State record amberjack caught

This guy caught a 100lb, 8oz jack, must have fought like a pit bull! Great catch!


August 14, 2008
Catch lands angler new state record for amberjack
The marine game fish record for an amberjack was recently dismantled by a veteran South Carolina angler.

Lee Frederick, of Murrell's Inlet, caught a 100-pound 8-ounce amberjack on Saturday, Aug. 9 off the South Carolina coast to claim the new state record by a mere 13 ounces.

Frederick, 37, ventured out from Murrells Inlet with captain Troy Strickland and friend James Moore for an overnight fishing frenzy. Aboard the 34-foot-Crusader, "Killin' Time," the crew headed just northwest of the Georgetown Hole and anchored up in 160 feet of water. Frederick was fishing a Heavy Ugly Stick 6-foot rod with a "Red Face" Penn reel, using a cigar minnow for bait and rigged with a bottom weight on a C-hook when he landed the 66.3-inch (total length) record amberjack catch.

The monster fish was reeled to the boat in about 15 minutes. Frederick's catch tops the previous marine game fish state record holder for an amberjack by 13 ounces, which was set by Shane Kelley in 1998. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist Kris Reynolds certified the new state record fish weight at Captain ****'s Marina in Murrell's Inlet, and verified the record fish report to the Marine Resources Division in Charleston.

For a current listing of South Carolina’s State Record Marine Game fish, contact Amy Dukes with the Office of Fisheries Management, DukesA@dnr.sc.gov, or call (843) 953-9365.