast offers some of the best nearshore fishing in the World. Period.
Offshore will be heating up this month as well, and we'll bring you the news on that right here at Coastal Island Charter Fishing!
Book it today before the Redfish Season is over! Some Weekends already booked.
Go Fish!
Capt. Richie Lott
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Capt. Ray Kelly
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Subject: YOU can appear on our TV Fishing Show
We are in the process of scheduling of filmings for the 2002 season.
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our website. Please read some of the stories and watch the video clips
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Thank you and good luck fishing!
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Capt. Richie Lott
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Subject: Live Bottom Jigging For Sea Bass
LIVE BOTTOM JIGGING FOR SEA BASS
Now is the time to blow the dust off the Sea Bass Jigging rods and get them cleaned and ready to fish. The Sea Bass are stcked up on all of our offshore reefs by the thousands! We use artificials to make this trip LOTS more interesting, and the mess on the boat is minimal in comparison to using cut bait.
Although Sea Bass are a bit on the tricky side to catch with a jig, you'll learn the feel of a bigger fish when he has latched on tight. It'll be more of a steady "Tug" than a nibble or bite. And, with the tacke we use, get
ready to put a BEND IN THE ROD! The biggest reason I use jigs is the FACT that they catch BIGGER FISH. PERIOD. You simply DO NOT have to set the hook if you feel small Bass pecking at your offering. You can wait on the bigger
fish once you've learned how they feel on the rod, and we'll have you doing that in a few short drifts over the chosen fishing area.
I have had several divers tell me that if these fish were any bigger, they would be dangerous to dive with. They are an extremely aggresive bottom feeder, and they're here to spawn during the Fall/Winter months off the Georgia Coastal Areas where structure or live bottom is present.
Several trips from Golden Isles Marina in December has shown me once again which color Jigs work best. As I thumb through my notes, I can see it hasn't changed since I started fishing with jigs for these Sea Bass. They like anything with bright green in the color pattern of the Jig. The more green, the better. Screw tails work well, but the bass will snap the tail off fairly easy, so I lean toward using a paddle tail Jig instead. The Jig head color of choice will be red, and aways has been. We have tried ALL colors available and we've even painted a few of them to match the bait the fish are feeding on. I have done the home work on this for years, so save your money and time and buy RED JIG HEADS.
As the months go by and Spring approcahes once again, these fish will be caught by the cooler full. That says one thing. You'd better get out there before all the bigger fish are in someone elses freezer. I can guarantee you'll catch plenty of Bass if you fish from now through January. It will get a bit cold, but the benefits of the cold weather exist on several levels. The main benefit is there are tons of bass out there right now. Another benefit is most people won't fish because it's too cold and always rough offshore. Well, if you can get up and go at the drop of a hat, prepare to catch plenty of fish! Don't let this cold weather hold you up.
You just can't beat the Fall season for Inshore and Offshore Fishing in Coastal Georgia. More times than not, it's a trip worth remembering whether you target Sea Bass, Trigger Fish, Reds, Trout or Flounder. Book it today before it's all over!
Good Fishing!
Capt. Richie Lott
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Captain Judy Helmey
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 08, 2001 - 10:27 pm: | |
Subject: Fall Fishing
CAPTAIN JUDY HELMEY
"Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956"
POB 30771
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31410
912 897 4921
912 897 3460 FAX
www.missjudycharters.com
October 8, 2001
INSHORE
I can already tell that it's going to be a productive inshore fishing season. This is due to the fact that the proof is already taking place. The trout are hitting live shrimp on the traditional float rigs and you can even switch to artificial once you get them in a feeding frenzy. The Spottail bass are basically legal, which means most caught are over 14 inches. You best bait is still going to be live shrimp. However a combination of artificial screw tail and fresh dead will work. The larger Spottail bass prefer finger mullet to live shrimp. Your main bait of shrimp is plentiful. Bring you cast net and catch your own. For those who don't want to mess with the old cast net most marina and tackle stores have plenty to sell.
OFFSHORE
I love fishing at this time of the year. There is one very good reason why I feel this way and that is because I do usually catch lots of fish. This is due to the fact that the artificial reefs and hard bottom areas are full of bottom fish. Not only do I know when they arrive I know where they are going, which makes my job of making my charters customers happy a lot easier. I might need to add that I have been following fish and their habits for almost forty years.
Here are some of my suggestions for catching not fishing:
All artificial reefs located off of Georgia are holding some type of fish either bottom or top fish. The reefs that are located in less than 50 feet of water that are made up of low relief structure such as concrete, tire sections, low flat barges with some height structure, and pallet balls are your best spots for finding bottom fish. The biggest build up of bottom fish, such as Black Sea bass, blue fish, sheepshead, and trout can be found holding on all of the above. However, look to find sheepshead on the higher structure. All of the above fish, with the exception of the sheepshead will hit squid or shrimp. However, I have caught sheepshead with squid and shrimp on more than one occasion, but they prefer the fiddler crab the best. For artificial reefs and hard bottom areas that are located in 50 and over are also holding lots of bottom fish, but you can add king mackerel to the mix. (see below where you can find the king mackerel) You can catch the bottom fish with just plain old squid or you can target larger fish using live bait. The live bait will get the attention of the larger bottom fish and this is a proven fact. The down side to targeting only big fish is that you won't catch as many as you do the smaller ones. That's a decision that you have to make. At this time of the year this is all possible for anyone that puts a loaded hook in the water. Go get them!
Top water-fishing season for Spanish mackerel is not over. In fact this past week large schools of surface feeding Spanish were seen by the Wassaw Sea buoy and in Tybee Roads areas. Give those Clark spoons and any of your favorite surface pulling plugs out because I can guarantee that they will work on these fish they are real hungry. The fall/winter run of the king mackerel has started. The L-Buoy, J-Buoy, CCA-Buoy, and Gray's Reef are the spots where these fish migrate too during the cooler months. The bait has been here for a couple of weeks. Now that the big fish have arrived and they are ready for action. All I can say is "It's tight lines time again!"
GULF STREAM
Haven't gone in a while the Northeast winds have kept me from going, but I am looking forward to seeing the blue water once again. It's wahoo time for sure! Soon we will know for sure!
Luther who runs the "White Knight" took the ride. However, the catching wasn't very good. He worked the South ledge and had only one knock down. They only saw a few schools of little tunny in that area. They moved back into the R 6 naval tower and caught quite a few king mackerel.
Due to our high and long lasting northeast winds over the past few weeks the Savannah Snapper Banks are covered with patches live Sargasso weeds. This weed is providing a great haven for smaller fish. Where there is bait, you will probably find larger fish. There were a few dolphins and king mackerel caught this past week from under these floating gold mines.
Little Miss Judy's Believe it or Not!
I think I have already established the fact that daddy was a very colorful coastal character. He just saw things his way and he had little regard with the way things were supposed to be. At least when it came to painting his boats, rod/reels, and fishing lures. I remember daddy always having numerous cans of colored spray paint stored up in bow of his boat. He kept these cans up right in a cardboard box. This is what I called his emergency change-o-color lure kit.
The most popular lure from his time was the famous "Cisco Kid." I am not talking about a plastic, molded lure with eyes that shake and rattle. I am talking about a wooden, hand crafted lure with life like eyes. This wooden lure had style and it caught lots of fish, especially big cobia. This was my daddy's favorite fish to catch. When daddy was fighting a cobia, he always had twinkle in his eye. Back in those days the color of the lure was very important, but the tackle store couldn't always get what you wanted. Daddy had a method, when the fished stopped hitting his present color lure he would simply change it, but not like you think. It was very simple, he held the lure up by the line that it was tied to and simply sprayed it the color he though would work the best. The basic colors were red, white, black, sliver, gold, and blue, he also did two tone paint jobs. His explanation for the two tone lures was very simple, on some feeding occasions the fish looks up and on others they choose to look down when scanning for their next meal. After his fast paint job, he would wave the lure a little, and then throw it back into the water. There was a problem with his painting technique, you better not be standing down wind of the paint spray.
Sea You Later
Captain Judy
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Captain Judy Helmey
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Subject: Georgia Offshore
CAPTAIN JUDY HELMEY
"Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956"
POB 30771
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31410
912 897 4921
912 897 3460 FAX
ww.missjudycharters.com
July 30, 2001
The fishing has been a little strange this past week. We have had lots of rain, extremely high tides, lots of marsh grass everywhere, water is muddy, high winds, which has caused the fish bite inshore and offshore to be a little off. However, with all this behind us our summer fishing routine should continue without anymore delays!
INSHORE
The fish bite should continue to be long and hard, especially when it comes to the trout and bass species. There have been record amounts of these fish being caught in the creeks, rivers, and sounds in our area. Live shrimp seems to be the bait to get them started and finishing up is easy with grubs, screw tail, or assassins. The float rig called Cagan Popper is making the noise that is prompting fish to take the bait, regardless of whether they are hungry or not. I have been using chartreuse colored ones for a number of surface feeding fish. Just attached the popper to your snap swivel and put your favorite artificial lure in tow. Keep the float moving, popping, and the fish will charge the float. Hopefully, they will get the hook, not your float.
The tarpon fishing season is at its peek. I am basically what you would call a "Tarpon Watcher." At least that is what I do best in my 31-foot boat. I am still seeing large schools of these fish feeding from Cabbage Island, along red marker 16 in Warsaw Sound, and all the way out to the Warsaw Sea buoy. To the south of our area, large schools of these fish have been spotted feeding near the sounds and inlets. You best bait to use in live menhaden, mullet, or mackerel. These fish are big, with most being over 100 pounds. Beef up your tackle and get ready for the pull of a lifetime. Please carefully release all of these fish!!
OFFSHORE
I have been writing a lot about Spanish mackerel, because it's the best time to target these fish, which are so fun to catch. They have been following their usual daily feeding routine for this time of the year. When the tide is slack, the schools push the bait pods to the surface. This is you best catching situation. The rule of thumb with mackerel is that if you can see them you can catch them. However, when they are holding deep, you have to fish deep to get them. With the tide being so strong this past week, the mackerel have been holding close to the bottom. I have been using a #3 planer with a medium clark spoon 15 feet in tow. It's not as much fun as light tackle fishing, but a fish is a fish and you will catch one using this method.
King mackerel can be found from 30 to 150 feet of water. Since this covers a large area let me give you some hints. Tybee Roads and the rip that hangs one mile off of the Warsaw Sea Buoy is holding large king mackerel, better known as smokers. Use menhaden or mullet for bait. Slow troll is your best bet. The artifical reefs, L Buoy, J Buoy, CCA, and L Buoy are holding lots of surface bait, which in turn brings in the mackerel. However, barracuda have been thrown into the mix. Stay away from the wrecks and concentrate on the outer areas. King mackerel will feed on the bait that is hanging around the edges of the Wrecks. Barracuda feed and lay near the surface just down current from the wrecks. I have been pulling #3 planers with drone spoons on a 30 feet leader. Your trolling speed should be about 6 knots. Pull ridged ballyhoo in your outriggers, but don't troll them to far back. This fish want action. I have been pulling aliens ridged with ballyhoo and this bait has proven itself more than once. The king mackerel that are located at these areas run from 7 to 40 pounds. Trolling with planers and ridged ballyhoo usually attracts the smaller kings with an occasional smoker hookup. You can expect to catch large kings when use live bait, either by drifting or slow troll.
The bottom has been a little mixed up this past week. With the strong currents that we have been experiencing, I have been fishing completely by the tide method. Fish one hour before to one hour after the tide change. This is the time when the current is at its least. This is the best tide to use live bait for red snapper and grouper. The other bottom fish will also take advantage of the slack tide. Give squid and cut fish a try.
GULF STREAM
I know I have told you that the light switch has turned off in the blue water, at least as far as top water fishing goes. However, from the reports I have been getting and from my fishing experiences, please do go and give it a try!! It's not spring fishing, but wahoo, school dolphin, yellow fin tuna, marlin, and sailfish can be caught at this time of the year. It's not a consistence bite, but it's possible. Here's a great tip; you are going to have to add stringers to your rigs. The fish aren't taking the bait in their normal mode and feeding it back doesn't seem to help. You have to have a rig that counts on that first initial hit.
LITTLE CAPTAIN JUDY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
Fishing for tripletail in the sixties was always a unique experience. Especially when Daddy was in charge. Not only was the fishing exciting, but also the stories that came along with the fishing day. These fish that daddy caught were so big that they wouldn't fit into out dip net. So daddy had to gaff them with his homemade wooden handle gaff. The three tail sections on these tripletails were as big as a regular size paper plate. He used a simple beefed up traditional float rig to catch them. For bait he used live prawn shrimp, which we would catch our selves. We made a short stop at one of Daddy's favorite shrimp holes and catch all we needed with only a few casts of the net. It was a simple thing in the good old days to catch bait in a short period of time. My father's secret triple tail hole was a little inshore of Bloody Point. There was a broken off range marker that he used as a reference. We also fished around the piling for the triple tail. They were either sunning by the pilings or in the deep hole. My father knew for sure when and why the fish were there. I just knew it was fun to watch and listen to the stories that he would tell. "Bloody Point" is beach located on Daufuskie Island. The island at this time wasn't developed. Daddy told me the most interesting story about how "Bloody Point" got its name. According to Daddy's folklore during the settlement of Savannah ships made their way up the Savannah River. Upon reaching the mouth of the Big Savannah River any undesirable occupants were tossed overboard. The types of people throw out were the sick, weak, or maimed. I might add they weren't murdered, there were just tossed overboard to fin for themselves. As Daddy's legend has it those that were strong enough to stay a float with the current usually landed on the beach. However, there were those that were attacked by large sharks on there drift to the beach. Those that were attacked usually did float to the beach either partially or the parts causing the point to be covered in blood. Now you know the rest of the story. No I didn't have nightmares as a small child.
Sea You Later,
Captain Judy
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Captain Judy Helmey
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Subject: Savannah Georgia Offshore Fishing
CAPTAIN JUDY HELMEY
"Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956"
POB 30771
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31410
912 897 4921
912 897 3460 FAX
www.missjudycharters.com
July 16, 2001
INSHORE
It's that time of the year when the Spottail bass are just about everywhere that you throw your hook. However, you will need to put them in your fish stretcher to be able to keep them. Most of the Spottail bass are all running are about 11 to 12 inches in length. As we all know they have to be 14 inches (tail length) to keep them. Large Spottail bass are still being caught in the surf at Savannah Beach. They are hitting cut mullet and the bass seem to prefer that bait to shrimp. The smaller fish that are being caught in the creeks and rivers are hitting mostly live shrimp. You can catch and practice on these fish while you are fishing for the trout. They all are mixed and feeding together. By the way, I was just kidding about the fish stretcher. Some secrets just shouldn't be talked about.
Another inshore fish to target at this time of the year is the great flat flounder. These fish are known for burying themselves in the sand so well that they are unnoticeable not only to you, but any unsuspecting small fish that might unfortunately swim by. Don't associate these fish with the group of fish that isn't likely to move quickly. This fish is known to see like a rabbit, to be sneaky like a fox, and strike like a cobra. Live bait such as mud/small minnows or live shrimp will work for these fish. The livelier the bait the better. As with any fish, bait presentation is of the most importance. Use a rig that will put and keep your bait near the bottom, but will also allow it to swim seemly freely. A flounder can't resist this sort of fleeing situation.
Here a little need to know information about flounder habits. They always seem to lie on the bottom facing the current. This situation makes it easier for them breathe and it's usually where their potential meals come from. So therefore your fishing strategy should be to anchor so that you can cast your bait so that the current can deliver it directly to the fish. You should already know which way the fish is looking for it intended meal to be delivered. They like to move around on the slack tide. This is due to the fact it's hard to get enough oxygen while still or dug into the sand. This is not necessarily the best time to fish for them. They have more on their mind than eating. Incoming tide is the best time because the water is usually a little clearer. The ideal moving water is about 1 to 2 knots. Let me know how this works and by all means send me some pictures.
OFFSHORE
I have been doing a little Spanish mackerel fishing this past week and have come to a few conclusions. For one, you don't have to go far to catch these fish. I started trolling at red marker #16 in Warsaw sound and also started catching these fish as I headed to green buoy #13. I had been seeing them jump occasionally as I was heading home in the afternoon. So I though I would give it a try and it worked. Now don't get me wrong, in the sound, you can't get a lot of fish out of the same school. However, you can get a few mackerel out of each school, which leads me to my next conclusion. The schools were holding in the same spot. I found three bait pods in a holding pattern. I visited each pod making only one pass over the school, catching my fish and moving on to the next group. It's scientific, don't you know. Give it a try, you don't need a big boat to target these fish.
King mackerel fishing is hot and cold. One day you will catch lots of snakes and the next day you will get in the smokers. Both sizes of fish are usually caught on the same bait, at the same time. I have been catching my fish trolling with drone spoons deep and ridged ballyhoo on the surface. My trolling speed is around 6 to 7 knots, depending on the sea conditions. Other Captains have been catching their fish with down riggers and live bait. This being the slow-troll effect, which is executed by bumping the boat in and out of, gear just enough to keep your lines from crossing. This works very well and you never know for sure what fish you might catch. There were a few large red snapper caught last week doing this type of fishing.
The best bait to use for slow troll is menhaden (porgies) ribbon fish, or greenies. You can catch most of this bait around the buoys located at the artificial reefs. These fish don't have air bladders and last longer at most depths.
The red snapper and grouper fishing have maintained about the same crazy feeding habits, on the bite and off. As long as you keep providing these fish with live bait they will eventually give in and take the whole fish. I have found that if you keep moving from ledge to ledge you have a better chance of catching the big one. You can fish the same three ledges, but you must rotate so that you don't scare the fish back into their safety zone.
GULF STREAM
Now that the blue season is basically over you don't have to worry about making that long boat ride. However, for those of you who have to go listen to this. Captain Mike Carbo (Natalie Jean) caught wahoo, dolphin, and large king mackerel last week in this not blue water season. I might add that the fish weren't small. It was hard picking up the wahoo, which weighted in at over 65 pounds. All of these fish were caught to the north of Savannah and in the Deli Ledge area. He didn't have a lot of barracuda hits, which is very unusual at this time of the year. So therefore, blue water fishing has only slowed down for some! Let's drag those lines!
LITTLE CAPTAIN JUDY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
July 16, 2001
There has been a lot of talk about sharks lately. So here is a good shark story that my daddy use to tell all of our customers that supposedly happened during the middle fifties. Here's how it was told to me. A large boat such as one that I have listed below was fishing the warm waters of the Gulf Stream for a large fish such as a marlin or big tuna. A rather large fish did hit one of their lines and a lengthy fight took place. As soon as they realized it was a mako shark they all knew that they had a fight on their hands. Well, they decided that they wanted to try and land this 500-pound plus fish. So they came up with a foolproof plan. The boat was equipped with a gin pole, which basically is a hoist type rig, which had a flying gaff attached. The plan seemed simple. They were going to get the big shark next to the boat, set the gaff, and hoist it up on the gin pole. Sounds good but as usual best-laid plans don't always work. They managed to get the shark next to the boat, the gaffer set the gaff, and the designated others were ready to act out their part. They were all ready for their job. Well, here's what happened as soon as the gaff was set. They started hoisting the shark up, it started going crazy. The Shark got off the gaff, but didn't fall back into the water, but rather into the cockpit of the boat. This is a bad thing. As I mentioned this was a big shark, very strong, and not even ready to die. So therefore it started thrashing back and forth destroying everything in its path. The fighting chair, which was previously attached, became a free moving object. Any thing that wasn't attached was flying and the things that were didn't last long before they also became moving objects. Finally the big shark, but only after what seemed to be many long minutes came to rest or so they though. All of the fishermen jumped out of the safety of the cabin. They tied a rope around the shark's tail and pulled this magnificent fish up with the gin pole. When they got the sharks tail to the top of the pole, it's large head still laid partially on the gunnel.
They were all very tried from all of the excitement. Just as everyone started to relax the shark came too once again. He started jerking back and forth trying to get off of the pole. Finally realizing that it was over the shark opened its mouth and bit down on the gunnel of this large expensive boat, which is where he died still holding on. When the fishermen arrived home it took crowbars and hammers to get that shark embedded teeth off of the gunnel. According to daddy there was about $15,000.00 worth of damaged done to the boat by the shark that day. I guess you could say, "During the fifties that was considered a lot of money to spend on a one day fishing trip." According to my father this happened on one of these local boats. It was either the "Waterway" or "The Ambos Yacht" or "The Citation" or "The Altimeter." As daddy repeatedly told the story time after time he did make his own changes. Some versions I have to admit were better than others. However, the good thing is that everyone loves a good fish story! How did you like my version?
Sea You Later,
Captain Judy
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Capt. Richie Lott
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Subject: Spinner Shark Mania!
Spring is zooming into Summer and the water temperature is at the 80 degree mark. This is great news for those of you who are interested in catching big fish without taking a 2 hour boat ride to the fish. Within 30 minutes from the Marina, you'll be fishing this time of the year as our Bait supply is more than adequate.
Spinner Sharks, Tarpon and Jack Crevalle will be at the top of the list for large fish targets near the beach.
We have been able to net our live Menhaden just minutes from the Marina and the size of the bait is simply huge. This is exactly what the doctor ordered when our target fish exceeds 50 pounds, and on most trips, we have exceeded this size range into the 100 pound class fish size.
We are big fans of light tackle, so prepare for the most incredible fishing experience imaginable as the larger fish rip 200 yards of 40 pound line off the spool without missing a beat! You just can't beat this time of year for fishing!
It will only get better from here and it's tough to imagine the fishing being any better than it is now. We could possibly witness the best fishing in 10 years with a "Real Winter" behind us and good Weather ahead!
Good Fishing!
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Capt. Richie Lott
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 8:44 pm: | |
Subject: Head Offshore for Sheepshead!
Once again, the Sheepshead have proven themselves to be productive on the offshore artificial reefs in Coastal Georgia.
The angler above displays a Sheep in the 10 pound range. This fish was just one of the 90 hard hitting Sheepshead caught on a 6 hour trip. Their sizes ranged form 1 pound to 10 pounds!
The large Black Drum were also on the scene often running a pile of line off the reel before turning back toward the boat. Black Sea Bass were far and few in between, but we managed to boat 8 nice ones.
Using small crabs for bait and dropping a "shell bomb" to the bottom is a deadly combination for late winter fishing action on the offshore reefs.
A shell bomb consists of a paper bag full of crushed barnacles and oyster shells. We tie this on to the end of a line and send it down on top of the structure to be fished. After a couple of minutes, give a hard snatch on the rod and the paper bag tears open leaving the contents all over the bottom.
Wait about 2 minutes and drop your crabs to the bottom and hold on! Bottom fishing with medium tackle excites me as it is by far my favorite trip to run. You catch fish! Period!
For those who don't know about the excellent table quality of Sheepshead, come on down and I'll be glad to show you how good they are. Great fun to catch, too. This trip is a must for almost any age!
Good Fishing!
For information on any of Georgia's fishing, please contact us.
Tight Lines,
Capt. Richie Lott
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Capt. Richie Lott
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Subject: Great Year so far on the Georgia Coast
Those who think Georgia has no fish on our short 100 mile coast are sadly mistaken as this has been a great year for all species.
The Tarpon and Shark bite were both strong this year with most local guides reporting shark and tarpon on almost every trip and also quite a few jack crevalle to mix things up a bit.
The Black Tip Sharks bit well this year, too. However, last year was better as we have had commercial drift netters pounding our coast killing all of our large sharks since the early 90's. Their catch quota's get lower each year so maybe they will fish themselves right out of a job!
On a brighter note, the Inshore redfish and trout have started to bite well as the water slowly cools and Fall moves in dragging one cold front after another to aid this cooling.
Also, it looks like this will be a premier season for bait size shrimp in the rivers as local bait shrimpers have kept the tanks stocked for the trout and red fishermen.
The large bull redfish will begin moving in large numbers on the offshore bars from Georgia to the Carolina's over the next 2 months offering excellent surf fishing to those who are lucky enough to access the correct areas.
That about wraps it up for the Georgia Coast Recap of the Year so far.
Tight Lines,
Capt. Richie Lott
877-767-3243
http://www.charterfish.net |
tarponslayer
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Subject: check it out
www.bridgeandpierfishing.com, a cool video, I get seasick |
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