Sheepshead

[Shad30]

I've caught sheepshead around pylons every winter but was wondering if they're always around pylons? I've heard during the summer they move out to deeper water? I'm asking because i want to take a friend soon.

 

[shotgunhales]

They'll be around in the summer too. They're more likely to move to deep water in the winter time.

 

[Shad30]

Thanks. I may give it a try soon

 

[Seanote]

I have caught them many times in the summer. I usually fish under docks in the summer.

 

[Sunbury]

Has any one had luck catching Sheepshead using soft plastic crabs?

 

[gawildlife]

A friend of my granddad had a trick for sheepshead. He always kept a flat hoe scraper in the boat and would slide up to a few pilings and scrape barnacles off to chum the water then back off to cast small shrimp into the chummed areas.

 

[Shad30]

Thats what we do now. But we open some of the barnacles and fish with them. Always works out great

 

[kingfish]

Barnacles are a great bait and so are oysters. Fiddlers are the main stay, but back when I fished the east coast it was gloves, scrapers and nut crackers for the shells. Agree with raking the pilings, great way to start a chum slick. We caught them all summer long.

 

[Bmainor]

Got any recent pics of sheepshead catches?

 

[charlie81]

Anyone had luck with sheepshead at the Jekyll pier?

 

[GTMODawg]

scraping pilings works magic. Convict fish are fun to catch, usually easy to catch and delicious....hard combination to beat....