CAPTAIN JUDY HELMEY
"Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956"
POB 30771
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31410
912 897 4921
912 897 3460 FAX
www.missjudycharters.com
August 18, 2008
Happy Fish Day!
Saltwater inshore, offshore, blue water fishing report, Freshies Suggestions, and "Little Miss Judy's story! Thanks for reading! Captain Judy
Scattered Live Bottom Before the Snapper Bank
Captain Scott Abernathy and crew fished a piece of live bottom, which is located about 25 miles off the Warsaw Sea buoy. The first thing that they did was to start with trolling, which turned out to be a catching event. While trolling Drone spoons behind #2 and #3 planer they caught king mackerel, Spanish mackerel and Bonita. This boils down to the fact that they caught fish with not a thing but "pulled steel!" When this bite slowed they started bottom fishing and caught black sea bass, vermilion, hognose snapper and triggerfish. While making their last drift a curious "Mahi Mahi" AKA dolphin fish was hooked up and landed.
As Captain Scott watched the dolphin fish cruise around the boat his mind was fixed on trying to get it to eat something. The first thing that they did was to throw out some small pieces of cut bait. This kept the fish's attention for a few seconds, but as dolphin go their attention span is short. With the deck crew moving quickly to come up with a plan, Captain Scott grabbed the wash down hose and began spraying it on the surface. This splashing appeared to look like a school of small fish on the surface. This put the fish's attentions on the so-called artificial school of bait giving the crew time to "get more bait ready!" With the dolphin ready to kill and eat it quickly advanced finding pieces of floating baits, which by the way had a hook inside. The hook up took place before the fish knew it! The rest is catching history!