Sheepshead like to graze around hard structures such as pilings and jetties. They feed on fiddler crabs, mud crabs, shrimp and barnacles, including small oysters, clams and mussels.

Today I want to cover some of the side fishing that we did. First I have to deviate on a small side angle. My son-in-law was fishing up front and saw a few alligator gar cruising around.

I typically would not use a 1 oz stingnose for perch, however, in this deep Lake Erie water and if the perch are aggressive, you can get away with it. Normally, though, I would use small-size ...

Because of recent fishing pressure, the daily bag limit for sheepshead has been lowered from 10 fish to eight. Anglers targeting red drum (redfish) can no longer keep an oversized fish as part of ...

Nobody thought Mike Esposito could be coaxed to abandon his offshore fishing passion. Yet, it was a Times Captain's Corner by Capt. Doug Hemmer on sheepshead fishing that motivated his first back ...