Chapter II To reach Sheepshead Point, a boat steams daily, and several times a day, from a station on the line of a great railway skirting the eastern Atlantic coast.
The cottage people who have come down to Sheepshead have a tacit agreement to keep to themselves, just now.
In addition, hand line or bass rod fishing can be enjoyed for sheepshead and channel bass.
August, 1768: Hauling the seine upon the bar of Cedar Point for sheepshead but catched none.
Each Wednesday and Saturday, we dine on fish all the summer, always plenty of rock, perch, and crabs, and often sheepshead and trout.
One kind whereof is by the English called a sheepshead from the resemblance the eye of it bears with the eye of a sheep.
Illustration: The sheepshead was one of the favorite seafoods of Tidewater Virginians from the beginning.
But it wasn't quite the same old Sheepshead Bay that Tim went back to.
Then he knew that he was not lying in the loft atSheepshead Bay.
The Holland stable was already quartered atSheepshead Bay when the Colonel and Tim arrived with the two-year-olds.
The men who were set to rob the couple meantime dodged along on their trail, keeping far in shore toward the Sheepshead Bay, and their leader was chuckling all the time.
On the following day the two detectives, well gotten up for their "chumming" scheme, started down for the Sheepshead Bay track.
Put six slices of sheepshead into a buttered baking-pan, spread with the sauce, and bake slowly for an hour.
But as I told her I hadn't onpacked nothin' but my nightgown and sheepshead night-cap I could git along with it, specially as sheepshead night-caps packed easier than full crowned ones.
At Sheepshead Bay there is a turf course, but it is only used for a minority of races.
The principal events of this character, such as the Brooklyn Handicap at Gravesend and the Suburban at Sheepshead Bay, have for years drawn the largest attendances of the racing season.
For sheepshead you want clam bait--for the others, mullet is best.
Then a school of sheepshead came along, of which we got a dozen.
Then the thoroughbred racer Foxkeen was poisoned in his stall at Sheepshead Bay.
Why when I couldn't spend a few hours at old Sheepshead Bay I nearly resigned.
There was very little of the sheepshead left when this, its last assailant, shoved his plate back, the signal that he could do no more.
I'll answer for it that he has a sheepshead at the end of his line that will weigh eight or ten pounds.
When hooked, the sheepshead makes strenuous efforts to reach the bottom, which is very trying to a light rod.
For instance, the cunner and sheepshead are expert bait stealers.
The rest of the way I had to foot it through snow and slush knee-deep in the face of a blinding storm, and got to Sheepshead Bay dead beat, only to find that the ice and the tide had shut off all approach to the island.
Even after Hitler came into power, he worked on Sheepshead Bay boats.
Schenectady and as an engineer on Sheepshead Bay boats.
I called upon Dieckhoff in the two-story house in Sheepshead Bay where he lived.
You work in Brooklyn, live in Sheepshead Bay and save ten dollars a week in Port Richmond with a friend?
Nevertheless Dieckhoff, who was with the German Air Corps during the World War, instead of going to his home in Sheepshead Bay, drove to the home of Albert Nordenholz at 1572 Castleton Ave.
See if you can’t bring in a sheepshead or some other fish weighing five or six pounds and fit for roasting.
The sheepshead needs teeth only for the purpose of crushing the shells of barnacles and the like, and in that way getting at its food.
In Florida the fiddlers can be scooped up by the peck on the inside beaches of the bays, and contiguous to good sheepshead fishing.
It is usually taken in seines in the bays of the Gulf coast, and salted with mullet and sheepshead by the fishermen.
A small sheepshead is a more adroit stealer of bait than the cunner.
The difference in flavor between the sheepshead of the North and South may perhaps be due to the character of their food.
In Florida the sheepshead is almost gregarious, congregating about oyster bars, old wharves, and near inlets in great numbers.
While the sheepshead often bites at all stages of the tide, the most favorable time is about slack water; from that stage, to half flood or half ebb, good success may usually be expected.
The four were job holders in one of the New York city departments, and they were talking about ways and means of reaching the Sheepshead track for the Suburban.
We got a children's party up in the ballroom for Aileen this afternoon, and then Trixie and I are going to motor down to Sheepshead for the indoor polo-match.
That time when we sneaked down to Sheepsheadand you lost your wad at the wheel and I won it back for you.
So close were the banks of wet, black earth, that they heard the crabs scuttling down them, and Porringer made a jab with his pole at a great sheepshead lying perdu alongside.
Close to the sheepshead is a smaller species known as Salema (Archosargus unimaculatus), with blue and golden stripes and a black spot at the shoulder.
The sheepshead is a quiet bottom-fish, but takes the hook readily and with some spirit.
When the mackerel is caught, trout, bass, and sheepshead cannot vanquish him in a gastronomic tournament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheepshead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
