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. 

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.

Tight lines!

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Here are a few pics from a few of my trips last week.
Fishing has been very good other than the fog and wind.

 Doug and his son Trey had fun hooking up on these two big Reds after a quick pic they were released!

 Joe is all smiles after hooking up on some big Sheepshead!

Sam hooked this red but is was just over the slot so after a qick pic it was released back to be caught another day.!

Tight Lines

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Capt. John Rivers
850-341-9816
Pensacola, Fl
Mega-Bite Inshore Charters

The sheeps have been on FIRE at the pass. I've still got fillets from 3 days ago.

Mako 284 w/ twin 250 verados