Sheepshead Fishing in the Jacksonville, Florida Area
Northeast Florida is home to some very good sheepshead fishing, especially during the winter months. Sheepshead do well in cooler water and they will feed pretty consistently in the inshore waters around Jacksonville. You have plenty of places to fish for them here with the inlet, river mouths, jetties and docks, so if you want to target them, you should be able to figure out a pattern on any given day. On some of the colder days in the winter, sheepshead will be the fish that helps make fishing exciting since they are usually willing to bite.
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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