Has anyone tried this for sheephead. Have read alot about useing dropshot for sheeps head. Seems this would allow for a heave weight to use in stronger current.
i use it all the time.
green grass and high tides forever
jhp----- Murrells Inlet
Thanks Tideline two. Things I read or saw online tended to be vague about saltwater use.
Neighbor puts 2 or 3 slit shot on his line and adds as needed. He does pretty good. Just wish I had the feel for it. Guess I’ll just have to keep pluggin away at it. I can catch a few but don’t have the feel for the line holding with the finger. Do better by watchin line or rod tip.
i make a “drop shot” rig and use splitshots crimped on below the hook. if they get hung up on something just pull and they slide off the line, put on 2 more splitshots and your back in business
green grass and high tides forever
jhp----- Murrells Inlet
Thanks guys useful info. Not that good at caputering them ether. Just geting started have caught a few. Cold weather has really put on brakes. I am on foot so place to go are limited. Have been fishing Mt. Pleasent pier.
Tideline I have had different people tell me to use different weights of line and different rods. What is your opinion on this. One guy uses 40 pound line with a short heavy action rod and just horses them out. Neighbor likes 25 to 30 pound but uses an 8ft medium action rod.
your neighbor use 20-40 braid, and a 6’6"-7’ medium action rod 
Howdy doo neighbor.
it ain’t the rigs so much as it is finding a pack of hungry sheeps…when you’re on em you know it.
Dropshot rigs work…I just prefer split shot rigs. Not really any good reason behind the preference other than I’m productive with it.
good luck
xHCFCx
Fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
Jerry, I’ve always used just enough split shot to keep detectable bottom contact, but a drop-shot rig is a good solution for heavy current where you can’t keep bottom contact with two or three large split-shot. However, I usually manage to find an eddy or a pocket where I can fish with my split shot, even in pretty heavy current, and I think the fish may be partial to those eddies and pockets, too. Against some larger structures, there’s also sometimes a washback area (not sure if that’s the right term for it) on the upcurrent side that is split-shottable and holds fish. It’s where the current bounces back and kind of voids itself, like an eddie, but a vertical eddie, rather than horizontal.
Aside from current, a drop-shot rig might help someone who gets cleaned a lot without ever feeling the bite (or who generally has a hard time feeling the bite with other rigs), as would the right graphite, baitcaster rod. The reason I’ve always used split shot over, say, eggweights, etc., is because there is less linkage from hook to hand with them than with other weights, thus maximizing sensitivity. There would be even less linkage and more sensitivity with a drop-shot rig and, thus, more sensitivity, while the weight would not interfere as much or absorb as much of the motion and feel when a fish touches your bait or slightly moves it. A split shot has served me well, though, so that’s my go-to.
Carolinacoot (and other interested parties), I encourage everyone who really likes sheepshead fishing to try it with a baitcaster with a graphite rod and a fast tip. The sensitivity and control are unsurpassed, and I believe it makes a difference. If you ever fish with a friend who has some baitcasters, try it out, and I think you’ll like it. Keep in mind that there’s really no learning curve for this application because you are not casting for sheepshead (well, most people aren’t, anyway). For inshore, I personally like a 6.5’ rod with either 17# mono or 30# braid with a reasonably thin, clear leader of sufficien
Lee, my daughter used to just turn the rod over and reel backwards. I have an old ugly stick with an old abugarcia reel with 15# mono that has worked ok for me. I’ve got about 1/2 ounce weight tied to end of line and the hook connected directly to the line. The weight lets me feel the bottom without too much tension on the rod. While trying to get the feel through line/finger contact I keep an eye on the rod tip and the line.
John, yes Mr. Pinckney uses 30# braid with a medium action 7’ rod. It’s funny when he fights one and I turn around and boat one just as big with my rig. He keeps telling me I’m just lucky. No argument here, it is all beginners luck but man is it ever fun.
Hi guys been away a few day. Had not thought to use Baitcaster. Will try. I have been useing ulta lite spinning with 8# test stren,hate that stuff, going back to spider wire brad. Tried to go on the cheap.
Have been fishing all over the place. Have found some eddies and have tried fishing that pressure wave in front of large pielings. But with fishing beening so slow hard to say what is working. Like all the info will help make me a fish catcher instead of just a fisherman.
Hang on: March is near–a great month for catching fatties inshore.
Gotcha Covered,
Lee Strickland
Strickland Marine Insurance, Inc.
843-795-1000 / 800-446-1862
Lee, I hear they are already out there at the reefs, because it got so cold so early, Tally Ho!
NaClH20
And, about eddy-fishing, spot on, man. Get in the big eddies behind bridge pylons. There’s this pocket of almost still water, 2 split shots will hold there and the fat boys are there, too…besides me.
Fished Mt.Pleasant pier sunday caught no fish. He who is on foot must accept foot sores. Sorry for whinning starting to tkink I have lost my mojo.