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Fishing
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “The last few days have been really good fishing for trout, redfish and whiting. I have had a lot of trips that we have caught over 75 trout, with some really big ones. A lot of trout are in the 20-inch size range. Most of my trout have been…
Whether you call them whiting or southern kingfish, depends on where you live. The whiting we catch on the Georgia coast are the same fish that folks in Virginia call southern kingfish. For all of us in Georgia, it’s simply whiting. The Georgia DNR Coastal Resources Division tells us that the whiting is the second…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “March has thrown every kind of weather you can think of at us. The water warmed up to 68 degrees and then crashed back down to 56 and was back up to around 64 on March 26. A few more days of warm weather should warm it up to…
Early spring finds wading and water birds of all kinds moving back into the marshes and creeks of Georgia’s coastline. In its relatively short 100 miles—as the crow flies—of coastline, Georgia has more estuary and marshland and more actual shoreline than any other state on the Atlantic coast, sans Florida. That fact is the reason…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “Winter has almost disappeared on the coast. Water temperatures are in the low 60s, and the fish are biting. The last few days we have been catching a lot of trout. On several recent trips we have caught 50-plus trout. The trout bite should get hot in March—everything will…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “The mild weather has kept the water temperature in the low 50s and kept the fish still biting. During the months of January and February, the sheepshead are almost always the fish most anglers target. The hardest part lately has been getting enough bait. The fiddler crabs have been…
Winter to some saltwater anglers means putting away the fishing gear and waiting for the spring weather to show up. But there is no need to do that if you really want to fish. Granted you have to dress for the weather, and it may be a bit uncomfortable, but there are fish to be…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “By the time the month of January rolls around, the inshore fish that are migrating have left, and the ones that are staying have gone into the hibernation mode. Spotted seatrout during this time are normally wintering in deep holes in the rivers or sounds. The best way to catch seatrout…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “Water temperatures have started to fall, and the fish will start heading to deeper water any day. The redfish bite is still hot. This fall the redfish numbers have been the best we have had in years. Right now the redfish are still hitting the usual shrimp under a…
Most Peach State anglers agree that the best three months to catch redfish along the Georgia coast are September, October and November. Not only are the fish there and cooperating, particularly the redfish, but the weather has turned much nicer. It’s a lot more comfortable to fish when you aren’t sweltering in the heat of…
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