“Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956”

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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31410

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October 24, 2011

Saltwater Inshore, Offshore, Blue Water fishing reports, Freshies Suggestions, and “Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or Not story! Thanks for Reading!

Table of Contents

Spotted sea trout bite is good!

Red fish and their names

Red fish on red fish off!

Artificial Reefs It’s always good to practice a little “catch and release!”

Savannah Snapper Banks Vermilion snapper and grouper!

Blue Water Suggestions by EX TRA SEA Sword Fishing Team Sword fishing off Georgia coast

Freshies report How to build a temporary freshwater artificial reef

Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or not Story! Happy Halloween!

Spotted Sea Trout Bite is good!

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Picture by Captain Matt Williams

Inshore fishermen are having a great fall spotted sea trout bite. Our captains have been catching undersize, the right size, and over size spotted sea trout. There is one thing that all trout have in common and that’s they love to kill and eat live shrimp. With that being said…get out your adjustable floats and fish at different depths until you find the bite. My father used to say especially during trout time “fishermen just love to see the sinking of the cork.”

Red fish and their names

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Red fish and their names

I wanted to share with you all the names that fishermen call red fish…there is red drum, channel bass, stag bass, and spot tail bass. No matter what you call them we are having

quite a solid inshore red fish bite going on at this time. Best bait is going to be chunk mullet on the bottom or live shrimp under small traditional adjustable floats and short 12 inch fluorocarbon leaders.

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This is what we found when we opened up one of the red fish that we kept. The stomach was so packed with crab’s parts that I could only imagine that the fish was uncomfortable. As soon as we opened the fish’s stomach crab parts fell out.

Red fish on red fish off!

As all fishermen know, a fish eats when it wants to or not. The feeding pattern for red fish is something that you may or may not be able to develop a pattern for. The reason being is if they are feeding heavily on things wrapped in a shell such as snails or fiddlers crabs the fish fills it stomach quicker than the digestive tract can do it’s job. Crabs and their shells are harder to digest and discard. So therefore a fish might still be hungry, but can’t stuff any more down the old gullet. I have seen a red fish’s stomach that was packed so full you couldn’t believe. Check out the picture above.

Artificial Reefs

It’s always good to practice a little “catch and release!”

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Top fish is a male sea bass and the bottom is a female…here is what I have always been taught about this fish….the black fish is born as a female and at a later date turns into a male. The hump on the males back is called a stress hump. According to my father the female deposit so many eggs that the male get stressed out from trying the fertilize all of them.

Artificial Reefs

The black sea bass season closed on October 17, 2011 until June 2011. However, for those that just want to practice catching and release a fun catching day in the ocean can be had by all. Especially during this time there are lots of black sea bass holding on the artificial reefs. The best news is that there are other fish that school there too. This past week while plain old bottom fishing with squid we caught 37 inch trophy red fish, which we tagged, released, and healthy.

Savannah Snapper Banks

Vermilion snapper and grouper!

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Vermilion bite at the Savannah Snapper banks

The bottom fishing at the snapper banks continues to be very good with fishermen getting a chance to catch football size vermilion and freight train pulling grouper. The secret to getting a more solid bite is to use live bait such as cigar minnows or Spanish Sardines. These baits once placed on the bottom will trigger a larger fish bite while scaring the smaller fish off. The vermilion snapper season will be open until October 31, 2011.

Gags and Scamp Grouper bite is ON!

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Scamp Grouper

For offshore fishermen I suggest stopping at the artificial reefs and fill you live well with cigar minnows and Spanish sardines…Put this bait on the bottom and solid action will come to you! Among other good baits, please give ruby red lips also known as tomtate, sand perch, bank bass, vermilion snapper, scup, blue fish, blue runners, and ocean perch. Whatever you do don’t forget your dip net, camera, and lunch!!

For those fishermen that just want to target as well as keep “ONLY” big bottom fish now is the time!!

Blue Water Suggestions

Brought to us by the EX TRA SEA Blue Water Fishing Team

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Photo by EX TRA SEA Sword Fishing Team

Sword fishing off Georgia coast

The EX TRA SEA fishing team has definitely got the right stuff especially when it come to catching sword fish…also known as swordies…while using large rigged squid with stick lights as bait this team has figured out how to catch those that swim and feed so deep. Swordies prefer feeding and holding in water that is well over 500 to 1,000 feet. So therefore this situation puts a whole new light on the meaning of deep dropping for those big fish that sport their own personal sword!!

Freshies report

How to build a temporary freshwater artificial reef

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How to make an freshwater aritifical reef “quit time!”

Pick an area where you have fished or where you know there could be some fish. Grab a couple of cans of dog or cat food. I believe and I think you will too, that cat food is always the best choice. Knock some serious holes into the cans so that the contents can float out as the water gets in. Place cans in water and either go catch some crikets or buy some. By the time you get back instead of “fish on the bed” it will be “fish on, over, and around the old can!”

Whatever you do when knocking holes in can, don’t stab yourself. I am speaking from experience!

Those fishermen that want to “GO FISH LAKE LANIER”

Bill Vanderford is “Lake Lanier’s Legend!”

For more about my long time friend Bill Vanderford as well as his accomplishments, his freshwater charter trips or wildlife tours, books written and his special line up of tackle offered, please visit his site http://www.fishinglanier.com/contact.html for all the details! For more details go http://stores.ebay.com/Fishy-Racer http://www.youtube.com/fishyracer www.cafepress.com/grapefruitshop

to find freshwater pictures from Bill Freshwater pictures in fishing report pictures five

Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or not Story!

Happy Halloween!

It’s amazing how children liked to sit on the front porch. In this case they sat and posed. Bottom left hand side is “Little miss Judy also known as “Judy Bum!” way before she became Captain Judy!” It looks like she was going topless once again!!

Halloween 1958 Style

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My father always took me out for Halloween so that I could collect my annual brown bag of candy. I always dressed up and it was a lot of fun. I tried everything from homemade costumes to the store bought ones. They all seemed to do the trick. However there was this one particular store brought costume that I will never forget. My father saw a cat costume and he brought it home. I was about 7 years old at the time, so therefore dressing up like a cat wasn’t such a bad idea, at least until daddy made certain alterations to the costume. The tail of the cat costume simply just hung there. Daddy checked it out and found that he could stuff my tail with some of the white so-called cotton that he used for caulking repairs on his wooden boats. I didn’t care all I was thinking about was all of the candy that I was going to get and how much I could eat in one night. After stuffing the tail with the so-called cotton he created a big problem. The tail was too heavy so it just fell to the ground. Now I had a cattail that was 3 dimensional, but it wouldn’t stand on its own. I could tell that Daddy was in a mood or maybe he had a few cocktails. Now he broke out the fishing line. His plan was to tie one end to the tail and the other end to the back of my costume, which he did in a fast fashion. I now had me a state of the art moving cattail that actually swayed with my walk. (Remember the lion’s tail in the Wizard of Oz) I was ready to go “Trick a Treating” in my now daddy designer store bought costume.

Our first stop was great! I got lots of compliments on my costumes and plenty of candy. I really made a haul. Daddy even got a beverage to go. As the evening went on my brown bag got heavier. According to Daddy my “Trick a Treating” was just about over, which wasn’t good news, but heck I was a little tired from all of the walking with my tail swaying. We must have visited at least 10 houses. Our last stop had the noise of a barking dog in the background. I was a little afraid of dogs, due to the fact that one of our neighbor’s dog had bitten me once before. I approached the door with caution. The dog was really barking at this point. When the door opened I saw the dog, which didn’t appear to be that large, but it sure had a big mouth. Some how after the owner told me that the dog didn’t bite it escaped heading right for me. (I’m sure I looked like a small deer in headlights!) Of course I did what any seven year old dressed like a cat would do I ran with tail swinging in tow. The dog lunged and became attached to my tail. This as you can imagine slowed me down a bit. I could see my father running toward me, but it seemed as though he was in slow motion. At this point the tail ripped off, but unfortunately the fishing line didn’t break. So now I had the latched dog in tow. Things couldn’t get much worst. I had dropped my brown bag and now had a dog attached to my tail. I finally met up with my father and he immediately picked me up leaving the small dog still hanging. The dog owner apologized as he removed the dog from my tail. The rest of the story is easily figured out, we went home. However the candy haul for this particular house was unbelievable. I guess the bottom line is that you pay for what you get. In this case a little entertainment goes a long way. The moral of this story is a simple one. “So-called cotton was made to stuff only into the cracks of wooden boats and fishing line is made for fishing not tail tying. Any alterations can certainly change the course of an evening.”

Thanks for reading! Captain Judy

Captain Judy Helmey
missjudycharters.com
912 897 4921