How To Tie The Best Rig To Catch Big Sheepshead Around Structure

Although you can catch sheepshead year-round, the prime time for the bigger fish is coming up!

And you’ll want to have the best rig to make sure you land these big boys!

So in this new rig video, you’ll learn how to tie the best rig for sheepshead to use around heavy structure in fast current and deep water.

It's a simple rig for sheepshead that allows you to effectively target sheepshead where they thrive: bridge pilings, docks, and deeper water.

Have any questions about this rig?

What's your favorite sheepshead rig?

[HowardHosford]

I Love this setup and how Simple it is. Works great!

[kurtkarasch]

just use a surgeons loop for the weight and dropper loop for the hook. much stronger and easier.

[browngaddyoutdoors]

my go to for sheepshead. Been having great luck with sand fleas!

[curtmurdurk]

You really know what your talking about your spot on with everything just from my experience I can say that

[sakfpv]

This was awesome, and I'm glad the big sheepshead are coming around d soon.

[andrewmorke]

I learned this rig on West Coast rock fishing charters. Good results.

[paulhuval]

Sheepshead are fun to catch and even better to eat.👍

[ItsCartelBoy]

My question is do they pull or do they hook there selfs and run with it then I set the hook ? Sheep’s head are very to new to me

[eugenegress]

Great set up. I hope to Do some of that kind of fishing. I may see if I can do the same rif set up; double dropper rig, for perch. It may really be tough to get a Doubled line Through a Aberdeen hook eye. NOW ...there is an Idea, Speciality Aberdeen Hooks, with 2x ect bigger hook eye, so you can add and remove the hook.
Great Video, Much Thanks!

[dwightcassidy]

Do you tie the leader to a swivel to the main line?

[aintraboona]

Does it make a difference which side of the hook you insert the line? Looks like you went through the back of the hook. Any particular reason you didn’t go through the front?

[webincomeincome]

Thanks for video but surgeon loop for sinker is much faster. Also a dropper loop knot causes hook to sit up and down better for higher hookup ratios. Lastly hook loop needs to be shorter so you feel bite better.

[benh]

I see sheepers in my Jetty piling, along with a bunch of smaller reef type fish that devours anything ( shrimp, crab, sandfleas). All that interference is a pain.

[ROK]

That non slip mono loop is tightened incorrectly. The tag end should be pulled towards the loop not in the opposite direction. That way the knot is streamlined with the tag pointing downward and weeds can’t snag on it.
The way it’s tied here, you’re making the knot round and might as well tie a surgeon’s loop which is much easier and faster. The non slip mono loop is a great knot for lures and weedy spots and overkill for weights

[ktulu]

This method is more time consuming and not as efficient as it could be. You did a simple double surgeons for the hook but not the sinker. Double surgeons is good but it doesn’t completely go straight down with the main line once cinched. It also restricts a lot of the movement on the hook.

Better method is to do the double surgeons for the sinker and a loop knot for the hook. Looks like you put more work in getting the weight on there than the presentation and action of the hook

[hudsonr.]

Anyone else lost him when he said around the line itself?

[neocaridaniel]

Seems like most people are moving to bottom sweepers round herr.

[swn]

The second knot you tied for the hook loses strength tying that way. Look up how to tie a dropper loop (San Diego style) and THAT is a much better, stronger loop for your hook.

[jamesscarberry]

Great 1/2 a video It went black halfway through 🤷🏻‍♂️

[jayreid]

You go way to fast showing how to tie dropper loop