I am military and have lived here for a year and a half. Have 1 kid and another on the way so it’s hard to get out and am new to inshore fishing. I check this site daily to try and plan my fishing trips as best I can using posts others have posted. I have only had one successful day where I couldn’t stop catching em but sadly I have been back to that same spot a few more times with zero luck. If anyone can give me some advice I have 2 days this weekend I get to fish and really hope to make the most of it. If anyone can tell me a good sheepshead spot besides the jettis. I have a 17 ft bass boat and the conditions have to be perfect to make the trip. I have only done it twice. I have tried to find the sinken boat by ravenel but have an old outdated depth finder. I don’t get to go often enough and will be moving May 2020 so I won’t fish out any spots that anyone provides. Thanks in advance. I would like to just gain the experience and find my own spots or get a guide but 4 years here with 1 kid and another on the way doesn’t really allow all that. Sorry for being THAT guy. God bless.
2020 is plenty of time to clean out someone’s fishing spot. It doesn’t take much to ruin a spot. Some people fish and keep all they can every time. I’ve seen it first hand. If 1 guy keeps like 10 fish and fishes your spot like 10 times its pretty much ruined. You kind of contradict yourself with someone give me a spot and then saying you want to find your own spots. But here are the basics so you can help yourself.
1st structure
2nd depth at least 6 ft at low tide
3rd current, you want the structure you fish to have a lot of flow when the tides moving
4th bait and hooks, size 1 short shank j hook on a Carolina rig 6 to 12 inches
5th move if they are there they bite in the first 20 to 30 minutes most of the time in the first 5.
The most common structures fished are bridges and docks. I prefer cleaner water closer to big water or inlets but I’ve caught them way up the Ashley before. Nearly every bridge or concrete dock in Charleston holds sheeps and most wooden docks. If you can find any structure that has a creek that runs out by it that dock or rock pile will likely have good fishing. The mount pleasant pier has great sheep heading. Some days they are all small and some days you can’t landem becuase they are beast. Put in at Remlys point and cruise like 10ft over to the pilings and seawalls. Sounds like a joke but that is a great sheep head spot. There is way better fishing on the mt. P side like breach inlet bridge don Holt Ben Sawyer, the burned down bridge, coal tipple the port walls. I’m soon to go trophy hunting at some of those spots. My pb sheep is like 4lbs. My buddy caught a 14lber at 1 of the mentionex spots and lost a state record beater twice back to back. He said he froze when it the first big one surfaced and it broke him off the second 1 just bolted like usain after it surfaced and popped him of.
Thanks for the help. Good luck out there.