Stiff north wind behind a cold front had spent itself, and Sabine Lake's surface barely riffled under a light easterly breeze that promised to swing south during the day. But the air remained chilled, ...

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 ...

Sheepshead hold an interesting place in Texas' coastal recreational fishing hierarchy, just as the deep-bodied porgies with the distinctive vertical black stripes, ice pick-like dorsal fins and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sheepshead, with rows of human-like teeth protecting the palate, are notoriously difficult to hook. Fishing can be easy and ...

Sheepshead can be found in Pensacola Bay year-round, but most of the time they are hard to catch and not targeted by many anglers. That all changes in the next few weeks. During the late winter and ...

For those who are not sitting in a deer stand this month, there's lots of fishing action to be found on the waters of the Panhandle. In fact, it's the best time of the year to go after two of the ...

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 ...

Behind Seven Mile Island in Cape May County is a grassy, back-bay estuary that is brimming with very big sheepshead. They are not so easy to catch, according to those who have sought them out this ...

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 ...