Can anyone give me advice here or PM me on what I need to do to catch Sheepshead? I have tried so many times to catch them and haven’t got em. Any help would be much appreciated!
I mostly suck at catching the sheeps too, so you can take this for what it’s worth…
Try trying your sinker to the bottom of the line. Use 2-3 hooks above the sinker. Figure you are going to lose more fiddlers and the more you have on the line, you increase your odds. Drop your line to the bottom and just keep in light touch with the bottom with your sinker.
Don’t use a hook that’s too large. You won’t feel the bite, so watch the line…if the line starts moving away or cross current, someone is swimming away with your line…that’s a sheephead - set the hook.
Good luck.
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Guy at work says he does it this way too…laughs at the one hook with a split shot fisherman…says he uses a bottom sinker then ties a few piece of flouro in different lengths and distances above it…says the more the merrier and it looks like a fiddla buffet to the greedy sheeps. Also said it took him a few times to get use to the bite this way…but that it not ly is easier to keep it down but that if onesi stolen he still has three more hanging there… I’ve never tried it but might have to give it a try. Only thing that scares me I’d the pic in my mind of me holding a sheep with three other hooks stuck in my hand and arm :).
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I used to go to the rocks on Sullivan’s Island near Ft Moultrie all of the time. Hooks in one pocket, split shot in the other pocket and bucket of fiddlers around my neck. You tend to get wet but I used to catch quite a few. I’m not sure if the rocks have been covered with sand since then. If you decide to go that route, go sober and be very careful not to slip and bust your butt.
If you are on a boat, find some pilings, and bust the oysters up with a paddle. Drop your line to the bottom and bring it up a few feet. I always like to have tension on the line regardless of water depth.
As they say on these forums, if you feel the strike, you are .0001 seconds too late.
Avoid busting the oysters up if DNR is around.
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@mikey, I head busting oysters is fine, I have you heard different ??
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I thought busting them into the water was fine but, you had to be careful grabbing any to use for bait as that was considered harvesting.
With some good information already been given. Let me interject another question. When fishing the near shore wrecks for sheeps, do you use the same hook set up with more weight or is it a different rig?
Hurricane701- depends on the DNR officer. Better safe than sorry.
Fiddler crabs on structure (with barnacles attached), small hook, small weight, braided line and the most important thing:
Set the hook BEFORE they bite.
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Cool. Thanks y’all. But I’ll be in school until spring break so will it be good fishing in the summer? Thanks for the help everyone! oh…and what size hook?