Post up all your convict pics. I don’t care if you’ve posted them in the past. I want them all right here so I can get my fix.
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Yeah I don't get you all with your sheepshead success. I have been working on sight casting sheepies on flats with little tiny soft plastic crabs and getting absolutely no where. Like one hit in three years no where. Is anyone on here successfully targeting sheepshead on conventional artificials? I don't want your secrets, I just want to know it's possible.
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Try a clear plastic bubble with no hook. Seriously, I came very close to landing a large goat while use a clear casting bubble targeting black drum with dead shrimp. That thing attacked it...very early days of the sight casting trip I’m on, but I’ve had more success with a clear bubble then any other non-fly artificial. Even if it was only once.
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Just sayin'
And how many more opportunities/presentations have been made to sheepshead than permit.
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I don't doubt it. I've had a couple Keys guides say sheepies are more difficult than permit and one guy has guided a couple winners of the Del Brown Permit tournament.
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Tiny torpedo painted black is the lure I had luck with until a hog crushed the plastic body. I had great luck poling up on them in grass beds n throwing very small live crab on tiny hook on surface.
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Surprisingly enough ive had pretty good luck with sheepshead on fly. Usually winter is when we do good on them in the north key largo areas and everglades. I have found that a really "trippy" fly gets their attention. I will take some pics of the flies i use when i get back from work but its basically just a small black tarantula brush with fl orange silly legs. Trick i found is to apply loon uv to the brush to make the body hard. I was having problems with the sheeps eating the fly and spitting them out. after making the body a hard shell like consistency they tend to eat and chew on it now, giving you time to strip set. I myself have caught over a dozen on fly not including friends and clients. I have also caught permit on fly and guided quite a few people to permit. But i will say permit fishing and sheedshead fishing are somewhat similar. Either they want the fly or they dont.
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Sheepies are the new permit!
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My wife has a staredown with that big bastard every time we're there. It's about all I can do to keep her from smuggling in a handline and some live fiddlers in her purse.
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Your wife sounds better than mine. First time I served up some broiled sheep she hit me with the "This is good, why don't you catch more of these?". It's a good thing I didn't have the phone number to a divorce attorney handy.
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haha, she's ok I guess. She still won't do much on fly, but sheepies are her specialty.
The only sheepie I recall catching on a fly was in East Matagorda Bay a few years ago. I blind cast a Redfish Crack at a small oyster bar where a red had been waking just before I waded up in range. My buddy and I were quite surprised.
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Would like to see a pic of that fly.
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Caught a few this weekend in cocodrie
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Looks like a ball of fuzz but the sheepies i fish down here love it. Dragging it slowly to get their attention and letting them eat it off the bottom has worked well for me. Hopefully it works for you too if you decide to give it a try
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Thanks! It looks like there might be bead chain eyes under that Loon?
My buddy the trout bum flew down and met me in S La the weekend before Thanksgiving. He caught the first three sheepies he had ever seen. He had no idea what they were or how hard they can be to catch. Yours truly with the photo bomb
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My nemesis on fly....hope to get some this winter.
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