Sheepshead Fishing in the Mexico Beach, Florida Area
Most anglers fish for sheepshead around docks, pilings, bridges and jetties that are located inshore. In this area, you don’t have inshore water to fish unless you head over to nearby St. Joseph Bay. For anglers looking to catch some sheepshead at Mexico Beach, you are going to have to find them around the reefs and wrecks nearshore and offshore.
The Mexico Beach area has so many good fishing spots nearshore and offshore due to the Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association (MBARA). They do an amazing job at bringing more fish into this area, so anglers do not have to venture way off shore to find quality fish to catch. Sheepshead can be found on many of the bottom structures in this area.
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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