Captain Judy Helmey Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956 124 Palmetto Drive Savannah, Georgia 31410 912 897 4921or 912 897 2478 912 897 3460 fax Fishjudy2@aol.com November 26, 2018 Capt Judy inshore offshore fishing report 2019 fishing clinic dates Marsh Hen Recipe! Fishing statement: To try to insure that fishing stays in the hearts of those that love it and to help the ones that are going too! Captain Ryan Howard of Miss Judy Charters took his daughter Rylee age 8 to do a little offshore artificial reef fishing. She is holding nice black sea bass!
While inshore fishing under rough and windy conditions Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters took Bill Kochanik (Savannah) and his three sons! Took his three sons fishing! Mike (red) Christopher (gray black jacket) and David! What for dinner with the family? Blacken freshly caught red fish. And it doesn t get any better than that! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Johnny Blackmon Lawrenceville Ga Tommy Blackmon Auburn Ga and Leo Perez Lawrenceville, had one heck of a catching day!
While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Johnny Tommy Blackmon Auburn Ga caught some really nice spotted sea trout! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Johnny Blackmon Lawrenceville Ga caught this nice spotted sea trout! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Leo Perez Lawrenceville caught this nice spotted sea trout!
While inshore fishing with under some really windy and flooding tide situations Ben Lance and his father Mitch (both Raleigh, NC) had a blast! Why? Because they picked fishing over shopping! Captain Garrett cleaned their fish and they took them over the Flying Fish! The Fish cooked them up, served them family style, and I don t think it can get any fresher than this! After all these fish had only been out of the water less than 3 hours! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Luke Hudgins Conyers Ga (Red) Chris Brunton Conyers Ga had fun day on the water. They are part of the special effects crew that are working with the movie Lady and the Tramp, which is being filmed here. Way to go film commission! What did they catch? Red fish, spotted sea trout, and a few whiting!
Our Captain Kevin Rose of Miss Judy Charters has been doing a little fun fishing, but in his case you could really call it catching! Nice Sheepshead for sure! I love the winter time colors that fish sport this time of the year! 2019 Captain Judy s Inshore/Offshore Fishing Clinics February 23, 2019 Saturday and February 24, 2019 Sunday On inshore/offshore boats in the water $150.00 per person for inshore $150.00 per person for offshore Morning departures Time: 8:00AM till12:00 NOON Afternoon departures Time: 1 PM till 5:00 PM Snacks and drinks provided by Captain Judy Place: Miss Judy Charters dock 202 Wilmington Island Road, Savannah, Georgia 31410 912 897 4921 for more details!
On the freshwater side...we have While inshore with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charter Mickey Holbrook (guide on Lanier) took what is better known a serious busman s holiday! Long time friend Captain Garrett showed Mickey the saltwater catching way! And I am sure when the timing is right Captain Garrett might take Mickey up on his offer to take him to do a little striped bass fishing! Now for those that want to do some saltwater inshore fishing give Miss Judy Charters, 912 897 4921, and book Captain Garrett Ross. For those of you that want to do a little fresh water fishing I highly suggest giving Mickey Holbrook owner operator of MAD GILLZ Fishing Guide Service a call. (470 262 6035) There are two things that we know for a fact...and what is that? Our new fresh water connection is Mickey Holbrook! And I approved this message! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charter Chase Lopes (Florida) had a bonus catching day!
Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters and his daughter Stella are having some great fishing fun. Stella caught this nice red fish all on her own! Go Stella! Stephanie Lopez Florida is sporting that beautiful smile and Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters is holding a nice spotted sea trout that had little something to do with it!
Well, it was officially kiss a Red Fish Day! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Chase Lopez Florida decided to join in on the festivities! Now for the burning question... Did the fish kiss back? No kissing and telling here! Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters along with is daughter Stella and his inshore fishing client for the day Chase Lopes Florida took a great picture. Nice trout!
A Honeymoon Fishing Game! While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Chase and Stephanie Lopez Florida did a little fishing and enjoyed their honeymoon in famous downtown Savannah Georgia! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Mrs. Mary Happy Birthday to you! Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters, Mrs. Mary Rozier and her son Tyrie done oh so good! (Both from Warner Robbins) It is becoming an annual family affair. Tyrie always tries to take his mother fishing for her birthday celebration! So far so good! Now Mrs. Mary had a grand time catching some nice keeper fish. However, when she caught one too small and while it was being released, she always would say, Now you know that fish would fit just fine in my frying pan!
Artificial Reefs The artificial reefs are holding some nice spotted sea trout, black sea bass, white bone porgy, ocean perch, flounder, trophy red fish, and who knows what other kinds of fish that might bite your hook! A genuine family affair! Captain Ryan Howard of Miss Judy Charter took his brother Donnie Howard, his nephew Mason age 11 (both from Raleigh, NC) and his daughter Rylee age 8 to do a little offshore artificial reef fishing.
Captain Kathy Brown of Miss Judy Charters is holding a nice gag grouper aka Freight train pulling grouper that goes very nicely with her red shirt! What does a big fish like this want to eat? Just about anything that will fit in its mouth! What else is Captain Kathy holding? Grouper fingers, grouper fillets, blacken grouper, grilled grouper, and I think you get the picture! Toot Toot goes the grouper Here s an interesting piece of information. Grouper not only travel in schools, but also in cadence and unison. This all boils down to not only in harmony, but also song. Most grouper have an ability to flap their jaw plates together so as to make a loud underwater musical thumbing sound. This is the sound that they make before moving from some sort of structure. My guess is that these are warning sounds of sorts. I am assuming that this is the sound that gives a big head ups to those possibly in their path that a large fish stampede is just about to take place. Or it is just the signature noise that a freight train pulling grouper makes right before leaving the ledge. So now this is just one more reason to call them freight train pulling grouper! Why? Most trains do got a whistle! Savannah Snapper Banks For those that want to make a last stand...grouper season is open until December 31, 2018..what does that mean? The days left to legally keep grouper are winding down. So therefore, it s time to go offshore fishing!
Little Miss Judy s Believe It or Not! Yep this exactly one of the wooden row boats that we used when my father and I would go marsh hen hunting! Scaring, Rowing, and Dipping! And How to properly cook a marsh hen! It s marsh hen hunting season. I can t say at the moment what the rules and regulations are in regards to this day and time. However, what I can tell you is a little about how my father and I used to hunt marsh hens. My father was a very avid bird hunter. In the case of the marsh hen, he always wanted to make the bird fly before taking a shot! According to him there is no sport shooting at a sitting bird. So therefore during my childhood time scaring the heck out of sitting birds was my job! Since I talked a lot anyway this was right up my alley! Normally when daddy and I hunted QUITE was the rule! The best time is normally during the morning hours. Now to get your best shot you need to have lots of water covering the marsh grass. So therefore you need to have the highest tide possible staging in the morning hours. This limits your options right off the bat in regards to being able to go successful marsh hen hunting. As time passed my job changed quite a bite in regards to the marsh hen hunting affair. As I said earlier, it was my job to scare the heck out of them which I was very good at! My father would shoot the marsh hen, the bird would fall, and I then became the watcher! As I watched I also rowed! Once we arrived to the location of the bird in question my next job was to dip the bird up with the dip net. After this occurrence my job process started all over again! The short version: Scare the heck out of the bird, which in turn made them take flight. Watch and row to the site of the fallen bird. Dip the bird up and repeat! As I write this I now know why I was so tired when dear old dad took me marsh hen hunting! The bottom line to this story is a simple one: Treat every hunt with your father like it s your last one!
How to properly cook a Marsh Hen! The first thing you have to do when you get back from marsh hen hunting is you have to clean them! I guess I had better say, Skin them! I would always try to help daddy. He had this bird cleaning thing all figured out! All he did was to make a couple of small cuts on the bird, which would enable him to pull the skin right off. And of course this procedure almost always made me sick! Why, because between the skin and meat there was this slimy like stuff! Ok, now I am nauseated. For those Chef hunters that would like to give this recipe a try. Please read the entire recipe and then start your cooking affair. And of course, since I have had this meal dozens of times I can guarantee that if you follow you will enjoy! Ingredients: Found this picture on web site. Yep, we used the key! One large cast iron seasoned skillet Six cleaned marsh hens 1 large brown paper bag (kept from grocery shopping) 2 small brown bags (kept from going to the candy store) 2 cups of flour (I don t know if it was self rising or not, you decide) Seasoning (salt, pepper, season salt, garlic, and anything else you care to add) 3 to 4 large scoops of Crisco lard (can be regular liquid oil) 1 large onion diced (1 cigar, optional) Bottle of 8 ounce ketchup (which we brought by the cases at the wholesale house I think it was call Alexander s) Loaf of real white bread (can substitute) 2 cups well water (optional, you can substitute with regular tap or bottled water)
After the cleaning, cutting them up, and washing daddy would let the birds parts drain. While they were drying a bit daddy dumped two cups of flour and seasoning in a doubled paper bag. I got out the big cast iron season skillet and daddy put it on the stove. Daddy would then dip up 3 or 4 big scoops of lard, which he put in the semi-hot pan. I got to watch the white stuff that looked like ice cream melt into liquid oil. While this was taking place he dropped about 6 pieces of marsh hen in the bag and started shaking it. I meant to tell you after daddy cleaned the marsh hens he would cut the bird in half making a section with legs only and a breast piece. When the oil started popping he dropped in the floured bird parts in and let them cook until they were golden brown. We normally cooked six birds meaning twelve parts. After reaching the browning point daddy would put the semi cooked pieces on a big paper bag. When all parts were browned he would pour all of the oil out of the pan leaving any left behind crusted pieces/parts as well as a bit of oil. At this time he would throw in some diced onions, which I always had tried to cut up. However, after the tears started daddy would take over. After all, if you smoke a cigar while cutting an onion you are tear free. Go on, heck, you won t know unless you try it! He would let the onion cook until it was soft and a little brown. Then he would take a small hand full of the flour out of the bag and throw it in the pan. He let the flour, onions, and crusted pieces brown and bit so as to marry up. The he poured in a glass of water and stirred it a lot. Believe me it was starting to look like some fine looking gravy. After a few minutes of stirring, maybe adding some more water, he would pour a bottle of ketchup in the gravy and let that simmer for a bit. Once it got to my father s desired consistency, he then would slowly put in every piece of fried marsh hen into the gravy. Once all birds were laid in the gravy it took about one hour or about 3 of Daddy s big liquor drinks before it would be ready to eat. You do not cover the pan! When the meat was done it would mostly fall off the bird s bones. We would put two pieces of real white bread on a plate and pour on the gravy. And then the meat! Now for those that can t eat real white bread, you can always substitute, but it won t be the same! Bon Appétit Thanks for reading! Captain Judy