Thread: sheepshead in dauphin island

Have to say it was fun about 10 people out there. And no fish was caught I had fresh dead shrimp on a popping cork against the jetties and that small pier before the jetties with no luck and also used some gulp with no luck stayed from about 10 to 6 just wasn't biting

Originally Posted by daniboy21

Have to say it was fun about 10 people out there. And no fish was caught I had fresh dead shrimp on a popping cork against the jetties and that small pier before the jetties with no luck and also used some gulp with no luck stayed from about 10 to 6 just wasn't biting

I'm using a popping cork when fish are surfacing and pushing bait up. They'll respond to the commotion and grab the live bait, as long as it is presented as a natural part of that feeding scenario. Around jetty-rocks, I'm fishing out and down and that would usually mean getting hung up in the rocks on the bottom if I'm not fishing from a boat and fishing vertically. So that means using a jig head with a paddle-tail swimbait and trying to keep it near the bottom. But that's only if I'm fishing from the jetty or around rocks. I've knocked 'em dead before in mid - late February off the pier with fresh mullet chunks fished smack-dab on the bottom. Unless there's a lot of current, you don't need a whole lot of weight. Just fling it as far South as you can and hold on. I haven't done that in years, though, because I'm more protective of my health. Standing in the cold for hours just doesn't hold the appeal to me that it used to!

Thanks Mr pier#r and eym I plan on fishing the pier somewhere around I'd April and again in June hope to see y'all maybe fish together

Yeah Haywire,i used to fish the old dauphin isl. pier for years and they would show up in massive schools early march. It took a while to figure out that when they did this they were only interested in the mating dance. Once they stopped chasing each other and swimming near the surface,like clockwork they bit agressively!! You would think they were gone because we stopped seeing them,but they were on the bottom and around the pilings. Often when we hooked one 2-3 would follow the hooked fish to the top. Happy fishing....Fool Injected