I suspect flounder fishing is about to become epic, best in ages. You know it, I know it, everyone knows that the biggest and best flounder fighting is about to occur. The tide, moon phase and environment couldn't be better for it.
I suspect flounder fishing is about to become epic, best in ages. You know it, I know it, everyone knows that the biggest and best flounder fighting is about to occur. The tide, moon phase and environment couldn't be better for it.
captdownshift wrote: I suspect flounder fishing is about to become epic, best in ages. You know it, I know it, everyone knows that the biggest and best flounder fighting is about to occur. The tide, moon phase and environment couldn't be better for it.
That's why I'm going squirrel hunting. No flounder to be found there... 
When flounder go low, squirrels go high?
I could make some pie. The ice cream pie someone here posted sounds nice with the warm weather.
Did I miss a fresh batch of Flounder somewhere 'round these parts?
In reply to EastCoastMojo:
No, just reading the news of the past 72 hours, checking the moon phase, tides, tea leaves and predicting near future catches.
I found some that are circling the drain! Must of been a good day of fishing for somebody.
Bit of heat and these guys should be good to go.
In reply to NOHOME:
Whoa a left handed and a right handed flounder
Somebody put a ruler on those small fry! The legal limit here in VA is 18.5 inches!
"#fakenews"
Ok, I have a serious question about catching flounder. They are one of my favorite fish to eat and I love to catch them. Unfortunately I must travel hundreds of miles to catch them. I usually catch them as an incidental species while fishing for redfish in Louisiana. I want to go after flounder as my target. Virginia and North Carolina are where I would like to go, I just need to know when and where. Can anyone help me?
In reply to pilotbraden:
Chinteteague VA or Cape Charles VA are the answer.
In actual fish news the bluefin are starting to show up here and they should start biting in the next week or so.
captdownshift wrote: In reply to pilotbraden: Chinteteague VA or Cape Charles VA are the answer.
Chincoteague*
But he's right, summer time anywhere from Assa/Chincoteague down through Wilmington is great for flounder. Inshore, hit the ledges in skinny-ish water (channels) on the outgoing tide change when it's flushing all the bait out to deeper water, or just when it's turning out in the flats and not flowing too fast. Liveline, or multi-hook dropper rigs should be productive, but you need to be careful w/ the dropper rigs so that you don't disturb the fish w/ the sinker before the bait/hook presents.
crappy gear, rented boat, not enough time, but we still came home with dinner. this was a few years ago in the Chincoteague flats:
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Ooh yummy flounder...
In reply to bluej:
Back when my shoulder worked as designed, a clouser minnow on an intermediate fly line was deadly on them.
Thanks for the advice, I am going fishing and sailing in August, Chincoteague may be the destination.
I predict the flounder are going to be yuuuge! They are going to be the biggest and best flounder in the world! We are going land so much flounder that we'll get tired of floundering!
Has this flounder been rigged???
This flounder has been cooked up!
The study “uncovered widespread seafood fraud across the United States... In one of the largest seafood fraud investigations in the world to date, DNA testing confirmed that one-third, or 33 percent, of the 1,215 fish samples collected by Oceana from 674 retail outlets in 21 states were mislabeled, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines.” Once again Los Angelinos had the most concern: “Oceana found seafood fraud everywhere it tested, including mislabeling rates of 52 percent in Southern California, 49 percent in Austin and Houston, 48 percent in Boston (including testing by The Boston Globe), 39 percent in New York City, 38 percent in Northern California and South Florida, 36 percent in Denver, 35 percent in Kansas City (MO/KS), 32 percent in Chicago, 26 percent in Washington, D.C., 21 percent in Portland (OR) and 18 percent in Seattle.”
Edit...
I thought this was going to be a thread where we lie about street races we have won against faster cars.
HappyAndy wrote:
Looks suspiciously like a Russian rig...
In reply to NOHOME:
It's a major problem, I have a relative who is a federal officer in the field.
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