![]() ![]() Small pieces of shrimp, fiddler crabs and oysters will all get the bite. Look for them around any structure such as bridge pilings, docks, rock piles and the artificial reefs. The Arrowhead area inside Bunces Pass is producing a good speckled trout bite, reports Larry Mastry at Mastry’s Tackle (72).ĥ: Around the Sunshine Skyway and lower Tampa Bay, sheepshead action is heating up all over lower Tampa Bay. Claude Hinson at Tierra Verde Bait and Tackle (72). Bunces Pass is producing lots of whiting, jacks and some pompano, reports Capt. The piers are good for pompano, sheepshead and whiting. The trout bite is picking up on the flats around the park. Good numbers of redfish and some snook are also on the flats around Tarpon and Jackass Key. Schools of sheepshead are roaming the flats and big sheepshead have been caught in the Soldier’s Hole, along with redfish and snook. The sea bass are taking white color Gulp plastics on a pink jig head. When the water is clear, pompano are also biting shrimp and Doc’s Jigs, reports HubbardĤ: At Fort De Soto Park, there’s plenty of sheepshead along with some black sea bass around the marina area and the seawall. Whiting and silver trout are biting from the jetty. There’s a good redfish bite on live shrimp around the docks and a few snook are still around. Strike Zone, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Elsewhereģ: At John's Pass, sheepshead are plentiful in the pass, around structure and the bridge. Sheepshead: The seasonal, winter time sheepshead bite is in full swing right now for Tampa Bay area anglers and other spots elsewhere. For pelagic anglers, there’s plenty of blackfin tuna, a few kingfish and the occasional wahoo, reports Capt. Further offshore, there’s scamp grouper, big mangrove snapper and vermilions. Deeper water, around 70 feet deep, is where the red grouper bite picks up. There’s also plenty of grunts and porgies. Lane snapper start chewing good around the 60-foot mark. When you find sheepshead, you can fill up a large cooler or stringer fairly quick, but the bit doesn't last long.so quickly switching out hooks is often critical.1: At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, the cold front has slowed the fishing, but sheepshead, whiting, silver trout and croakers have been caught this week, reports Big Pier 60 Bait & Tackle (72).Ģ: At Madeira Beach, the hogfish bite is still very good in nearshore waters 30 to 70 feet deep. For me, the shrimp ball method yield near 100% hook-up.just have to let them take the bait for a few seconds, feel the line for tension, then set the hook. Cast away from rocks, open bail and let the cork float in to avoid hangups. I also choose days where the wind / tide will allow the cork to float towards the rocks. It may take a while to find them, so I'm patient while working up and down the rock formations. Yaklash is correct, you'll go through a bunch of hooks catching sheepshead, so I also take along plenty of spare hooks.įor me, the best sheepshead fishing is along jetties. make a "shrimp ball), then rig up about 30- extra leaders with clip swivels attached on the other end. I will usually go buy shrimp early in the morning, evaluate their size, use the smallest treble hook that allows me to run all 3- barbs into shrimp (i.e. ![]() Note: at least for me, treble hook size is determined by the size of the shrimp. Sorry, I don't fish for sheepshead in the winter.never seems to be as good. Live shrimp, small(ish) treble hook, short leader, split shot sinker weights attached to leader close to hook, all under an obnoxious popping cork in the summer. Those of you who target these fish, what's your setup? ![]()
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