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Fiddlers? Buy or catch em?

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#1 ·
Going to do a little sheepshead fishing this weekend and I really want to use fiddlers. Not sure if the bait shop (Half Hitch PCB) has any. Do you guys usually buy or catch them? If catch, where and how?
 
#2 ·
Best way to get them is at the bait shop. Otherwise, you have to locate a substantial "colony" to set your trap near (preferably a nice grassy marshy area). I used to take an old bucket and bury it with the top about level with the sand, then throw a few dead shrimp in it to attaract them. Came back in the early AM before going fishing and had quite a few of the buggers trapped in my bucket.
 
#6 ·
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSBMei0-jts

I want to try this once I get the boat running. I figure its too late by the time i get the boat up next month but will be in my mind this year. I figure I'll have so much I can experiment w/ some chum recipes I've got in my mind when I am able to fish the sheepie runs in the future. I've been out a few times when the fiddlers were running like this, between big lagoon and robertson island(find a good marshy/sandy area) but that was pre ivan, and haven't been regularly since '08/'09 so I'm sure a lot of the bars that I used to go to have changed a bit.
 
#10 ·
Pretty neat trick with the PVC pipe. The guy had more trouble herding his buddy than he did herding the fiddlers. Thing is, he could have dipped em with that sand flea rake and been gone ten or fifteen minutes before they were finished. Just use the pipe and forget burying a bucket and use the sand flea rake.
 
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