Miss Judy Charters
Captain Judy Helmey
"Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956!"
124 Palmetto Drive
Savannah, Georgia 31410
912 897 4921 or 912 897 3460 fax
www.missjudycharters.com
August 27, 2007
Captain Judy's Saltwater Fishing Report
Which includes:
Inshore report, Offshore Report, Freshies Suggestions, and "Little Miss Judy's Believe It or Not!" (Story)
"Little Miss Judy's Believe It or Not!"
Ours Thank Goodness "Not Theirs!"
I am always writing about stories "spun by the unbelievable doings" of my father. I thought I would change it up a bit and tell a story about something that happened to me last year while I was fishing a mere 10 miles offshore.
It happened on a day when the visibility wasn't too good. However, to trained eyes that has been on the water for a long while objects from a distance can be correctly identified. While looking offshore I notice a sight that I had only seen on television or in the movies. (The movie "Red October" came to mind first.) The nuclear submarine shape that I was seeing was in fact exactly what it looked like.
I picked up my marine radio to make a report to the coast guard. Included in my report were the GPS coordinates. The coast guard took the numbers down and respectfully asks me to stand by, which I did. A few moments passed and the coast guard radioman told me that coordinates rendered had to be wrong because they were in less than 20 feet. I noticed right away that they didn't ask for a repeat of the coordinates.
Knowing what I had seen with my own eyes as well as others on the boat I pick up my cell phone and called the coast guard station. At first they "hemmed hawed" what sometimes is call "coast guard shuffle." Meaning that they can't say, "what's really going on!" I then said, "You asked that we report anything unusual!" He laughed and agreed that I certainly did need to report this one. I didn't have to ask "Ours or theirs!"
Here's My Line Now Bite My Hook!
Captain Judy
"Fish Whisperer!"