With sheepshead season still in ramp-up mode, an obvious question: How has the widespread use of circle hooks changed the dynamics of catching the toothy and tasty shell-cruncher? Turns out, there is ...

An older man, perhaps in his late 60s, stood atop the trestle at Placida and dropped his line straight down along a barnacle-encrusted piling. "That's where the sheepshead hang out and that's where ...

Sheepshead, as their name fairly tactlessly connotes, are not a particularly handsome fish. Like other members of the porgy family of marine fishes - and "porgy" has its own unflattering connotations ...

Bass-weight tackle with 12 to 15 pound test line is adequate for most sheepshead, though any fish over 4 pounds will be a real test on this tackle. When Gunn approaches a likely sheepshead haunt, he ...