Devo's sheephead unlimited!

[devoknevo]

zim298.....No relation. As you said, freshwater sheepshead, aka freshwater drum or (I love it) gaspergoo, is a direct cousin of the famed redfish (red drum). Also related to seatrout (aka speckled trout [not brook trout], or squeteage or weakfish), black drum, and about 250+ other species of good eating and sport fish on both coasts and worldwide. That Atlantic Ocean saltwater sheepshead is in a different unrelated family. It has another favorite family member, porgie (scup). Hey....check out this link about saltwater sheepsheads.....

The sheepshead fish has human teeth, but it's okay because ..

Panfish,

I officially appoint you "Sheepshead Unlimited Historian".

Great posts on an underrated species!

Thanks, dEv-0///////