Top 10 Best Baits For Catching Sheepshead
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- In this video I share the top ten most popular fishing baits for catching Sheepshead and those that are off limits according to the laws in Florida. The best fishing baits are usually relative to what's most readily available. However there are certain baits that Sheepshead are attracted to more than others.
Chapters
00:01 Intro
01:10 Live Shrimp
01:29 Fiddler Crabs
02:04 Barnacles And Oysters
03:22 Mangrove Crabs And Mud Crabs
05:37 Hermit Crabs
06:28 Blue Crabs
07:09 Store Bought Clams
07:47 Cranka Crab Lures
08:19 Sand Fleas
It's vitally important to check your state/county regulations in relation to what types of sea life fishermen can use as bait. If you get caught fishing with something that is illegal you could encounter some hefty fines. For instance shellfish may or may not be harvested in the area you are fishing in Florida. In order to find out if clams or oysters can be taken and used for bait or chum go to this website which the FWC refers seekers to: www.fdacs.gov (I'd suggest calling the "Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services" because the regulations for each county are buried on the website. It requires an abundance of time to try and find out what's legal to harvest or not on the website.) Additionally In Florida Stone Crabs and Hermit Crabs are strictly off limits to use as bait for Sheepshead or any species.
Sheepshead are equipped with an amazing set of teeth so that they can crush various types of shells, crabs and barnacles. They feed mostly on shellfish, crabs and shrimp. For this reason the meat has a mild shellfish shrimp flavor.
Here are a few legal baits that can be used:
1. Shrimp
2. Fiddler Crabs
3. Mangrove Tree Crabs
Here are some illegal marine life species that cannot be used as bait for Sheepshead
1. Hermit Crabs
2. Stone Crabs
3. Oysters (regulated by specific areas in Florida)
Where to catch Sheepshead
1. Near any structure that has barnacles
2. Along grass flats that hold crabs, clams and shrimp
3. Along Mangrove Tree lines
4. Near Oyster beds
5. Under boats that have barnacles attached to the hull
6. Rock jetties
7. Just about anywhere along the coast from Mexico to Main and beyond, inshore and off shore depending upon the time of year...
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I saved this to my Florida fishing playlist. What I like about your videos is you get right to the point and provide as much information as you can every minute we are watching. I have been fishing all my life and I still always learn from your videos. 😎👍
If you buy bait from the grocery stores make sure you keep the recipe and packaging so that you can prove to fwc that you didn’t illegally harvest anything and that it is store bought!
Another good one JC! Appreciate the shout out. That video was pretty early on, yep!
Thanks for watching. You are welcome. That was a great video for sure. I'll have to try some of those mussels this year.
Great video JC! Can’t wait to try a couple that you talked about. Thanks for all you do!
Another quality video JC, thanks for your knowledge.
Great job on the video showing the different bait for sheepshead always enjoy🦀
Very informative as always, thank you JC 👍🏽
Nice info on the mud crabs! Thanks for the videos
That was an amazing video brother..Great stuff
🐑 are my favorite to target and eat!!! Sandfleas for the win!!!
Hey JC you gotta do some more catch and cooks! Love the content as usual.
Wonderfully informative!
I enjoy all of your videos.
Great videos, making it my short term goal to catch clean and cook some keeper sheeper
Thanks for the info homie.
Good video always good content
Thanks for the education!😊😊😊😊
My favorite bait for sheepshead is a speargun. Lol great video.
Very informative video on how to catch the beautiful and delicious sheepshead 😍🎣 I really enjoyed the video from start to finish and you got a subscriber here with personalized notifications 😎 I love fishing and live in Titusville. My favorite spot for fishing is Sebastian Inlet, but I'm getting to old for the long drive every weekend, so I NEED to find a good spot because surf fishing in Playalinda is not working for me... Only whitings, sharks and catfish are eating my buffet style baits 😬🧐😁🐠
Thanks for the info my friend and many blessings to you and your loved ones 🎏🙋
nice video , thank you
Nice fishing
Most helpful JC. Sea urchins, trimmed.
Hmm. Are we sure urchins are legal to use?
@@davidleekalbjr.3035 I don't know that they're legal in FL. I know that bait stores sell them in the Carolinas and lots of anglers swear by them.
Great info JC! 🙌
Thonny a mile and a half from your last mango video. Is a dock. Sits in hole. Surrounded by flats. Scent is powerful. Catch some mud crabs. Cut in half. Put in small freezer bag. Freeze it for future use.
2/0 hook. Add live shrimp. Dip into freezer bag juice. ( can even put on small pieces of crab on ) throw it in. Sheep's can't resist. The Scent draws in the reds and drums off the flats. Can sight cast perfect eating drums 20/22.
Thonny every spot you fish i have fished it over the last 43 years. And some of jc spots. I like what you are doing. In this area your putting out good content. If I was younger I'd start ytube myself. Last video you are looking much more comfortable on the boat. Your learning fast!
Ballast park area. Little bit north. Don't want to give exactly the spot because I'm catching big sno. Read between the lines. Right now Is hot. Bring big pins. Cut top fins off. Or big grunts. Both are working well. I know it's not a spot you fish. Do some homework. Lot of 40 and 42's. It's Close to the ramp that you normally use. Just got to go across the bay
This was good for me. Landing a sheepshead is on my 2022 bingo card. It's good o know what to use and what not to use.
JC Your one cool fishing dude ! Your videos are my favorite to watch and rewatch . Keep doing your thing !!! From deltona fl!
Dude I promise you barnacles are the best. My technique is to take a handful, stomp on them crushing them up and drop them on a piling. Then put 2 or 3 on a hook freelined and drop it down along that piling. I've noticed most the time they pick it up on the way down. Give it a try man!!!
Thanks for the education 👍
You are so right, that’s all my mom used and baby she pulled them in especially when the weather turned cool.
Bloodworms? I harvested them at low tide out on the flats, them used them for bait while fishing with my wife's grampa, That was at Ft. Meyers Beach 50 years ago. Of course, I don't know how devastating the last hurricane was. Just look for the sandy tubes, put them in the bucket and crack open the tube to get the bloodworm. Always caught sheephead with them.
Ghost shrimp are the bomb in the panhandle
I’m in west palm beach, any nice flats spots or sheepshead spots ?
Ghost shrimp is by far the best.
Once someone near you starts using them the Sheepshead won't touch anything else.
I'm about to set out on Mobility Scooter adventures in Mobile Alabama, places I can ride my scooter to, local fishing spots, places of interest, the amazing Architecture this 300+ year old city has! Fishing spots where Alligators have taken stray dogs, my scooter only runs 22 mph I hope it will out run the gators (LOL) I'm a 71 year old 15 year Cancer and 2 time heart attack survivor! And I'm out to have fun after being stuck in a 4mph wheelchair for 3 years, now that I can go 22 mph I'm going to go the whole 36 miles this scooter will go everyday(lmao) My health has held me down but now I'm going to get her done buddy! I loved this video! Thanks for the tips👍👌❤
Interesting adventure you're going on Andy. Thanks for sharing.
You Sir have a great attitude on life. If I ever come up that way I would love to join in an adventure with you........ Can't keep a good man down.
Hope you're getting it done, Andy! 👍
@@jrporter50 I just got a new faster scooter JR, and it's not as scary because it has rear disc brakes🎯 and 35 mph? Pray for me dude, this 72 year old, old man is going to max it out🤣🤣Life's toooo short for old folks mode😁
@@Drewdown2002 lol no doubt 👍 have fun, Andy.
My first time fishing and I’d like to know fishing for sheep head do I have to look for certain size or not does it matter
get "fish rules" app for florida fish rules
I know you gotta be going crazy with the red tide just sitting there because I am! We belong on the water not on land. 🤙🤙
I use Octopus from the grocery store the fresh ones you get from the fresco fish market in California great bait
I usually don't use it right away I buy it and bread it into iodized salt lots of it until the meat toughing up where it wouldn't go off the hook 🪝 and I leave it sitting in that salt for a week and then I spray it with salt and garlic mix and then it's ready to use for fishing 🎣
Here you go folks I gaved you my secret recipe DIY bait
I'm pretty sure that blood worms and tube worms work for sheepshead. Tube worms are easy to find on some flats. I remember old timers talking about using them as a kid. Clams probably work but there may be legal restroom like oysters.
Several years ago I saw a guy in Tampa killing sheepshead on tube worms... not sure what species the worms were though.
Have you looked into if there's a limit on harvesting sand fleas?
I have not, but let me know if you discover an info on that topic.
2 per person per boat
Hi. A question for you. Can we fish snakehead in south Florida ? I,m a 73 years old bank angler who would like target this specie.
Il like yous videos very miuch. Thank you.
FWC website is where the answer would be
Yes, you can harvest snakehead. They are also an invasive species, so there is no regulations on them for size, quantity, or method of harvest.
I saw today somebody fishing using conk for bait 🤔
Yup. That's not legal in Florida.
Believe it or not, calamari/squid works also.
Shrimp 🦐
haha, when catching the bait is harder than catching the sheepshead.
Never realized you’re in SWFL. Lemme know if you’re ever looking for a fishin buddy
Snails