![]() ![]() You are still going to get your bait stolen a lot but you will get some for the dinner plate. You have to downsize your hooks to a 1/0 or smaller help minimize losing your baits without a hook up. This fish has a very small mouth which makes them notorious bait stealers. If the sheepshead are already there don't worry about it. Scrape some of the barnacles and oysters off of the pilings if you don't see any sheephead and they will come. They would catch 4 or 5 nice ones for dinner and leave within 15 or 20 minutes. Then the old timers would toss a small piece of shrimp with a 1/0 hook and a split shot to the fish that would be attracted. The fish would appear out of no where to the chum slick that was created. I remember when I was a kid watching the old timers, (Who were probably younger than I am now) taking square head shovels and scraping the barnacles, mussels and oysters off of the bridge pilings to attract the sheepshead. Their back molars are evolved to crush through the hard shells of barnacles and just about anything else. They have these protruding buck teeth that are perfectly evolved to clip barnacles off of underwater structures. If you can some kind of underwater structure with barnacles on it you can find sheepshead somewhere close by. How to catch a sheepshead-Bridge Pilingsīarnacles and sheepshead go together like peanut butter and jelly. Watch the video below and learn how to catch more sheepshead. In this article I will give you all of the simple tips and techniques that I know for for how to catch a sheepshead. My older brothers and I would catch a bunch of fiddler crabs and catch sheepshead all day with our cane poles. I am an INSHORE FISHING GUIDE on the Treasure Coast of Florida and have been catching sheepshead from the mangroves since I was about 5 years old. They are an excellent candidate to fillet and release into the grease. But it is worth the extra work because of their light and mild meat. ![]() They are very difficult to clean because they are extremely bony. Sheepshead are decent fighters and are very good to eat. You can catch them 30 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico when they are spawning. That is because they are just about everywhere. Sheepshead is one of those fish that seem like they are everywhere in Florida. You can catch them in the grass flats around mangroves around oyster bars and mangrove roots. The best way to catch sheepshead is to target them around any underwater structure that has barnacles on it with a #2 sized J hook and a small piece of shrimp and a light 8 to 10 pound fluorocarbon leader. How to Catch a Sheepshead Fishing Florida (The Complete Guide) ![]()
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