Hey guys its little off topic but need some help with fish

Post by **CWFAsian1129** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:30 pm

Is snagging sheepsheads with treble hooks legal or illegal in central west Florida?

Post by **Ironcat** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:27 am

If you check the regulations at www.myfwc.com (which you should be doing before you target any species) you would see that yes, snatching or snagging sheepshead is illegal..

Post by **DONY1** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:50 am

And not very sporting.

Post by **Jerome** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:58 pm

Yeah not sporting at all. If you do it I hope you get caught

Post by **GoodOyster** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:04 pm

Jerome wrote:Yeah not sporting at all. If you do it I hope you get caught

Take it easy, he was asking if it was illegal, not saying he was planning to do it. Maybe he saw someone doing it or someone told him it was okay and he was wondering about it. Don't jump to conclusions.

Post by **Jerome** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:19 am

True. Sorry

Post by **deutze** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:32 am

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.

Post by **CitySlicker** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:21 am

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.

Post by **GoodOyster** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:04 pm

CitySlicker wrote: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.

Post by **CWFAsian1129** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:12 am

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

Post by **TerribleTed** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:14 pm

Cast netting any drum is legal and sporting. Sporting is legal anything legal is sporting.

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