im well aware that fiddlers are great bait for sheephead, but dont have the chance to go after them too often. anybody ever try freezing fiddlers with any luck?
Not to say they don’t work, but nothing beats the fresh stuff.
Have heard of people saving their leftovers in the freezer.
Not sure if they just throw them in a paper bag or if they freeze them in water.
If your on base, send me a PM. I know a few places.
Shallow sheeps can easily be caught with a cast net, scrape some oysters off a piling into a 6gal bucket. smash them up with a hammer, into small pieces . Place them near an area that sheeps frequent where you can safely throw a net. take a 4’ section of 2" pvc and hold it in the water near the smashed oysters and put your ear to the end. When you hear the crunching sounds , throw the net. I’ve caught 10 at a time. They don’t tear your net up. They lay real still in the net.
“SC gamefish (cobia, red drum, spotted seatrout, tarpon, and striped bass) may not be taken by nets.”
I would have thought that sheepshead would be included in this list as to not be kept if you caught in a net…I was wrong; I couldn’t find anything in SCDNR regulations that prevents you from catching and keeping legal sheepshead this way.
And frozen fiddlers are far from ideal. If you have to go frozen, try clams or oysters or mussels.
