I had picked up two dozen nice live shrimp from Souther-N-Bama and got to the island about 9:30.
It was mostly sunny and mild (air and water temps were both in the low 60s) a slow falling tide and the water visibility was about 5 feet
Don't ya hate it when you're on your way fishing and it suddenly dawns that you forgot a vital piece of equipment
like a landing net
Sure enough on my first shrimp I hooked a nice 4# sheepshead.
After a good fight I led it to the seawall to try and reach down to lift it with one hand. Those things do NOT have a handle
And as luck (bad) would have it the fish made a lunge and the line wrapped around the rodtip and 'tink' it broke the 4# mono
So I spent the next 15 minutes rooting around the house and finally found one of those $8 white mesh nets on a 6 foot wooden handle.
But it worked just fine
The next few hours provided some good intermittent action with the sheepshead. Most on my 4# UL
It was neat watching them chase the shrimp to the suface and try to eat it
The difficult part is to wait until the right time to set the hook
I lost several to premature releases (including two slot-sized redfish) and had one other sheepshead break off on a sizzling 30 yard run over an oyster bar
But when it was done by 1 pm I had 6 in the box (plus one more caught at the Ft Gaines jetty).
Three of those were over 4#, caught on 4#
Thank You Lord for a beautiful winter day and some nice fish to spice it up even more
