![]() It gives me an advantage because it is still just as exciting for me to get on a good bite with big fish as it is for the people. I am here basically 10 days a month, and my clients are mostly local. “Catching big fish for people is what I enjoy doing. ![]() He currently works on the inland waterways throughout the U.S. David Barron was born and raised on the Choctawhatchee Bay and started charter fishing in 1990. It does not matter if it is incoming, or outgoing, it just has to be moving.Ĭapt. When you get them fired up under your boat, you can load a cooler to the brim in about 2 hours on an average Sheepshead rally. Sheepshead are good to eat, and fight like a giant bream. Set the hook.ĭon’t get discouraged, as good anglers catch about one out of every five that bite. It feels like a butterfly landed on the tip of your rod. I tell people to prop the rod against the side of the boat and watch the rod tip. lead, rest your lead on the bottom, and hold your breath. Last, but not least, shuck one, hang it on your small hook, above your 1/2 oz. Throw the shell, and meat overboard pulverized. The best method I have found for devestating the sheephead (8 fish+ per hour) is to get a bag of oysters, bring a hammer, bring a brick and smash each oyster to smitherienes. The sheepshead should be showing up in droves from now until mid-March. I was able to get on a decent sheepshead bite using oysters for bait at the Hwy 79 bridge in Panama City. Photo courtesy David Barron Inshore fishing with Dave If you have a fishing report of for charter information, please contact us at: Gulf Coast Guide Service, phone: 23, Website: or email: a safe week and good fishin’.Īs a native of Pine Island, Bill Russell has spent his entire life fishing and learning the waters surrounding Pine Island and as a professional fishing guide for the past 18 years.Sheepshead are biting. Most are early in their pre-spawn cycle, so I expect a month or so of good action with some big fish. We been waiting for the cooler temperature to spark the sheepshead and that happened. A few keeper size red grouper were found in depths from 60-90 feet. While making the offshore run, observant eyes located a few good tripletails hanging under buoys where a DOA crab properly presented resulted in hook-ups.Ī mix of bottom fish including grunts, porgy’s, lane and mangrove snapper, plus sheepshead, were found over hard bottom in depths from 40-65 feet. Fog was dense on many mornings but generally lifted by mid-morning. Sandwiched between cold fronts there were a couple good days with light winds for the offshore boats. Best baits included live shrimp, DOA and GULP shrimp under popping corks, and a gold spoon with a slow retrieve. Fish to 19 inches were caught in 4 to 6-foot sand holes near Pineland, west of Galt Island, and near Buck Key. Choice of Snow Crab Legs (2 clusters) or Snow Crab Leg (1 cluster) plus 1 Lobster Tail and then pick 2 of the following: 1 lb Clams, 1 lb Shrimp, 1 lb New Zealand Mussels, 1 lb Black Mussels, or 1 lb Crawfish. Trout fishing was a little better this week as they have adjusted to the change in water temperature. ![]() Sheepshead, small snook and snapper were also caught from these areas. Average size was about 15 inches with an occasional larger fish. Good numbers of redfish, most in a smaller size, were caught around creeks and oyster bars in south Matlacha Pass and “Ding” Darling Wildlife Refuge. A few black and red drums were also hooked mixed with the sheepshead under the piers. A few hard-core anglers also had success with larger fish while using mud crabs or oysters for bait. Shrimp was the bait of choice rigged in various ways, including knocker rigs, split-shot and hook and shrimp/ jig head combination.
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