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Imagine catching a sheephead this big on the flats. This is what happened today out of Aucilla River over toward Econfina. Dixie Rebel caught this one...right at 3 1/2 lbs. He thought he had a record redfish...but alas...only a sheephead.
We went on to catch 8 trout, 2 nice reds and this sheephead. All in all a good days fishing. Didn't start out this way though. Did not have a trout @ 1100 hrs. Got 8 by 1330 hrs. Got a dukes mixture too....jacks, gar, crab,....got a crab on a c/t, trout, redfish, lizardfish, ladyfish (she was again no lady).
All fish were caught on green curlytail grubs with gulp trailers. We had close to $200 worth of gulp shrimp with us....but no takers today.
I've seen a lot of sheephead tailing on the oyster beds and wondered how I would catch them off the flats. I guess I could chunk a fiddler up there on a light line.
JSuber.....I
ve seen more fiddlers this year than in many a year. They are "coming back" to places they have been gone for 10-15 years....like Aucilla River....Yates Creek. I've seen them by the thousands around Yates' Creek lately.
Previews a good coming year for sheepheads when winter really gets here....and this one is as big as I have seen from around here.
When I left St. Marks Monday Night they were hered up in the grass by the millions. Redfish will surly be feeding up in the long stuff on those extra high tides.
Imagine catching a sheephead this big on the flats. This is what happened today out of Aucilla River over toward Econfina. Dixie Rebel caught this one...right at 3 1/2 lbs. He thought he had a record redfish...but alas...only a sheephead.
Good report.
