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Fishing
At the mouth of the St. Marys River on the Florida-Georgia border, a wide dredged channel runs east into the ocean for about a mile. It is a deep channel, one that allows part of our nuclear submarine fleet access to their port at Kings Bay. On the north and south of the channel, jetties…
Saltwater: Inshore: The fishing for sea trout is fair right now, and it will quickly move up to the excellent rating in the next week or so as the water temperatures continue to climb. Some good catches of trout have come on live shrimp on slip-float rigs. There have already been some nice catches of…
I remember my first hot seatrout bite like it was yesterday. My father and I pulled my small jonboat within casting range of an oyster-shell point in a creek slicing through Saint Simons Island at the beginning of flood tide. As the water began easing its way up the point, seatrout swarmed from the deeper…
Inshore: The trout fishing has slowed down with all the cold weather we have been having, according to Capt. Greg Hildreth. “The trout that are being caught have moved into the deeper holes in 12 to 20 feet and are being taken with boot-tail minnows and lead heads. The most productive colors have been the…
Greg has guided full time in the Golden Isles area for the last 13 years, with much of his time during the last several years spent on a poling platform in pursuit of red- fish. When not on the water on a guide trip, he spends time in his shop producing some of the finest…
Saltwater: Inshore: Excellent for redfish, tough for trout. “This is the weather we have been needing to get these reds bunched up,” said Capt. Greg Hildreth. “While the trout fishing has slowed down a bit, the sight fishing for the reds is really getting good. I have been seeing large schools — 50 to 100…
Saltwater: Inshore: December was a good month for spotted sea trout and redfish. With cold weather coming, the trout will feed normally until the water gets below 45 degrees, according to Capt. Judy Helmey. “During these cold times, the trout will take to the deeper holes going into what is known as ‘the hibernation mode.’…
Inshore: The inshore fishing is on fire right now both on the southern Georgia coast and up in the Savannah area. “It has been one of the best fall bites we have had in a while,” said Capt. Greg Hildreth, who fishes out of Golden Isles Marina on St. Simons. “The Low Country Lighting Corks…
Each year thousands of stingrays are caught by saltwater anglers looking for speckled trout, redfish, and other gamefish. Some of the unlucky ones find out why they’re called stingrays. “Hooks are cheaper than doctor bills,” is an old adage in saltwater fishing. For 20 years I’ve been saying that to novice anglers when warning them…
Each year, Georgia DNR releases millions of hatchery-reared fish to create and enhance fishing opportunities for freshwater anglers. This year that effort expanded with the first-ever release of hatchery-reared red drum fingerlings into coastal waters. Between mid-August and late September, more than 750,000 small red drum, also known as redfish or simply reds, were freed…
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