Friday Am Fishing outgoing tide for two hours
Targeted Flounder ? something I never seem to do
Caught eight and one 19? for dinner only two keeper size
9 Trout all under 14?
1/4oz jig head + Z-Man 4? Paddler Z Houdini
Capt Dave
sounds like a pretty good day
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I wouldn’t know how to target a flounder. Any I have ever caught were nice surprises. Nice fish.
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Originally posted by DFreedomI wouldn’t know how to target a flounder. Any I have ever caught were nice surprises.[/i]
Same here, DF…
Nice fish Capt…congrats!
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I see some old timers here. So, here goes: I worked on flounder fishing for a couple of seasons and after some time got to the point where I almost never catch anything else when I am after them (though on the other hand I don’t always come home with them). But no joke, in about my last twenty trips, one red. One ray. One oyster toad (that was really different).
It’s not as exciting as red fishing or as fun as trout fishing (unless you hook a doormat which I do get occasionally), but you can bring home the meat. And tasty meat it is. No slot on them, just the minimum size. Bag limit beats redfish all to heck. Not dissing reds, just saying, I want dinner.
If you guys use your yaks to scope at lowest tides, in the side creeks where most boats won’t go until there is plenty of water, you will see where you can probably find them. Look for the holes, where they will likely be in or around when the tide is lower, even really small drains will attract them too, and definitely outside turns with pluff mud shelves/plateaus next to the grass. When there is high water, that’s where the bait and flounder will mostly be (and not as high water the dropoffs of those shelves). Often, the water will be eddying and flowing more slowly and in opposite direction to the strong tidal current. Floated/suspended live bait works great there. Mud minnows in early and late seasons, finger mullet when they are everywhere.
stratoyak - right on point
It was last 11/2hr of outgoing tide and just like you said I always have the best luck fishing for flounder at the small marsh drains
2013 caught a door mat 24 incher beginning of October - my personal best in the same spot
It helps me to keep a log book and even to look at it now and then
Capt Dave