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Fishing Reports
A 49-year-old Kingsland man boated a record-breaking red grouper off the Georgia coast Oct. 4 and has been certified as the new state record holder for that species. Bruce C. Bartlett Jr. caught the 26-lb., 6.4-oz. red grouper (Epinephelus morio) that measuring 34.5 inches while fishing east of Navy Tower R4 aboard his boat Fishslaya Duece.…
Georgia Saltwater Fishing Reports Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “Spotted seatrout, redfish, sheepshead, black drum and flounder might feed at different times of the tides. However, all of them like live shrimp. You can serve it up anyway you like from naked, with or without any sort of leader or weight, or under popping or adjustable…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “July has been a good month of fish catching. We have caught fish from flounder, big trout, monster black drum to sharks and tarpon. The weather has been the usual hot July type weather. The water temps have been in the mid-80s. In August, the water will probably get…
Fishing is great, and one reason is that you never really know what lurks down there and might take an interest in your lure. However, when you’re dragging a Carolina-rigged lizard in the Ocmulgee River and feel that tap-tap, an angler has to think largemouth bass. Not so fast… Wayne Nall, a longtime GON subscriber…
Funny, the things that run through your mind at a time like this… “It’s an overlooked fishery,” guide Capt. Garrett Ross had said. Three fishermen in a boat 75 yards away have been fruitlessly beating the bank’s rip-rap up and down for at least the last 20 minutes. Mere yards beyond them, the 8 a.m.…
Georgia DNR is working with NOAA Fisheries to collect data on harvest, discards and fishing effort during the red snapper recreational mini-season scheduled to open later next week. Recreational anglers will be allowed to harvest red snapper in federal waters of the South Atlantic during the weekend of July 9-11. Each recreational angler is allowed…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “For those inshore fishermen who just want to catch fish, purchase or catch live shrimp. Last month live shrimp was hard to come by. Brown shrimp in the Turner Creek and Wilmington River areas just didn’t grow big enough fast enough to be caught in a net or used on…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “The month of May has been a good month of fishing and fish catching. Water temperatures have been up and down the last few weeks. On May 20, the temperature at Fort McAllister was 76 degrees. It was 78 for a couple days and then fell to 71. By…
MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY! Absolutely the last thing any captain wants to ever hear, or say, across a VHF radio. The decisions he or she has made up until that very instant, going back months, weeks, days, minutes, even seconds, could very well mean the difference between life or death for their crew and themselves. In…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “With the month of May at bay, the fish bite is more dependable and predictable. During this time, live shrimp can be caught holding on mud banks, deeps holes, backs of creeks and of course at the bait shops. In May, the spotted seatrout bite is joined with the flounder bite,…
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