11-10-13 Sheeps, Trout and Flounder!

Headed out around 7am sunday morning with my neighbor to try for a few sheepshead. This wasn’t his first trip with me but it was the first time he managed to catch one. Not only did he catch one he caught quite a few and so did I. As soon as the bait hit the water they were biting we must have caught 30 fish between the two of us and lost just as many. I never anticipated that we would catch that many so of course the bait ran low real quick. I decided to go tie the boat up and catch some mud crabs so we could keep fishing. We managed to catch a couple dozen pretty quick and back to fishing. Well needless to say those crabs didn’t last long the bite was still on. We probably caught another dozen before we ran out of bait again.

Now that we were out of crabs we decided to go for a few trout. We hit a couple creeks and found a few fish but

Man as a quote for one of the fellow fishermen; Your killing me with those FLATTIES. Two of the things you do I’m willing to try and that’s Gigging and sheephead fishing. Ten yrs ago when I purchased my SeaFox I tried the jetties and luckily caught two of the largest sheeps I ever seen and haven’t seen one in my boat since.

“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education”

18’ CC SeaFox

Killing YOU with the flatties!!! Your the one with all the posts that made me get my butt off the couch and get out there KOBP.

quote:
Originally posted by fatrat357

Man as a quote for one of the fellow fishermen; Your killing me with those FLATTIES. Two of the things you do I’m willing to try and that’s Gigging and sheephead fishing. Ten yrs ago when I purchased my SeaFox I tried the jetties and luckily caught two of the largest sheeps I ever seen and haven’t seen one in my boat since.

“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education”

18’ CC SeaFox


“Work is for people who don’t know how to fish”


2005 180 Flats Fox w/115 Yamaha 4 stroke
1996 1436 War Eagle w/25 Evinrude 2 stroke

Nice job on the flounder man, I love catching some sheeps also. I haven’t been to that spot for them in a while.

Zoinks! :0


2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.ralphphillipsinshore.com | www.summervillesaltwateranglers.com
Personal Trout Slot Limit: 16"-20" Creel: 2

Holy shnikes! Those are huge flounder. Nice job!!!

NICE! Looks like another great day!

j

Well done!!

Thanks guys,
That’s the same thing I thought when I saw them laying there.

quote:
Originally posted by OccamsRaiser

Holy shnikes! Those are huge flounder. Nice job!!!


“Work is for people who don’t know how to fish”


2005 180 Flats Fox w/115 Yamaha 4 stroke
1996 1436 War Eagle w/25 Evinrude 2 stroke