Sheepshead Fishing Like You've NEVER Seen Before!

you know yeah yeah yeah yeah hurry up it's a good one that's another 20. look at him oh yeah decent morning what do you think we're gonna do today Cody hopefully find some sheep some sheep's head good morning y'all welcome back to the channel Captain Collier here we are leaving the East End of Dauphin Island Alabama right now in the Sea Hunt and uh it's time it's time to come out here and get some of these sheep's head while they're spawning offshore at these near shore rigs so that is the goal for today we've got some fiddler crabs I've got some dead shrimp and I even have some Barnacles in case we need them sheep's head are definitely out here hopefully we can get some big ones we are still fishing the convict Classic Tournament or at least I am so any big fish that I catch I'm going to measure and enter for this tournament and I think Cody may have caught like three Sheepshead in this whole entire life yeah so if y'all are new to the channel this is Cody aka Mr Potato Head yeah the OG subscribers y'all know we're gonna quit rambling on here hopefully we can get on out here and get on some fish if y'all enjoy this video please give me a thumbs up consider subscribing if you like all types of saltwater fishing let's get to fishing [Music] all right guys we have made it to our spot here this is just a rig probably about seven or eight miles offshore of Dauphin Island and it is a beeper and you'll probably hear that throughout the video unfortunately and what that means is it's an unmanned rig generally whenever they beat like that so there's no there's not always someone on this rig but y'all check out the screen right here 50 foot of water all that right there that is spawning sheep's head got a 69 degree water temperature we actually or I actually just caught a stud just to make sure there was some fish here we got them in the Live Well I'm going to be throwing most of my fish in the live well Cody's going to be throwing his in the box if we do keep some smaller ones all right so the setup I'm going to be using today this is a pen spin Fisher this is a 4500 I've got that rigged up with 30 pound braid got 30 pound fluorocarbon leader to our gamma katsu hook a little small egg weight right there so knock a rig and uh you're probably wondering why I'm using such a heavy setup here and I typically do use heavier setups out here because you never know when you could possibly hook a state record sheep's head I don't know if y'all know but I used to have the Alabama state record sheep's head which was 13 and a half pounds before it was beat actually twice in the last five years but you just never know when you might hook that big one if you're using a lightweight setup you're just not going to be able to pull them out of the structure without them breaking y'all so as I was sitting here kind of walking Cody through how we're going to fish this rig current's moving this way so you kind of want to get your bait in front let your bait drift back to the rig to the structure I like to keep my line just tight enough to where you can feel if you're getting a bike and whenever you feel the weight on the end of that Rod tip like I'm getting a bite right now let them take it let them swim off with it and then set the hook okay where you going Cody great that's a year 18 inch heater [Applause] so this is about the average size that we catch out here and as mentioned before all most of the sheep that I'm going to be catching today I will be releasing anyways so I'm just gonna throw them all in the live well here and then I'll measure them out and chunk them back one at a time so we're starting out using these crabs I don't have but probably two or three dozen so we're going to try and make the best of what we have and then I do have some dead shrimp as well and I've got some frozen dead crabs should work but there's also other species like Spade fish and Snapper and whatnot that will eat the shrimp so you just gotta kind of fight through them there's another bite let's see so that is a yeah 18 and a half sheep's head right there it's about the average size out here and you'll notice as I said these fish are spawning so from time to time you'll see them uh you know doing their thing while we're out here so you got to watch yourself so we're gonna try a piece of this dead shrimp here put a little small Chunk on here I do like to peel the skin off so we got a little buffet for them there that's a crab and a dead shrimp Spade fish and the red snapper are really bad around these rigs but there's a sheep on the dead shrimp [Applause] so that is obviously a female right there you can see her belly is just slat full of eggs got him doubled up oh what up on the sheet on the Spade good hook set good hook set all right yo this is the first one that I caught this is a 21 and a half inch fish so we're gonna go ahead and get a good quick picture and release on this one we definitely want her to go back come on all right we back in business went ahead and released all them other fish that I had in the live well there you go Cody that might be maybe possibly nope Spade grab one of these crabs yes they do eat I've not learned the art of the year I'm gonna get in there and get the dead ones well that might be my problem right there just got that one yeah Barb gone yep there he is that's the Sheep you want to know them there we go throw him in the Box that's an eater oh yeah good eater well you gotta be 15. 12. oh he's he's definitely good definitely yep yeah it's a little bit better one Maybe yeah he's net Worthy boom Maybe Cody has finally got the hang of things here yep thank you sir yep you'll notice they get even more fired up too as you start catching some yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah hurry up it's a good one that's another 20. look at him it's free [Laughter] dude 20 incher on the line and Cody's going to net it and hooks free uh free Nets the other one dude look how fat that one is man that's a giant whoa whoa that one is a horse that was pretty sick Cody gone there's a monster let's keep them in the boat yeah we're gonna go ahead and take a picture of this one and get her back oh that's the new lunker baby what is it 22 22 and three quarters dude that's a look how many eggs yeah man she is fat so we're off to the camera real quick is a massive sheep's head right there super fat definitely a female probably got thousands of eggs in her belly right there we're gonna get a quick release video get her back in the water well I gotta say for the amount of time that I've been fishing out here I don't think I've ever seen someone free knit a sheep's head like that but we we did it if that tells you how thick they are Cody's even catching yeah you gotta think like people come out here on these pretty days like this and actually get 10 fish a person and they got like four people on the boat you could really put a hurting on these fish so it's it's best to uh release at least the big ones you know I understand some people don't get to come out here and do this all the time but these big fish are the ones that are making all the small ones yeah we're gonna need we're gonna need the net for this one this might be one of them big ones unless he's just playing with me I think it is a good one yes sir yeah baby there's another 20. woohoo [Applause] garage [Music] man what a sheep what a date what a morning we even get started let's get you on this board and get you back in the water real quick that is 21 and a half inch fish you stay right there oh all right so we kind of cleared that other side off we moved to the other side I do have some dead crabs here that I've had in the freezer for like probably three months they got a little smell to them but they're working uh you we need to net him he's a little thick more worried about the rod snapping and Kim coming off man I can see them they're just right on them dang legs chewing on the barnacles oh yeah you might need a new hook there buddy what oh heck yeah oh I might better get a double yeah over there oh I better get a double oh they're gone dang very nice let's get a picture of that one with you you need a good sheep pick yeah yeah somebody's got to do it go ahead it was Cody sit here catching 22 inch fish on that it's not a kamikazu it's a God bless you was he way out here too he was here throw him throwing them back yeah dude that was a monster I felt the weight on that joker oh I'm on I'm on I think he's chewing on it oh shoot my lines way over here I'm sitting here look I thought my bait was over here it was way over here maybe be good you know after you don't call you know uh six or seven twenties they all kind of look average 22. foreign probably going to move to one of these other rigs in the background just so just so we don't have this annoying beeping sound because it is starting to give me a headache but it's hard to leave the fish when they're here you know yep don't leave fish to find fish that is that's a fact but great thing about our area is there's just so many rigs out here probably a dozen maybe two dozen Rigs and probably a 15 mile area and they pretty much all have sheep's head on them some may have more or bigger ones than others just kind of got a jump around until you get on a good little school there's a bite see we let them eat on it a little bit come on oh yeah there he is oh no he's going to the ring no okay we got them coming this way I did go back to my lighter setup I got broke off on my other one and just didn't feel like you know no we eat them didn't feel like tying on but that's probably a 18 and a half inch fish we have started keeping a few of the ones about this size here in Alabama we're able to keep 10 per person at 12 inches to the fork very rarely why I keep any fish that small this is let's see this is a oh I'm sorry 19 and a half so I just heated a 19 and a half inch sheet that's why I need my big reel that right there that was a big one that was a 10 plus pounder done good Troll Motor done good keep it up a beautiful hot day hot fishing too Cody how many sheep's head would you say you caught today he didn't even fish as much as I did 30 40. 30 40 fish I probably caught 30 or 40 fish like I said I'm not going to be able to put all them fish in the video but man we had a good time out here released a bunch of fish still have some absolutely beautiful weather but we're out of bait we have caught Plenty of Fish I've entered a lot for the tournament I'll put a little screenshot of where I'm at right here if y'all want to just keep up with uh my standings and whatnot but hey if y'all want to come out and do this y'all book a charter with me I've got some openings early April still be just as good out here it'll start to uh calm down probably mid to late Mar uh April but uh right now they're biting good as you can see and having a good time while we're doing it so hope you all enjoyed the video hope you learned something if you did 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Channel: Capt.Collier

Views: 222,356

Keywords: Fishing, offshore, sheepshead, alabama, dauphin island, bay boat, sea hunt, fiddler crabs, crazy

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Length: 17min 48sec (1068 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 19 2023