Fresh or Dead
 

Friend is coming over tomorrow morning and wants gafftop and sheephead. Which is better, froze or fresh skrimps for these species and why?? Where should we start and will 50# PP be heavy enough line??

Thanks

Dead shrimp and cut mullet for dem gafftops, they seem to love that. Ive only caught one sheeps head and it was a 2in dead pogey that I dropped in front of its face. Is your friend from texas or mississippi

Are u kidding?

Im really hoping he is kidding.

come over to stall 8 around 1pm...You can use my trout guts...I promise you will catch over 300 gaftop....
you can double or triple rig em

X2!!!!!!!

This is gunna be awesome

I really want go with yall......been dying to get on some sheaphead action

always caught em on accident on live shrimp,

Bring Calcutta with yall... he loves catching sail cats

You should really post that question on 2cool.

Don't let 2cool know we have no limits on sheepheaf and gaftop...they will flood us

Dang it,I'm on my way.

What do y'all consider trophy length on both species we are looking for record setting fish?

You always gotta stir the pot!!

Okay, for gaftop, live or dead. For sheepshead, live is much better.

Fly fisherman consider a sheephead a Louisiana permit. They hardly ever eat an artificial.

Ur one to talk, mind ur own bidness scooter.

Hot report.....sheephead thick....thick at 4 corners.....dead or live under cork

Sheephead love a chatterbait. Old jettys is where they be

Gaftop like the sebile magic swimmer......they be in the ship channel

Tim.... Thanks for the akurate report!!

Steel leaders and treble hooks right? Dumass special and a ugly stix with an approximate 1 oz egg weight

Need a spark plug For weight!:grinpimp:

Longcast could tell you the best way to rig up a pair of pliers for a weight.

$30 bait and all I've caught on it was a gaftop.......figures.

live small mullet at the jetties for gaftop, went one day and tore them things up

caught a gaftop on bone/chart rapala skittawalk the otherday on 9 mile...big ol trophy one

i caught a sheephead on a morning glory saltwater assassin once. took me at least 15mins to get the dang hook out its mouth.

I saw 2 guys had their boat up to the north bank in the south cut to West Cove on sunday. They were out of their boat walking the bank on the channel side fishing. They must of been fishing for some Sail Cats.

(this really did happen)

X2:D

"W" You are the Saltwater Messiah. Keep up the good work. The proof is in the posts. Once again, I feel your pain.

They both hit artificial. Especially Trophy Sail Cats.

Sheephead
 

They usually love dead shrimp, the more rotten the better...
And the Old Jetties should be the place to catch them, if you can't get offshore. They love to eat barnacles.

Used to catch some big ones by the hundreds against the pilings on the Old Bridge in Grand isle esp. in the winter and spring. Eatin barnacles like crazy as you could see em swimming around the pilings. Better than shrimp is fiddler crabs if you can get em. Reds like em too. We got fiddlers behind our camp just to try and smoked em.

Seen the VC eatin sheepshead raw (sushimi) w/ some soy sauce on the side as they came over the rail of the bridge. The knife was waitin!!

Your right. When I fish the Jetties my motto is bait big enough that the hardheads and gaffstop can't get it. It is amazing what those 3 lb hardheads can eat.

If the bait is big enough the cats and gaffstop will pick it up, drag it a little and then drop it. Sometimes they leave it alone long enough for a bull red to pick it up.

If you don't have any luck in Big Lake I am willing to bring you on a guided gafftop trip to Cocodrie. It's a done deal under the birds this time of year, but there are some trash fish (trout) under them as well. Just have to weed out to get the good stuff.