Sheepshead, a three-part series. Part 1: catching sheepshead (and walleye, because when you're fishing for walleye you catch ...

Sheepshead are a distinctive species with an oval body that is light gray with alternating vertical black stripes. When you catch one, you quickly realize you don’t want to put your fingers in ...

Like sheepshead, rock bass boast flaky white flesh, are often disdained by anglers, and are actually good eating. Ohio Sea Grant once published a recipe for Poor Man’s Shrimp, which was delicious.

The fish was close to a record catch because Bilotti said they caught it on the New York side of the bay and the New York state record sheepshead is 13-pound, 9-ounce.

Fishing pieces of shrimp on 3/8- to 1/2-ounce Sheepballs and jigheads, Gunter said the sheepshead were in full-on spawning mode, following up hooked fish to the surface.