I hear you can use a crappie pole to catch sheephead along the Jetties. Has anyone use a crappie pole and how should I rig it...hook size,lb test line...

I never have used a crappie pole, but do use a smaller setup. Last time out I used a 7 foot light rod with a light spinning reel. Caught more than anyone else. A big one broke my reel, it was only 30 years old and on its last leg anyways.

Hey thanks crawdaddct I am going this Thursday and Friday going to try packery Jetties and port a Jetties....what were you using for bait....single hook or treble hook ??

Use a #6 or #8 treble hook, a split shot, a float, 24-30" leader. Fiddler crabs is best but in winter they will take fresh dead or better yet live shrimp. Good luck!

#6 strait hook, with a self setting shank. If you use a cork, use a small one so you can see them chewing on your bait. There is a reason they are known as a bait stealers. I used fresh dead shrimp.

I usually fish from a boat but I just use my regular gear. Typically, a Curado on a 6'6 rod with 30 lb braid. I thread on a 1/2 -1oz egg then tie to a swivel, then 18" of flouro, then a small J-hook. We use good fresh dead if available. Otherwise, we buy a quart of live. Thread the shrimp on the hook. I toss near the rocks. Once the bait hits bottom, I give it a couple seconds then lift the rod tip then repeat. It's similar to fishing a texas rig worm. I just bounce the shrimp down the rocks. Rarely (at the POC jetty) does the shrimp make it back to the boat. It's either bit by a sheephead, picked off by undersized sheeps, or hung on the rocks.

Years ago, I used to see folks at the PA jetties using long rods to dangle baits in and around the rocks. So a crappie rod may work. A 20" sheep may be a handful though. For some reason sheepheads think they are bullreds when you hook them.

I Guide out of POC and I prefer using a straight hook with as light a weight as current will allow. Let it go to the bottom and then just lift the rod up and down slowly and Hang On. They really like live shrimp but you can catch all you want on dead shrimp. Be careful of the fins and DON'T put a finger in their mouth. Happy catching.

If you can pump live ghost/sand shrimp, sheeps love em! Crappie pole...if you catch little ones, okay, but you hit a 4 pounder or better it'll snap it like noodle.

How do you rig ghost shrimp? Even threading them on they don't seem to stay on very well.