Hook Size for Sheepshead?

[t65k3]

Here on the Choctawhatchee the Highway 331 Bay Bridge around the Pileins can be real good.
JSC

Is it near Santa Rosa Beach?

[JSC]

Yep ... Go east on 98 from SRB and turn Left .. North .. on 331 and there you are...
If you are bank fishing try the little bridge .. from a boat work all the pilings on both bridges ... Danny at Copelands Gun Shop (North above bridge about 2 miles on Left) can fix you up with bait and tackle. Try using a 3/4 oz ready rig with a #2 EC 84 or 85 hook and baited with a small piece of shrimp.

Good Luck

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[t65k3]

Yep ... Go east on 98 from SRB and turn Left .. North .. on 331 and there you are...
If you are bank fishing try the little bridge .. from a boat work all the pilings on both bridges ... Danny at Copelands Gun Shop (North above bridge about 2 miles on Left) can fix you up with bait and tackle. Try using a 3/4 oz ready rig with a #2 EC 84 or 85 hook and baited with a small piece of shrimp.

Good Luck

JSC

Really appreciate all the info. Will let you know the result when I go there in a week or two...... Thanks~

[go dart]

man i love catching sheepsheads. i'll usually find em around docks and use a 1/8 oz jig head tipped with frozen shrimp. so simple a cave oh never mind.

[smoothlures]

I use Gamakatsu octopus hooks, #1/0 or #1. Best baits I've found are fiddlers, sand fleas, and shrimp when there's no baitstealers around. Heard of some people using 4x strong treble hooks when using clams for bait.

[t65k3]

man i love catching sheepsheads. i'll usually find em around docks and use a 1/8 oz jig head tipped with frozen shrimp. so simple a cave oh never mind.

I went...... I might a cave xxx after all, haha. I tried the jig method first. Some people call it "shrimp appetizer". But the shrimp kept sliding down to the turn of the hook. It doesn't stay in place when I thought the barb on the jig head could hold it.

Then I bought some fiddlers...... there were two kids pulling one after one out of water while the rest of the adults on the pier, ~20, didn't catch any. I didn't catch any this time, but I definitely enjoyed the challenge and will be back some time soon. What's the latest time of the year that we could catch Sheepsheads?

thanks for all the inputs on this thread...........

[kymdfisher]

scrape the barncles off the piling, to chum them in, and try and get a muscle or barnacle or shrimp for bait.. I catch them on shrimp and jig when we shoot docks for reds.