Sheepshead Nursery & Surprise Catch

RevJoeyFitz

Went out on the kayak again. Went to a spot a found last week that I missed a bunch. Caught a few doz mangrove and fiddlers for bait and got to some bridge pylons. Then I started scraping barnacles. 

Did that for about 2 hours in one spot figuring I would attract something and only got 2 bites 😑 Started to bump pylons to see if I could get anything more consistently. 

Got to one spot and it was as fast as I could get a bait down. Problem was they were all less than 10” with one prob being less than 6”. Smallest sheep I ever saw. Moved to some more pylons. 

Found another pylon with the same action except these were all 11” or so. Figured there’d be a couple keepers. Nope. Got to my last bait which was a massive mangrove crab. Busted it in half because it was so big. Put it next to a pylon and felt a thump. Set the hook and it took me for a little ride! Whole time I was stressing because it was such a small hook 😅

After about a 5 minute battle, finally got it in the yak

PB black drum! Measured 24” and 6.39 lbs. Stoked! 

carolinablue2

Great catch!!! Congrats 

BottomBumpin

last cast does it again!!  so cool and that is a nice one!!! congrats!