Sheepshead season? anyone know when it starts in deep south texas?

Question

We're located a few miles from South Padre Island, Tx...anyone have experience with the migration patterns of this fish in this spot? because anyone thats fished for them before know that you catch them (if you're good!) one right after the other...i was just wondering when the season started, since last year was my first time with this type of fish, but i caught the season near its end.....

Answer 1

I live in SW Fl., very similar weather as you. They start showing up here in Nov. and I've caught them through April in the back bays. On the wrecks off shore it's not unusual to take them up tp 8 lbs. Catch em up!

Answer 2

UT OU is stronger on the line and the D will be tough, but they are starting a new QB. Really hard to win the Red River Shootout with UT when you have a first time QB since the game is in mid-October. Doesn't matter who Stoops puts back there -- all of them lack experience and that is all the difference in a game like this. Neither UT or OU have a tough schedule, so it will likely come down to the head to head game, and I'd give the nod to the experienced Colt McCoy. Turnovers play a huge role in that game, and expect a couple from OU. A&M is the wildcard, and they have a very tough ground game. However, UT will be looking for revenge after last year's collapse, so they won't be underestimated this time around. Remember that UT dominated this conference last year until Colt got hurt. If he stayed healthy they run the table and play for the National Championship. They lose experience on the line but the receivers are all back, as is most of the backfield. The secondary took a hit but in reality last years secondary was overrated anyway. Its burnt orange all the way.

Answer 3

I've caught them in Louisiana year round, but I've heard they are more concentrated in deeper holes in the winter. I love to catch them because they pull like bull elephants and they are great when rolled in corn meal and dropped into a pot of boiling oil.

I'll pass along a couple of tips that were passed along to me. If there is a shrimp shed on the water's edge, get as near to it as you can and just chunk a couple of handsfull of bait shrimp into the water so the tide carries them toward the shrimp shed. Then just get your baited hook into the water and wait for that unmistakable tuuuuug.

Also, during a moving tide, find a bridge piling, or any other structure that has barnacles built up on it. Use a piece of pipe or whatever you might have to bust up those barnacles into the tide. It's like ringing a sheepshead dinner bell. I work offshore and have seen sheepshead by the drove coming to platforms when construction crews were repairing structures and busting up barnacles in the process.

I almost forgot. If you can, fish jetties, rock wiers, breakwaters, and bulkheads in the warmer months. That's where I've had my best luck.

Tight lines.