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Pensacola - Navarre - Perdido Key PDF Print E-mail
Written by Capt. John Rivers   
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Captain John RiversApril 2nd, 2008

Man, what a day, 84 Sheepshead in 4 hours… APRIL FOOLS!

Just kidding, with the wind coming out of the SSE at a brisk 10 – 12 knots, it was a little breezy on the water today.  I met up with Tim, Kim and their two sons, Andrew and Jacob from Michigan at 7:30 am to do a little Sheepshead fishing and see what else we could hook up.  They told me that last night they went down to the Perdido Key bridge and fished a little there, but only got catfish. Well, on our first 3 drifts that’s all we caught too. I asked them who brought the catnip on my boat. I had to move spots, as it seemed this spot was littered with little 2lb meow mix critters.

After I relocated and started our drift I was sure that our catfish days were over, but noooo! Little Jacob hooked up another catfish! Then Dad said, “I’m on!” and the way his rod was doubled over, I knew it was no catfish. As the fish peeled line off the reel, I heard Tim say, “If this is a catfish it’s the biggest one I’ve ever hooked,” but as it got closer to the boat it showed its stripes and was I ever relieved; it was our first Sheepshead of the day. Mom and Andrew were eager to hook-up on some hard fighting Sheepies, too, so I rebaited the lines, and we repositioned again and started our drift.
family fishing fun!
This time we had a double hook-up and both fish were nice 4 – 6 lb Sheepies. Andrew was the lucky angler of the day, hooking up on 6 striped keepers. It was a fun day on the water, though we boated more catfish than I wanted. We ended up with 15 Sheepies, and had 3 big fish take us to the bottom and one fish straightened out a hook. Tim and his family were a delight to fish with, even though little Jacob told me at the end of the trip that he wore his lucky catfish hat.

kid holding two sheepshead

kid holding two big sheepshead

Tight Lines

Capt. John

 
Mega-Bite Inshore Charters
Capt. John Rivers
850-341-9816
Email: megabite@bellsouth.net
Website: http://www.megabiteinshore.com/



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