True. Sorry
as a kid we used weighted treble hooks to snag moss bunker or squid (the former a bait-fish app 12" long) that the bluefish had herded into a ball in a feeding frenzy, and before you could get it back to the boat a bluefish would hit it and you would have the blue fish then. sometimes you just got a piece of bunker/squid back, but that was all perfectly legal. as for sporting, in a frenzy like that they would hit anything you threw out there even hooks with nothing on them. if it was shiny and/or moved it got hit. I've seen bunker swim up on the beach to get away from the bluefish, they are voracious and even took chunks out of swimmers if they happened to get caught in the middle of one of those feeds.
You are allowed to gig, and spear Sheephead. So I you think snagging would fall under the same rules, but it probably isn't as easy as some of you guys think it is. Small hook, and the smallest weight you can use to get the bait to them with a piece of crab, oyster, or sand flea with flat out tear them up.
You are allowed to gig, and spear Sheephead. So I you think snagging would fall under the same rules, but it probably isn't as easy as some of you guys think it is. Small hook, and the smallest weight you can use to get the bait to them with a piece of crab, oyster, or sand flea with flat out tear them up.
The regs specifically state that snatching sheepshead is prohibited.
I was at some place with my friends having a dinner and saw few people were snagging sheepsheads. There were lot of them because i think its their mating season but didnt tell them anything because I didnt know it was legal or not. If I see them again then maybe ill tell them next time and thank you guys for the info :cowboy
