Post by Steve Sutton on May 9, 2010 12:32:56 GMT -5
On November 23, 1986
Anchored and bottom fishing at the artificial reef “KC,” which is located about 8 miles offshore of the Wassaw barrier island. For bait we were using stand always good “cut squid and cut fish.” On this particular day any small fish caught were cut up and used as bait. Mr. Price’s fish ate half of a pinfish, which I had cut and put on a standard one-hook bottom rig.
The Prices, from the Atlanta area, chartered my boat and had a very interesting day. The charter was a gift from each of them. They had a blast! Both were fishing steadily and once we got into the trophy red fish they each caught several. The exciting part was they both broke the current men and women’s Georgia State records for red drum (spot tail bass). This happened on the same day, same time, and most likely from the same school of red fish. Mrs. Price’s red drum was 39 inches long and weighted 38 pounds 13.5 ounces. Mr. Price’s red drum was 42 inches long and weighted 46 pounds 7 ounces. Both men and women Georgia state record fish were caught, fought, and landed on November of 1986. Please remember during this time it was legal to bring trophy red fish back to the dock. However, it’s is not now. You can’y keep any red fish no matter what if it is caught in federal waters. You can only keep them if they are caught in the creeks, rivers, and sounds. The slot limit for keeping red fish also known as spot tail bass, red drum, reds, channel bass, and stag bass is 14 TL to 23 TL. A relaxed bag limit of 5 per fishermen still prevails in the Georgia waters.
April 9, 2010
Cameron’s big fish!
So I guess I need to put all of this into prospective…Cameron’s red fish was a total of 48 inches long and it could not be properly weighted in. So therefore based on length and weight of the current men’s state red fish the fish weighted in at a little over 46 pounds. Now for the real deal comment... Cameron’s fish, which wasn’t weight in and measured around 48 inches, long…so therefore if the current state record red fish was 41 inches long and weight in at a little over 46 pounds what do you think that Cameron’s fish weighted while sporting a length of 48 inches. I don’t know Cameron’s fish exact weight and we may never know. However, here’s what we do know…if Cameron’s fish could have been weight in it seems most likely that his fish would have weighted over 50 pounds. So therefore as far as Miss Judy Charters is concerned Cameron Rudy visiting from Charlotte, NC now holds the unofficial men’s Georgia state red fish record. And a big congratulation goes out to Cameron for doing such a good job of landing this fish!
Anchored and bottom fishing at the artificial reef “KC,” which is located about 8 miles offshore of the Wassaw barrier island. For bait we were using stand always good “cut squid and cut fish.” On this particular day any small fish caught were cut up and used as bait. Mr. Price’s fish ate half of a pinfish, which I had cut and put on a standard one-hook bottom rig.
The Prices, from the Atlanta area, chartered my boat and had a very interesting day. The charter was a gift from each of them. They had a blast! Both were fishing steadily and once we got into the trophy red fish they each caught several. The exciting part was they both broke the current men and women’s Georgia State records for red drum (spot tail bass). This happened on the same day, same time, and most likely from the same school of red fish. Mrs. Price’s red drum was 39 inches long and weighted 38 pounds 13.5 ounces. Mr. Price’s red drum was 42 inches long and weighted 46 pounds 7 ounces. Both men and women Georgia state record fish were caught, fought, and landed on November of 1986. Please remember during this time it was legal to bring trophy red fish back to the dock. However, it’s is not now. You can’y keep any red fish no matter what if it is caught in federal waters. You can only keep them if they are caught in the creeks, rivers, and sounds. The slot limit for keeping red fish also known as spot tail bass, red drum, reds, channel bass, and stag bass is 14 TL to 23 TL. A relaxed bag limit of 5 per fishermen still prevails in the Georgia waters.
April 9, 2010
Cameron’s big fish!
So I guess I need to put all of this into prospective…Cameron’s red fish was a total of 48 inches long and it could not be properly weighted in. So therefore based on length and weight of the current men’s state red fish the fish weighted in at a little over 46 pounds. Now for the real deal comment... Cameron’s fish, which wasn’t weight in and measured around 48 inches, long…so therefore if the current state record red fish was 41 inches long and weight in at a little over 46 pounds what do you think that Cameron’s fish weighted while sporting a length of 48 inches. I don’t know Cameron’s fish exact weight and we may never know. However, here’s what we do know…if Cameron’s fish could have been weight in it seems most likely that his fish would have weighted over 50 pounds. So therefore as far as Miss Judy Charters is concerned Cameron Rudy visiting from Charlotte, NC now holds the unofficial men’s Georgia state red fish record. And a big congratulation goes out to Cameron for doing such a good job of landing this fish!
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