crawlers on croix

Hey guys, was on the croix yesterday, holy cow did we get the sheepies, even as big as 4lbs.. Only way we could catch walleyes was on cranks kept 4…Any ideas how to keep sheepies off the crawlers??

If you soak your crawlers in gasoline for a day or two, I bet the sheepies will stay off! On a more serious and depressing note, there is no way to keep them off.

ha ha…i figured…i bet i caught 40 of them..

We caught around 30 sheepies , switched to casting crank baits in flooded shorelines.
Caught some eyes, catfish, smallmouth, and snagged a paddlefish that was so big it wouldn’t. Fit in net. Guessing it was around 35-40lbs.as we tried getting him it came unhooked. Wish I could have got a picture of that bruiser!
A 30 minute battle was awesome!!!

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Hey guys, was on the croix yesterday, holy cow did we get the sheepies, even as big as 4lbs.. Only way we could catch walleyes was on cranks kept 4…Any ideas how to keep sheepies off the crawlers??

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The trick is you need to send a message to the sheepie and all his buddies. Threaten to fillet him and all his buddies if he bites again.

If that doesn’t work, threaten to throw him on a anchored sailboat if he bites again.

Works every time.

Now thats funny, i was actually thinking of throwing them at all the clowns that troll 15 feet from you when you have the whole damn river to fish…..

Fished that river for years. If you figure out a way to keep them off, please let me know. Until then, have fun catching sheepies, still fun to be catching fish.

I had this problem last weekend, only with minnows, i was the only one catching sheepheads, the rest of the boat was catching (small) eyes and saugers.

Guess I have what they like.