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My original plan was to focus on Lynnhaven Inlet, with possible side trips to Rudee and a little surf fishing for roundhead and drum around North Beach. And, if the wind was right, maybe a trip out of the inlet to look around for spanish and blues around the pound nets.
I stuck to Lynnhaven the whole time. This is only my second year targeting sheepshead and I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. Bottom sweepers and fiddlers hooked from the underside so they present as upright when the jig sits on the bottom seem to outperform almost every other approach. I concentrated on the docks and some deep holes along channel edges along sod banks (they hold plenty of sheephead, though no one ever seems to target them there.) I ended up with four of them (and god knows how many missed ones), as well as two incidental red drum that bit on fiddlers. One was under the Lesner, the other back on sod banks. I also picked up a keeper flounder on a live mullet on a carolina rig drifted along the channel.
While cleaning one of the drum tonight I ran across something I've never seen before: a small brown mass in the meat, about the size and shape of a grain of rice, embedded in the flesh. I assume it was a parasite. Cut it out just to be sure, but I guess it could have also been an injury that healed up. The only parasites I've ever seen in saltwater fish are worms in the guts of cobia, anchor worms on reds/stripers, and sea lice on the gills of stripers.
I stuck to Lynnhaven the whole time. This is only my second year targeting sheepshead and I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. Bottom sweepers and fiddlers hooked from the underside so they present as upright when the jig sits on the bottom seem to outperform almost every other approach. I concentrated on the docks and some deep holes along channel edges along sod banks (they hold plenty of sheephead, though no one ever seems to target them there.) I ended up with four of them (and god knows how many missed ones), as well as two incidental red drum that bit on fiddlers. One was under the Lesner, the other back on sod banks. I also picked up a keeper flounder on a live mullet on a carolina rig drifted along the channel.
While cleaning one of the drum tonight I ran across something I've never seen before: a small brown mass in the meat, about the size and shape of a grain of rice, embedded in the flesh. I assume it was a parasite. Cut it out just to be sure, but I guess it could have also been an injury that healed up. The only parasites I've ever seen in saltwater fish are worms in the guts of cobia, anchor worms on reds/stripers, and sea lice on the gills of stripers.
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