Captain Judy Helmey

Kicking Fish Tail Since 1956!

124 Palmetto Drive

Savannah, Georgia 31410

www.missjudycharters.com

912 897 4921or 912 897 2478

912 897 3460 fax

Fishjudy2@aol.com

May 26 2021 Captain Judy inshore fishing report and Argentina snakes on ship story!

Welcome to big darn spotted sea “trout-ville!” While inshore fishing with Captain

Justin Rahn of Miss Judy Charters Robert Penniman and son George (Savannah,

Georgia) caught some really nice trout. As you can see from the picture above

there is no fish tails being told here! Yep, these are some very nice trout!

Congratulations to the father son catchers!

While inshore fishing with Captain Matt Williams of Miss Judy Charters Adam

and Danielle Quentin Green Bay Wisconsin has a grand fish catching time! What

did they catch? Red fish, spotted sea trout, flounder, sheepshead, and bonnet head

sharks! What is on the fish cleaning table? Dinner aka spotted sea trout! This is

what they kept and they released the rest!

It was a family Fishing Affair! Who showed them the catching way!

Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters! They all done good,

Captain Garrett done good, and so did Grandpa Harold Markward!

Grandpa Harold is celebrating a little early for his 90th

birthday, which is

next month!

Nick Johnson. (Grandson) Cleveland, OH, David Palmer (grandson)

Pueblo, CO, Harold Markward (grandpa, celebrating his 90th birthday

next month)

Jim Markward (son) Savannah Garrett

While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Nick

Johnson. (Grandson) Cleveland, OH David Palmer (grandson) Pueblo, CO Harold

Markward (grandpa, celebrating his 90 Th birthdays next month) Jim Markward

(son) Savannah had fun catching spending time together blast! Family lives

matters!

While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Emma

Gracen and her mother Faith Tuttle (Effingham) had a serious catching blast.

What’s on the dinner menu? Fried spotted sea trout with dill tartar sauce and a 4

nice crispy scored flounder with a side order of papaya chutney!

While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Emma

Gracen Savannah Georgia caught this beautiful flounder!

Captain Garrett reports that, “Emma says she wants to be a professional

fisherwoman when she grows up, and she listened to everything I had to say on our

trip. She cast, hooked and landed some awesome flounder and trout better than

most of the adult men I take fishing. She’s got the passion and skills to not only be

a professional fisherwoman, but one of the best fishermen of any gender. This girl

was polite, kind, and just an absolute pleasure to take out. Her mom faith was just

as cool too. A great trip for great ladies!” Now you know the rest of the story!

Captain Judy says, “I hope to hear from her in the not so distance future! Who

knows she might just want to be a charter boat captain!”

Photo by Captain Matt Williams

Numbers to call if you want to purchase your live bait!

Local Bait Houses

Bandy’s 912 354 6444, Thunderbolt 912 667 1703, Coffee Bluff Marina 912 231

3628

Bull River 912 897 7300, Joey’s Bait House at Hogan’s Marina 912 897 3474

Suggestions offered to those that want to catch their own!

Small shrimp are being caught while shallow water casting! What the heck is

shallow water casting? The best scenario that I can off would be throwing a cast

net in 1 to 2 feet of water at a low tide stage, which is by marsh areas. During the

falling tide shrimp refugee out of the grass with the water as it fall flows out of the

marsh. After the shrimp comes out of the grass the bulk of them hover right on

the bottom in about 1 to 2 foot of water. A fisherman that is skilled in regards to

throwing a cast net should be able to catch quite a few great size bait shrimp during

this time. It is a mixed bag catching affair at this time. We are catching a mixture

of assorted sizes of white and brown shrimp while casting in about one to two feet

of water.

It is a great time of the year to purchase and catch your own live shrimp!

While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters

Emma Gracen Effingham had a catching ball. And she listened and did

everything right! Emma is holding a nice spotted sea trout!

Flounder Flat Fish Power!

While inshore fishing with Captain Jim Price of Miss Judy Charters AJ Taylor

Richmond Hill (red) Todd Calloway Hiram (green) Ray Fletcher Hiram, Georgia

(Pink) had a catching blast! They caught flounder, flounder, flounder, flounder,

flounder, flounder, spotted sea trout, and red fish! This is what they kept and they

released the rest!

While inshore fishing with Captain Justin Rahn of Miss Judy Charters Lumpy and

Allison Dodson Bremen Georgia had a catching blast! As you can see they caught

some very nice spotted sea trout and one soon to be crispy scored flounder to be!

While inshore fishing with Captain Jake Ross of Miss Judy Charters

Neil Crumb and Tracy Mathews (Athens, Georgia) had a catching blast!

What’s the bottom line to going fishing at this time of the year? There

could be more catching involved than just fishing!

While inshore fishing with Captain Justin Rahn of Miss Judy

Charters Leo Boyer, Brittney Shawver, Robby Shawver, and

Dan Flinn (Savannah, Georgia) caught some very nice stopped

sea trout! The group was celebrating Leo’s birthday! And I

almost forget to say, “Leo caught the biggest and most trout!”

And a big congratulations and a Happy Birthday goes out to

Leo!

While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy

Charters Faith Tuttle Effingham is holding up a beautiful

flounder, which hit a live shrimp under a popping cork!

While inshore fishing with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters Emma

Gracen Savannah Georgia caught two beautiful flounder sometimes referred to as

doormats!

Freshies Report!

It is time to get your stripes ON!

Cuz Captain Mickey reports that the lake is truly starting to be productive and is

making things quite nice to produce some nice memories. We are catching fish on

free lines and the top water artificial bite is almost ready and I’m so excited!

Captain Judy says, “What does all of this boil down too?” It is time to go, because

now you know! Give Captain Mickey a call today! (470 262 6035) Just do it!

Freshies Report by Captain Mickey Holbrook Miss Judy Charter’s freshwater

connection!

My Cuz Captain Mickey Holbrook owner and operator of MAD GILLZ Fishing

Guide Service! Captain Cuz is a member in very good standing with the gangster

side of our family! And that is all I am going to say about that! And the best news

is none of us have done any sort of prison time! Captain Mickey is also old time

fishing friends with Captain Garrett Ross of Miss Judy Charters

So therefore any of you want to do a little fresh water fishing I highly suggest

giving Captain 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 Lake Lanier fresh water connection is Cuz Captain Mickey

Holbrook! And I approved this message times two!

Little Miss Judy’s Believe It Or Not!

Check out this old style ship, which was approaching the Savannah River way

back when! I think that this picture was taken in the early seventies while the

photographer was in my wooden boat Miss Judy. As a small child when a ship

would pass us looking very similar to this one, my father would say that it was

loaded with long horn cattle. According to my father the rigging was there to

remove the cows one at a time. Every time my father would say this my

imagination went complete wildly. I was very familiar with the phase the cow

jumped over the moon! As a child in the fifties who had not?

Argentina snakes on a ship!

I have to share this wild story with you! Many Many years ago a

representative, I think, from Georgia Pacific went on my boat to do a

little fishing. His main goal was to treat a few of his clients to a fishing

trip. All that boarded was very nice! We had a wonderful time talking

and catching fish!

As usual conversation ranged from fishing to work and back! And then

we all could see a ship in the distance and this is where this conversation

went from that point. According to one of the guest on board when

shipments arrived for their business from argentine lots of plans had to

be made. So of course, I had to ask what they meant by this! And here’s

how the story went....

Ships along with their crews on board hauling stumps from Argentina

once arriving to Savannah’s port would have to jump through many

hoops of regulations. Once the ship arrived to the port, the crew had to

be quarantined and the ship had to be exterminated. I wasn’t too

shocked about the quarantine of the crew. I was more shocked about

the extermination of the ship and why? And this is where the story gets

real interesting. The stumps shipped in from Argentina normally had

lots of snake inhabitants. According to the story told most of the snakes

were on the poisonous side!

While this story was being told my mind was racing with its own

processing of this story! Already the vision of snakes crawling out and

about was on my mind. However, according to those telling this story

the ship’s hole was sealed until it arrived to its destination! Once again

my mind was in overdrive with this ideal of snakes in stumps.

After the ship was docked, the crew was removed, and a serious

extermination process began. Once the ship was cleared proper

equipment arrived to start the stump removal process. Quite often as the

stumps were being removed snakes of various sizes basically hung out in

a very limb state. Some of the snakes were barely moving while others

were just swinging in the wind. My imagination was on wide open

mode!

As I listened I had a few questions, which I most likely already really

knew the answers. So to start with I asked, “Have they ever found any

snakes out of the containment hole?” The reply was simple, “Yes for

sure!” So I had to say, “Well, we got snakes on a plane, we got snakes

on a train and now we got snakes on the ship!” And just when I

thought it was safe on the ocean from snakes, now I got to worry about

this! Holy Mackerel!

Thanks for reading! Captain Judy