Last week, we were reminded that we’re getting into prime sheepshead season in the intracoastal, because sheepshead have a decent tolerance for cooler water. Craig Patterson, who owns and operates ...

Eyeball to eyeball, they’re uglier than homemade soap. Small mouth but big teeth and lots of ’em. More teeth than grandpa’s rip-saw, and not exactly in decent formation. Sloped head with protruding ...

Sheepshead fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) are a species of ray-finned, predominantly marine fish commonly found along the eastern coastline of North America and South America. They are known for ...

1: At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, the water has been churned up since the storm and fishing is a bit slow. A few Spanish mackerel, whiting and black sea bass have been caught. Sheepshead are biting on ...

Anthony Petracca wasn’t just honored as the best fisherman in a local bowling league. Not tops among local concrete specialists, though, come to think of it, he probably is. Nope, Anthony isn’t just ...

Fish of the WeekSheepshead: Good numbers of sheepshead are still biting around all the bridges and most structures in the Tampa Bay area and locations elsewhere ...

The monikers and nicknames we’ve doled out to most fish species tend toward the obvious. You don’t have to be an avid angler or an ichthyologist (a scientist who studies fish)—heck, you don’t even ...

The neighborhood and the bay took their name from the sheepshead, a saltwater fish found in the bay’s waters. These fish were abundant off the shore until population numbers declined during the late ...