I took my son to a tide pool on Sullivan’s this past saturday morning to get some bait before dawn. We saw easily 30+ flounder, many keeper sized, just hanging out right on the edge of the pool, some even halfway out of the water. My 4 year old was able to just pick them up barehanded. I’m pretty new to saltwater…is this normal? or did we just stumble into something?
I’d think you just stumbled on something! Never heard of that before. To bad you didn’t have a gig with you! You could have laid them out on a picnic table or the bow of a boat and been a hero, on this site!
PS: Don’t ever tell anyone where that pool is, or next time you go there it will be filled with jon boats with lights on them 
I’ve seen that in an impoundment before, where we could noodle them. Pretty cool 
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i may have had a landing net in the car… that’s basically a gig, right?
all i know is it made my son’s day, and he’s already asking when we can go back.
Maybe low oxygen level in the hot water of the tidal pool?
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Originally posted by RLSMaybe low oxygen level in the hot water of the tidal pool?
“Don’t tell fish stories where people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” Mark Twain
low oxygen my guess, too, have seen mullet skimming surface wit mouths open in hot, shallow water.
“Don’t tell fish stories where people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” Mark Twain
You were supposed to yell, “Jubilee, Jubilee!”
I’ve seen flounders on the surface, just finning themselves along. I read that they spend a lot of their time in various levels of the water column. Cool that your child could catch one barehanded!
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I’m gonna wait on Barbawang to weigh in
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I wouldn’t say a word about it and go back with a big cooler!
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I believe high heat and low oxygen lead to these crabs leaving the water too. There were a couple dozen on the edge of this pool. Sorry for the bad camera work, trial and error.
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I want to catch them all
They might just be after all those Fiddlers!
had the cooler in the car…
low oxygen definitely explains them half out of the water and easily caught, I’d like to know why they went in there in the first place… then barbawang will rent a backhoe and attempt to recreate this phenomenon.
better to be lucky than good, that’s one heck of a cooler!.. don’t think flounder have game fish status here, so there wouldn’t be any gear restrictions on their capture. just my interpretation, having a hard time finding a list of SC gamefish species. I know trout and reds are, but that might be it?
haven’t weighed in lately P, but i’m probably right around 172#
sc slim bring sup a good tpoic on jubilee…somebody read this out loud to PeaPod please…
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Jubilee is a biblical Old Testament term. there for you people owe an apology to the resident Bible expert
“Enough hijacking, this is a major thread”
And who would that be Pea:question:
Troublemaker says what
“Enough hijacking, this is a major thread”
Now trouble makers are being persecuted![:0] When will the madness stop:smiley: