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Fishing
Saltwater: Inshore: Very good. “The inshore fishing has been some of the best I’ve seen in years for specks,” said Capt. Greg Hildreth. “It seems like every place you fish is holding good numbers of trout! I’ve been catching them on float rigs using live shrimp as well as DOA shrimp and Spike-It grubs. The…
“There’s a push. It’s a school of mullet, but maybe some reds are nearby,” Stu Apte of Islamorada, Fla. exclaimed as we quietly rounded a shallow, oyster-shell-laden point still within sight of the launch. I killed the trolling motor and my partners for the day flung flies to the shell-lined bank. My partner astern was…
Inshore: Very good for redfish (see the article on page 50). The fishing for sea trout is also good. Capt. David Newlin said they’ve been catching good numbers of trout around St. Catherine and Ossabaw on live shrimp, and they’ve just started taking artificials pretty good. Capt. Judy Helmey has also been spending some time…
“Tell me again why we’re doing this,” I asked Dan Foster as he checked his cast net for tangles. “If the shrimp are here, you’ll see on the first throw,” said Dan. It was a blustery day in late October 1988, and the location was Jointer Creek, one of many tidal waterways located between…
Saltwater: Inshore: The inshore fishing for trout and redfish has been very good on the south part of Georgia’s coast around the Golden Isles and St. Simons. Capt. Greg Hildreth said he has been using live shrimp under slip-cork rigs and fishing in the creeks and in the sound area. “The cast-netting for shrimp has…
This has been a banner year for flounder along the Georgia coast. Catches have been big in both size and numbers, and the bite is still running strong. Charles McGill of Middleburg, Fla. and I made a trip to the coast looking for some flounder in August and found a number of locations where almost…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Jack McGowan of Miss Judy Charters said the fishing has been good despite hot, humid days and pop-up thunderstorms that have muddied the water. Lots of small summer trout about 12 inches in length are showing on the sandbars. Capt. Judy Helmey also reports good action the past weekend (August 25) near…
The twin Yamaha 250s on the back of the big Contender offshore rig screamed as they came out of the water. In the next second the boat crashed into a 4-foot swell and leapt forward, at 45 mph, to meet the next wave which hit the bow almost immediately. We were racing back to the…
Inshore: Good for redfish and trout, but quality fish have been a bit more difficult to catch lately. For trout, try float-cork rigs with live shrimp or artificial shrimp fished around piers and shell beds. For redfish, try soft jerkbaits. Capt. Judy Helmey reports an ususual inshore bite — large Spanish mackerel were being caught…
As if on cue, a shrimp burst from the water, turned a somersault, fell back, skipped across the surface, and disappeared in a violent explosion. Too bad for the shrimp — it was carrying a hook and never had chance. A fraction of a second later, the float disappeared behind a bulge of water and…
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