Captain Judy Helmey
Miss Judy Charters
"Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956!"
124 Palmetto Drive
Savannah, Georgia 31410
912 897 4921 or 912 897 3460 fax
www.missjudycharters.com
August 25, 2008
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King Mackerel Catching Report!
Trolling Man is at it again!
Shelby Merrick IV while fishing the "Fishin Fool" has had some great catching days. He called the other day and offered up yet another trolling plan, which is now being called "Winning Plan!" Before I get down to "the plan" itself, here's what Shelby's fishing crew caught: "20 king mackerel, 21/2 parts of king mackerel, 7 barracuda, and 30 little tunny!" Now you know what they caught..here's how they did it!
Captain Shelby started at the artificial reef CCA, also referred to as the bridge, with his trolling plan. His line up was about as simple as it can get. He pulled various sizes of Drone Spoons behind #3 planers, which were definitely a hit with most of the fish listed above. He leader lengths between the planer and the spoon ranged from 15 to 30 feet. Shelby changed up to what worked and made it happen!
On his out riggers he pulled lines of plastic squid with rigged naked ballyhoo in tow. This lure brings on the attention of just about any fish that might happen by. However, Shelby's real interest while pulling these top water lure set ups was "Sail Fish!"
During this time of the surface temperature being the same from the shore to the stream, blue water fish wonder and wonder a lot into green waters. I have received at least two sailfish catch and release happenings per week from South Carolina to northern Florida. As the years go it seems that these reports get more numerous!
Captain Shelby's "area trolled" was genius! He pulled the CCA artificial reefs for about an hour and then took a head of around 130 degrees. Once hitting about 75 to 80 feet of water he turn due south for a while and then headed straight to the artificial reef "J" buoys. He never made it to the "J" buoy, because his group was worn out and they made they're home before getting to yet another "Hot Fishing Zone!"
According to this report they had a fish on or a hit just about every 10 minutes. This boils down to lots of deck activities such as reeling in, gaffing of fish, slinging of fish, re-baiting, and re setting of lines. From the bridge point there was a whole lot of "captain thinking about catching fish going on!" Since I am also a captain I know this drill and love it!