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OSOFARAWAY · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:42 am Post subject: Sheephead Question

I've been coming down and fishing PA North Jetty for sheephead in March-April for many years but it seems the last 5 or so the keeper fish are far and few between.
Am I coming to late now?
Any suggestions?

Thanks, David
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Mike_D · Finger Mullet Joined: 30 May 2017 Posts: 36

I do not target sheepshead generally, but can say that the last few times I have been on the rocks in January and February that is a given limit for me after casting for trout and reds.

Jason Slocum · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 328

BayFly · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:31 pm Post subject:

I've never fished for Sheepshead at the jetties, but have sat at a drain on the shrimpboat channel several times with shrimp on a Texas rig and caught all of the sheepshead we wanted.

OSOFARAWAY · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 2:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the help everyone!
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bd0202 · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:03 pm Post subject:

You can catch them year round. My dad knew a guy that used to walk the t-heads with a tool similar to (or modified out of) a sharpshooter shovel on a long pole...he would scrape the pilings then cast a single drop leader with fresh dead shrimp on it; haul in his daily limit of sheeps and feed his family that way. But I'm sure some times of year are hotter than others.

That being said, I'm really surprised you don't see more people scraping pilings and things on piers, etc. Pretty sure it would work scraping the rocks on the jetties, too. Unless there's something illegal about this practice now, but I don't personally know of anything. They LOVE barnacles!
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