But here goes…
I have never gone gigging, but I was wondering if anybody has ever tried gigging the same flats that you would typically wade for tailing reds. I’ve never seen a flounder while walking the flats, but again I have never walked them at night, so I was just wondering. Understandably, you could only walk them when the tide was high enough to flood them, but would flatties even come up there?
Thanks!
I’ve seen small flounder before, but it’s not the norm in my experience. Then again, I’m not looking down much either. I’m constantly trying to scan as much area in front of me as I can for signs of fish.
My guess is that it would be productive close to the edges or where creeks dump onto the flats. Most flounder we find are in and around structure or some sort of ambush point. That includes grass. I’ve stuck plenty in the grass when the water got high but we didn’t want to stop gigging. Way up in the grass.
You should go with us one night.
I would love to. I guess I could just walk out there one night and satisfy my own curiousity, but I’m inherently lazy!
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I find just as Sailfish says. MY most productive areas are the 3 feet beside the structure line. 2inches to 6 feet on these lines is where I get 96 percent of my flounder. Any time you have a grass line or beach or any bank and there is a cut in where it floods a little tributary kinda area during the tide change. They are also my hot spots.
With relation to the flats… The only problem I would see is you wouldnt know where to look as to much areas to choose from. It would be a guess… I bet you they are in there, but all over and wth no logic. I would stick to open areas and work the grass lines with in the flats if you wanted to. also its hard to see behind a bush of grass. Youre always having to turn the light all kinda crazy ways. If you can find the channel that feeds the flat and its shallow enough to wade, that might be good at dead low and on the rise probably before the flat flooded. they might stage up there.
Look for clear water, structure, current, and bait. Find these and you should have flounder close
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