Hey John Skinner Thanks for giving a shout out to The WMHS Fishing Club Annual March Fishing Event!

Loved chatting with you in Providence! What a pleasure.

Good tip on how to deal with dolphins. I've seen a lot of other folks have issues with them but none of them ever point out how to address it. This is good to know when I'm out there. Essentially ignore them and the reason you're there and they'll go away.

@harrisgraves592

3 ай бұрын

Im gonna try that with these Alaskan sealions.

@Fishing4Reel

3 ай бұрын

@@harrisgraves592 We'll have to start taking a magazine to thumb through until they get bored and leave. 😄

Be more careful, he says to the giant sheepshead upon release… classic!

Hey John a good tip is to grab them by their eyeballs to hold them a little better, it’s almost like grabbing behind the gills on a fluke in that little spot. Also I know it’s easy to buy them but it’s very easy to catch fiddler crabs if you find a sandy muddy flat and bring a long crowbar to push up their holes without much work

Loving the kayak trips. It's like being in the boat with you. Great with the minimal narration. Good stuff! Thanks!

I'm giving you a thumbs up 👍 for the dolphins alone.

When I lived in the Fl panhandle fiddler crabs were abundant, easy to catch and free. Never used anything other than blue claw.

Fiddlers are great when you can find them. Issue is that they are tough to find in winter time. Some people swear by the frozen sand fleas but never tried myself. Ive also seen guys clean up on sheepshead with a mini vudu shrimp.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

I've tried frozen sand fleas from a tackle shop and the sheep wouldn't touch them.

Love the videos. Thank you sir.

It was a pleasure to meet you at RISA! Great presentation! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

That sure is a fast bait! I have to check for fiddler crabs next time I go to Algarve (they don't exist further up North). Great sheepshead at 9:00, and good action overall!

Hi John, I'm surprised you have never used fiddler crabs on LI. Growing up on I used to buy them all the time from Sea Isle in Freeport. I heard they stopped shipping them up because a box busted open on the plane and they had crab for days...

We use fiddlers for weakfish here on the Delaware bay

Thank El Nino for that weather!

Nice sheepers!

I can't wait to use my ML I just bought. Going to really test myself on some big tog with it in Maryland at the end of the month.

Fish Fiddlers and Mud crabs like Green crabs, but without breaking the shell - it makes it easier to steal. Just go in though a back leg and through the back of the shell.

See you in Providence. Love your videos.

It's good to see some green returning to the mangroves.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Very slow progress.

Thank you Mr. Skinner…. I learn so much from watching your videos…🍻

ARGH! I know when Spring is just about here when Skinner decamps for the frozen north to get ahead of the Spring bass season. Saw the thumbnail for this vid and got excited! Total head-fake!! Worse than the damn groundhog.

"Be more careful" - priceless

I mentioned when I saw you at the fishing expo last weekend that I got onto some redfish when in FL - what I didn’t mention was that it got shut down by a dolphin. Man that thing just wouldn’t leave, and it was thrashing the bunker… scaring away every damned thing.

Waiting for some Everglades grouper action on the Gulf Steam Jigs ? Also waiting for a dolphin to leap over your kayak !

Sheepshead = florida blackfish delicious 😋!

Hey John, I started using mussels bought from the grocery store that comes in a pack for $3… those work well for sheep too

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Awesome info!

@yoink_fishing

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnSkinnerFishing they’re stacking up in texas. I got transporting tired of live shrimp and the fiddlers aren’t out. I outfished the charter boats using live shrimp on mussels!

@yoink_fishing

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnSkinnerFishing launching my lure products very soon. Mostly inspired by your jigs by S&S

John- On one of your setups, Looked like you hade a shrimp lure. How does that work. When are you using it?

Fish after fish... what a great day of fishing.

When I'm fishing near cover my 1st cast always always always goes in a tree 😂. Especially if I'm throwing big lures for muskies

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

So it's not just me...

Missed you at the Ward Melville show John. I can’t believe how cold SW Florida still is. It’s MARCH!!!!

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

It's better now. Was cold before I came up for the show.

@anthonyocchiogrosso5519

3 ай бұрын

I sat in at your seminar at Ward Melville, it’s always good. Blackfishing with light spinning tackle and jigs by far is my favorite type of fishing. I have friends that have gone south for sheepshead and they say it’s like Blackfishing, I have never fished for them, some of my friends say it’s better. What’s your thoughts comparatively speaking .

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

It's exactly blackfishing in that you use as light a weight jig as possible, wait through the little bites for the jig to move, then fight to keep them from breaking you off on the structure.

Where did you launch (round about) from John? Is that the power lines in Masters Landings or PI Sound power lines ? Love the kayak content, more of a challenge.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Launched from my dock. I dont know what masters landing is.

chicken of the sea!

We catch our own fiddlers in a lot of places. They can get quite expensive to buy... I think they were almost $6 a dozen last time i bought them

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

That's about what they cost. I'm told there are fiddlers running around this area in the summer, but not winter.

@afout07

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnSkinnerFishing oh I'm sure they're all over the place there when it's warmer. It's gotta be in the high 70s for a few days here for them to start coming out. $6 a dozen is quite expensive to me, especially considering you usually want several dozen for a day of fishing

John, you never usede fiddlers when they used to sell them here in NY?? I still remember getting them for blackfish fishing when I was a kid on LI.

If you have leftover fiddler crabs be sure to put egg carton pieces in your container to give them something to hide in. If you leave them without shelter they will fight to the death and you will be left with only one or two "gladiator" fiddlers.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Cool tip.

Nice sheepshead your catching! Are they good table fare?? How big do they get??

@eugeneweeks3325

3 ай бұрын

Great to eat and they get up to around 30 inches but the good eaters range from 12-18 inches.

@jtpalooki7757

3 ай бұрын

That dock owner should charge admission!

Fish patrol 😅

john, you dont fish with fiddlers for blackfish up north? in the western sound i fished with them and asians all the time.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Nope. Greens mostly and some asians.

Do you prefer black fishing or sheephead? How about taste?

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Definitely blackfish fishing. It's a toss-up on taste.

How is it that the little Mangrove Snappers that are surely down there don't grab that crab before the Sheeps do? They got big enough mouths for that little crab. Are the sheep chasing them down and taking it from them?

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

That's a great question. The underwater portions of this video show that when crabs go down, sheep are on them. When you toss shrimp, they get more interest from the snappers. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qXhpxslyfbjanM4.html

😂😂😂 just pretend nothings happening lol that's too funny.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

It works!

@frankd6985

3 ай бұрын

The GOAT

Would be a mistake to completely move off of mud crabs… they are PB producers.

I caught crabs once. Once

John what’s your feelings on “ghost” white crabs?

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

Great for big blackfish on deep wrecks and in cold water, but harder to keep alive than greens.

John, when would you not use brightly colored line? My eyes are not so good anymore.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't feel good about using it on the flats for spooky fish, but I have no evidence that it's a problem.

@briananderson8185

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnSkinnerFishing thanks.

@Engineer_Heathen

3 ай бұрын

Just use a long leader.

scrap the barnacles off and use them. even better

Why would you fish in such a little boat with huge sharks at bay.Thats crazy theres no way i would.That would scare the hell out of me to know theres a shark in there that could bite me in half.

@JohnSkinnerFishing

3 ай бұрын

A little research might put you more at ease about it. There has only been one fatal shark attack ever recorded in Southwest Florida, and it was over 130 years ago when a guy was in the water trying to free a tarpon from his net. You are many times more likely to get killed driving to the grocery store than you are kayaking in Southwest Florida.