07/18/2025
Captain Judy Helmey
124 Palmetto Drive
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31410
912 897 4921 912 897 3460 FAX
www.missjudycharters.com
Captain Judy’s email judy@missjudycharters
Inshore Baiting Up Tips!
July 18, 2025
Hello All Fishers,
Since it’s Friday and you might be planning to go Inshore fishing tomorrow, here’s an inshore baiting up tip you can use! This information was given to me by Captain Justin Rahn Inshore specialist Miss Judy Charters
Captain Justin suggests with our outgoing tide starting early in the am you will have time to catch your own live bait. Here is your tip: Go to an area where you have caught or seen shrimp jumping before. If you are using a trolling motor the propeller blade will sometimes spook the shrimp causing them to jump. Or sometimes, just throwing the cast net, will make enough bottom stir to cause the shrimp to jump! The bottom line is where you see the shrimp jumping, well, throw your net.
While you are looking for shrimp, you should
also be looking for surface schools of finger mullet. If you see them, I suggest catching them. At this time of the year, finger mullet is the best bait to use. Why? Larger baits keep the fe**sh fish from attacking! Why? They cannot eat finger mullet! It is a moot point! What’s a fe**sh fish? It is a small fish that’s known for destroying a great bait shrimp one part at a time.
The best news is once you catch your bait and take a breather, it will be time to fish that incoming tide. See you at that special incoming drop!
Thanks for Reading! Captain Judy
PS: My newest book Hoochie Coochie Tuna Fire Tail! It is out and it is not about fishing!
What’s the book about?
First let’s talk about the name, Hoochie-Coochie Tuna Fire Tail! My father favorite lure for catching fish and attracting women! (according to him!) I can’t recall how many times I heard my father say, “Now that’s a fine Hoochie Coochie Tuna Fire Tail!” If we were on the boat, it was a bait, if it was while on land, well I think you get the just of it! He also called some particulars lures and ladies “Sapphires!” (Could be the title of my next book, which by the way I am already working on! Stay tuned!) Why? There is lots more interesting information to be written!
What is the book about? Well, for many years, I have been writing stories about my life with my father and his life with those that came before me! and here a short list of things: gangsters, hijackers, fishers, ex-wives, stepmothers, his colorful as well as colorful girlfriends, and there is much more!
