Sheepshead Fishing in the Amelia Island Area
The sheepshead fishing is very good in this area. The inlets provide excellent fishing opportunities for sheepshead and you can catch them year round here. The jetties tend to consistently hold sheepshead in the inlet. You can also find plenty of sheepshead inshore around docks, pilings and bridges. The fishing is very good for sheepshead during the winter months.
Sheepshead Fishing Tips
Sheepshead are one of the tougher saltwater fish to catch on artificial lures. It can be done, but using live or natural baits can out fish lures by 10 to 1 or more at times. It is easy to understand why most anglers just go with live bait and they don’t even mess with lures when fishing for sheepshead. Shrimp and fiddler crabs are the most popular baits, but don’t rule out a variety of cut baits, oysters and sand fleas. Sheepshead are known for stealing your bait and they also are a tough fish, so make sure you have a strong enough hook and a solid medium-heavy to heavy action fishing rod or you will lose a lot of fish.
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